If you want to run a report on any of the following (to see what you have done), those are described here.
If you clicked on "Start work on a new language", either when A-Z+T opens, or after "Change to another database", this "Add Words" task is the first (and only, until you complete it) task you will see.
If there are entries in your database that haven't been filled out yet, you will see an entry field here, where you can type consonants and vowels appropriate for the word.
An "Add remaining CAWL entries" button is present if you are missing any of the 1700 tags of the Comparative African Word List (CAWL). If this is there, you typically want to start by pressing it. A-Z+T will fill in entries with glosses, lexical category and CAWL tags, but no citation forms —this is what you will add in the field provided.
If you have entries with glosses corresponding to CAWL entries, but which aren't marked as CAWL entries, this button will add those fields for you (rather than add another entry, and duplicate glosses).
The "Add a Word" button allows you to add one form and glosses for any word you like. It is only present after the CAWL is done.
Once you have collected a word list, you can record those words here. These recordings become another form of the word (citation/plural/imperative) forms in your LIFT database.
This tasks walks users through the sorting of words according to their vowels, one slice of data at a time, one vowel check at a time.
Where new vowels are found (or rather, an existing vowel is found to be more than one vowel), this process will result in new groups, but not change how the words are written. That is done in the vowel letters analysis task.
This tasks walks users through the sorting of words according to their consonants, one slice of data at a time, one vowel check at a time.
Where new consonants are found (or rather, an existing consonant is found to be more than one consonant), this process will result in new groups, but not change how the words are written. That is done in the consonant letters analysis task.
This is this task where you will likely spend most of your time, sorting different words in different frames, asking which sound the same in a given context, and which sound different.
One of these frames is often isolation!
Once you have sorted words by tone, you can record each of those words in each of those frames here. These recordings are stored in LIFT examples, not in word forms as above. Because of this, if you use an isolation frame, you may have isolation recordings in two places.