Easier way to mark vocab as known?

Am pushing for this upgrade to be made a priority internally atm. I am not sure how difficult it is to implement technically, but I believe that it is something that we should definitely have for ease of use going forward.

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@Asher Awesome thanks! Adding my voice to the people waiting on this feature… :slight_smile:

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Thank you so much, I would really appreciate it.

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Just came across this thread when trying to see if this is supported. Any luck this is on the roadmap? I did quite a bit of self study before coming to bunpro would love to be able to quickly mark these off. Thanks! Cc @Asher @veritas_nz

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When the vocab pops up in your learn queue you can scroll down and open up the info on web to find where you can mark it as mastered or to a specific srs level. On mobile web you have to open up the sidebar, and only mark as mastered is available. On the app this isn’t an option during learn, but during reviews or any other time you can adjust srs settings on the info page of a vocab, also true for web versions. You can also go into decks and find words to mark as mastered

I also knew a decent amount of vocab before bunpro, around 3-4k. But instead of marking then as mastered, I review them in sentences for context. I often found words I thought I “knew” to have another nuance or use i didn’t know and about. It also sped up my reading

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Just thinking out loud here but it may now be possible to achieve this with a little bit of jank using the custom deck feature. If you export your Anki data and then import it into Bunpro as a custom deck and then mark the deck as mastered.

I wonder if/when FSRS is added to Bunpro it may also be possible to streamline this and import the FSRS review data from Anki at the same time and thus maintain it in Bunpro if someone wants to fully migrate. No idea how easy or hard this would be to implement nor am I sure how high the demand is for that specifically though.

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They didn’t mention using anki so I didn’t even think of that, but it’s probably a good assumption. And that would definitely work pretty well as a workaround for mastering a large quantity at once. Or even setting that deck to have learning items at a certain higher srs level too

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Yeah that’s an interesting workaround I may give that a go thanks for that! And yeah as for re-reviewing I definitely am only going to be marking things that are really solid. Definitely will be re-reviewing some things. The example sentences are really nice.

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After looking a little into for a bit I can throw together a script that should be able to do what I want. I can scrape the Japanese/English/Id for each vocab entry grab the Ids for all the entries I want to mark as known and then just hit the API with each Id.

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Um I haven’t been on Bunpro for very long (like less than a week), so excuse my post if it isn’t helpful. Maybe try marking it as mastered after you look at it when it’s introduced.

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Hopping in here a bit late, but have a tip.

If you have the JMDict ID for the items you already know, creating a Custom Deck to then mark off items would be a lot more accurate.

Remember to turn on Bunpro Beta in the Account Settings to access the Custom / Community Decks.

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To see which N2 items I’m currently missing, I imported my current Anki cards (around 8000) and wanted to mark all of them known, so only the ones I currently don’t know would be left over. But I couldn’t find an option to mark the whole deck as known/mastered; did I miss it?

I then tried to at least mark a unit as known via the three dots and “know all”, but nothing happens. Am I doing something wrong?

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I then tried to at least mark a unit as known via the three dots and “know all”, but nothing happens. Am I doing something wrong?

If you check back in a few mins does it show as mastered?

When I mark a whole unit as “mastered” I’ve noticed that it takes a couple minutes for that to show up in the UI. (I suspect on the backend it starts a separate job to do the work while leaving the UI responsive and that job takes a couple mins to finish updating the database)

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^This.

The Decks pages are definitely a part of our UI that we’re wanting to fix in 2025.

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the number one issue to me regarding the deck is the lack of sorting by SRS level option.

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Thanks for your answer! I suspected that, too, because it also took some time after the import for everything to show up correctly. So I tried waiting for up to 20 minutes several times after clicking “know all” from the unit drop down menu, but still nothing happens. It DID work on the very first unit, though.

Another person here wishing I could look at a list of vocab and mark all the ones I already know as mastered (rather than doing it one at a time as they come up).

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Hello,
Is there a way to disable the Grammar reviews? i.e. for my Review dropdown on the main page to only show my Vocab reviews count.

I already use split reviews, i.e. clicking on the dropdown shows me Grammar & Vocab split - but wondering if I could just turn off the Grammar ones as I am purely focusing on vocab these days. I didn’t seem to find that option. Thanks!

Hi!

I guess you could just remove the grammar deck(s) you may have in your learning queue for the time being. You can always add it/them later on.

HTH!

No currently there’s no easy way to pause only grammar reviews. I suppose you could go into each grammar deck and “remove” from reviews for each unit. Like “lesson 1” will have the 3 dots to the right, click and remove by bulk one unit at a time. It won’t reset progress, just remove them from reviews. When you add them back it’ll be from where you left off

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