Feature Request: Cram by lesson(s)

Bunpro
#1

I use the cram feature a lot.

Often I review a new grammar point, add to reviews, and then cram that grammar point in order that I fully understand it, with all the nuances as some of the grammar points have a lot of variations to practise like Te form.

It’s not easy to use the cram screen very precisely. It can be difficult to pick out the grammar point that I’ve just learnt; especially when getting to the later lessions in a level; for my N5 grammer points I have to look over 100+ items.

It would help if there was an option to cram directly from a grammar point.

On the cram screen it would help if you could filter by a lesson e.g. N5 Lesson 6. This would help me find grammar points more easily.

Additionally the option to cram by lesson would be good, though if you could filter to a lesson, the select for cram feature could be used more easily.

TDLR: please could you make the cram screen a bit better, thanks

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#2

I fully 100% agree with your points and one of the rare downsides of Cram, but until the feature gets tweaked you can just ctrl+f and search for the point instead of combing through the lists of points, if you’re not already doing that!

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#3

yeah, I completely fail with that way of searching, by the time I’ve faffed about with changing language to hiragana on windows10, I’ve generally forgotten what it was that I was studying… also some of the points have abbreviations so might not be clear exactly what to search for… but yeah I’ll try that in future.

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#4

There is a 99.9999999% chance there’s a better way to switch between languages but this is what I do - install Japanese font on Windows, then in the program of my choice I hit alt+shift, this will show an “A” on the bottom right and then I just left-click it once to switch it to hiragana. Now in that program whenever I hit alt+shift it will automatically go back to english and then back to hiragana. You’ll have to repeat this “A” process for any new things you use like Word, Anki, etc. but it takes literally 2 seconds so you get the gist. Probably a horrible explanation, let me know if I need to explain it better! Either way that should help you cut down your time switching languages

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#5

Google “Google Japanese IME” and simply install it (for some unknown reason I could not install the windows IME on neither 2 different working laptops or on my private PC) so I had to find something new.

  • similar to born2peepees answer, the standard combination to switch between IMEs is “Windows + Spacebar”. You can also always just left click the IME icon on the bottom right.
  • “Alt + CAPS Lock” turns on hiragana. Doing it a second time Katakana. It will also provide you with most used kanji for your hiragana input. Example 人 or 日 for ひ. With “Tab” you can scroll through some more suggestions.

Hope this helps if you can’t get the Windows IME running like me.

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