Quick Add (Ctrl+Alt+M)

You have just worked out how a term should be translated for this client. Quick Add records that decision without breaking your rhythm: it appends one row to the active bank’s terminology.md and puts you back in the segment.

How to use

1. In the Trados editor, select the source text you want to capture. (Optional — the whole source segment is used if you select nothing.)
2. Press Ctrl+Alt+M, or right-click and choose Add to SuperMemory.
3. Fill in the dialogue:
   • Source term — pre-filled from your selection. The label names your project’s source language.
   • Target term — pre-filled from the target selection if you made one.
   • Notes — why, or when it applies. This is the part that will matter in six months.
   • Save as raw note — puts the text in reference/ instead of the table, for when the decision is not settled enough to be a row.
   • Also append to active translation prompt — adds the same pair to the TERMINOLOGY table in your active prompt, so it takes effect on the very next Ctrl+T.
4. Click Add.

The row lands in whichever bank is selected in the toolbar dropdown. To capture into a different bank, switch first.

What gets written

One row, appended to the table in terminology.md:

| fiche | plug | client | Only in the electrical sense; elsewhere "sheet" |

Successive additions accumulate in the same table rather than scattering, so the bank stays something you can read start to finish.

The Scope column is filled in as client, which is the safe default — it means “true for this client”. If a decision later turns out to hold for other clients too, move the row to the _shared bank so every client gets it. Move rather than copy, or the two drift apart.

Note

If the bank’s terminology.md has no table yet — which is the case for a bank converted from the old layout, where terminology arrives as prose — Quick Add creates one under a Quick-added terms heading at the end of the file. Your converted content is left alone.

Raw notes

Tick Save as raw note and the text goes to the bank’s reference/ folder instead, as a plain Markdown note.

Use it when the knowledge is not yet a decision: “fiche can mean either sheet or plug depending on context — check with the client”. A table row states a rule, and a rule you are not sure about is worse than a note that says you are not sure.

Nothing reads reference/ automatically. When you have settled the question, write the row yourself.

Review what you capture

Quick Add writes what you type, with no AI step in between. That is the point — but it also means a typo in the target term becomes a rule the AI follows.

Open terminology.md now and again (📂 Open folder in the toolbar) and read down the table. That is a two-minute job for a bank of a hundred rows, and it is the whole reason terminology is kept as a table rather than as a folder of files.

Related

• SuperMemory — how a bank is structured
• Active Prompt — the prompt Quick Add can also append to
• Keyboard Shortcuts — the full list