When I want to study a new list with tracking off, do I have to erase the previous words one by one by clicking on the "X" on the ride side of them on the bottom of the practice navigation page? Is there a faster way to do it? It seemed a lot easier before

Yes, you currently have to do this. Also, the deletion of those old words isn't saved until you "submit" by hitting "Cram" next to the scratchpad. Also, you can't delete the last word.

We will make this much better.

Hey Nick, when I try to export words into the scrathpad, for some reason only a portion of the words comes up once I click on "Cram" with tracking off. And even before I do that, it takes a really long time to "X" out the words from whatever previous list I was studying. This used to be super easy before but now I can't even use Skritter the way I like

We're planning on making the scratchpad just not remember the words you put in there, so there'll be no need to delete them. That'll be part of some larger changes to that practice nav page.

That sounds good. I have not understood the use of the scratchpad earlier, but with this change it feels logical.