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Using LingoLark ​

How the extension handles your saved vocabulary day to day—syncing words across devices, and deleting words you no longer want.

How it works ​

When you save a phrase, LingoLark stores the vocab row in your browser using Chrome's local storage. As a guest (not signed in), that's the only copy—it stays on this device. Once you sign in, your words are saved to your account automatically, so they're available on any device or browser profile you sign into; the browser then only keeps the words for the page you're on.

English glosses can be filled in automatically or by hand, depending on your Translation model. See AI Models for LingoLark Cloud, Ollama, Chrome Nano, and manual entry.

Cloud AI is not cloud sync. If LingoLark Cloud is selected, the highlight and prompt go to LingoLark's servers for that gloss—syncing the saved row itself is a separate, always-on thing that happens once you're signed in, regardless of which translation model you use. Ollama and Nano keep those prompts on this machine.

Type it yourself (no AI) is the default translation mode in the extension. Cloud needs a signed-in account and AI credits: new accounts start with 50 free actions, and buying packs is not live yet. Ollama and Nano need their own setup -- see AI Models.

Open the LingoLark toolbar popup (click the extension icon) to see saved-word counts, choose your translation model, and open the side panel for the full list.

Settings live behind the gear icon in the top-right corner of the popup header. Click the gear to open a small menu with Account, which opens a full-page modal inside the popup:

  • The header title changes to Account.
  • The gear is replaced by an X close control.
  • The main popup content is hidden until you close the modal.

Click X to return to the main popup view and the gear icon.

Account holds sign-in and sign-out, your user id, and—only when you are signed in—a Delete your account on the website link.

Cloud sync ​

Signed-in accounts sync automatically—there's no button to press and nothing to remember. Your account in the cloud holds your words; the extension keeps just the words saved from the page you're on in your browser's local storage.

  • Saving, editing, or deleting a word updates your account right away.
  • Loading or refreshing a page, switching tabs or windows, and opening the side panel or popup all fetch that page's words from your account, so words saved on another device show up without signing out and back in.
  • Saving a word you already saved from another page (or device) adds this page to that word instead of creating a duplicate.

Chrome only lets LingoLark see which page a tab is on after you use LingoLark on that tab—for example by clicking its toolbar icon or saving a word there. On a tab you haven't used it on yet, click the toolbar icon to load that page's words.

Signing out removes your account's words from this browser—your account's copy in the cloud is the real one, and signing back in brings them back.

Deleting words ​

To delete a word, click the X on its card in the side panel (or in the web reader's sidebar). A Deleted "…". Undo message appears for a few seconds: click Undo to put the word back exactly as it was. Once it's gone, the delete is permanent.

As a guest, the word is removed from this device. Signed in, it's removed from your account, so other devices signed into the same account lose it too.

Deleting many words at once ​

Signed in, open Vocab on the LingoLark website (your saved-words list):

  • Some words: tick the checkbox next to each word (or the one in the header to select the whole page), click Delete, then confirm. A Deleted N words. Undo message appears for a few seconds.
  • All words in your study language: below the list, click Delete all … words, type yes, delete all words, and confirm. There's no undo for this one.

The extension drops deleted words the next time it refreshes the page's words.

Delete account ​

You delete your account on the LingoLark website, in Settings. In the extension, the Account modal (gear icon → Account) links there when you're signed in.

Deleting your account is permanent. There is no undo.

How to delete ​

  1. Sign in on the LingoLark website and open Settings (or, in the extension popup, gear icon → Account → Delete your account on the website).
  2. Scroll to Delete account and click Delete my account….
  3. Read the warning, then type yes delete my account exactly into the confirmation field.
  4. Click Delete my account to confirm, or Cancel to go back.

The final button stays disabled until the phrase matches exactly. Afterwards the website signs you out, and an installed extension signs out too (right away if a LingoLark tab is open, otherwise the next time you open the side panel or popup).

What it does and does not touch ​

Account deletion removes:

  • Your LingoLark cloud account (sign-in identity).
  • Your synced vocabulary (the account's copy of your saved words).
  • Your AI credit ledger (Cloud action balance).

Account deletion does not remove:

  • The words from your account that are in your browser's local storage on this device right now—the ones saved from the page you're on. They stay, and become guest-mode vocabulary (no longer tied to any account). Words saved from other pages are only in your account, so they're deleted with it.

If you also want to remove the words left on this device, delete them with the X on each card in the side panel. Account deletion leaves the words in this browser's local storage alone (moved to guest mode).

Nothing to restore from ​

Your account is where your words are kept safe, so deleting it deletes them for good, and there's no export to save a copy first. The current page's words in this browser survive as guest-mode vocabulary. Make sure before you confirm. See Your saved words for where your words live.

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