Thanks for the immediate answer! Can’t wait for the update now …
I already did that, but since im shortsighted, I should preferably just get some glasses in the meantime 
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Just got what looks to be a fairly major app update on Android. Colors are nicer, main-screen graphs are nicer, and everything loads faster. Love the progress; thanks for releasing updates that are good and not bad.
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I would like to suggest two new features!
DAYS OFF
- Allow us to set which days are considered “days off”. It would work like an automatic vacation mode that triggers on and off on the set day. Preserving your streak.
- Recently I have started taking Sundays off from my Japanese learning. I found that I can still maintain the pace I wanted without getting burned out.
- That being said, I don’t want to lose my streak. So the current process is to manually enable vacation mode every time.
UI SETTINGS PER PLATFORM
- Allow us to have a UI settings per platform.
- I would rather have a bigger font when using Bunpro on my tablet. Right now when I change on the tablet it changes for the browser as well.
- It would be nice if Bunpro could detect the platform and apply the settings per platform.
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I would like for the review button to be split in two again. Maybe a setting? As one button I find it very confusing.
Best
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I create a lot of my own notes in lessons, but at the moment there is no option to link between them. I would like to request a feature to add custom hyperlinks in notes, to both other Bunpro lessons, and to external sites.
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As an update after a week of doing this:
- I would estimate my level at N2 kanji-wise and somewhere between N4 and N3 (probably closer to N4) for grammar and vocab and it can be tricky to parse the nuance hints, although with enough focus and looking up words here and there with yomichan I can usually parse them eventually. It does slow my reviews considerably to do this though, and if I’m not ready to dedicate a lot of time to reviews I end up switching to English to speed things up.
I don’t think that’s an issue per-se, writing good hints is hard, doing it in very simple Japanese would be even harder.
I do think that it would be great to have Bunpro automatically modulate the hint level based on SRS though, for instance defaulting to Japanese for high SRS items. This way I can go through my reviews faster for new items (which are always the bulk of my reviews naturally), but I can take the time to think a little more for advanced items I should know well. And this way my overall review session time doesn’t explode.
- A lot of the time the grammar/vocab description hint alone is not enough to really figure out what I need to answer, so I want to check the translation to get a better idea of what I’m supposed to say, so I would like for the hint progression to be:
“Japanese nuance” → “partial translation” → “full translation” → “English nuance”
The idea being that I think that “Japanese nuance” + “partial translation” should be enough to disambiguate the vast majority of cases, while “Japanese nuance” + “English nuance” doesn’t bring anything new if I understood the Japanese version correctly and it forces me to “cheat” by looking at the nuance hint translation before committing to an answer.
But as it is I don’t believe it’s possible to do so, I would prefer if in the settings I could completely customize the order of the hints (for instance using drag’n’drop) instead of having only two pre-baked orders.
- On average I find it a lot easier to understand the Japanese hints for vocab than for grammar, but I think that’s not entirely surprising: it’s a lot more difficult to describe grammatical constructions generically than a word which (usually) has a specific meaning. As such the existing settings for hint levels being split for grammar and vocab makes a lot of sense and should be kept that way IMO.
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Created a ticket internally for this!
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Definitely something that’s on the table/under consideration.
We’ve gotten this feedback on more than one occasion, and it makes sense for sure
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I noticed that the [adjective] + なさそうだ grammar point is not in the reviews. I think that it is a common enough grammar point that it should be included in the reviews.
https://www.gokugoku.app/japanese-grammar/na-sa-soo-japanese-grammar
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Suggestion:
Add other popular books like: New Kanzen or give me the ability to.
I’m currently studying at a popular language school in Tokyo and when we got to N3 we went from Mina, to New Kanzen N3 and 日本語の文型と表現 55
These books are pretty sparse on actual explanations especially in English (just like Mina) but full of examples and questions/quizzes.
I’d like to add tags to search or add them to a custom list (like I do in Anki) but for now I just bookmark the grammar I’m interested in and mark the chapters/section as a custom note.
Making a review/cram for my test next week would be much easier if I could specify the book/chapters I need, etc…
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Just a quick request to be able to set furigana by review type (Vocab or Grammar).
I find I often end up remembering Vocab by the shape of the kanji, so often end up being able to understand words but not read them. Being able to have all my vocab cards have furigana would be helpful; but at the same time, I prefer NOT having furigana on my grammar sentences so I can use them as broader reading practice.
Thanks as always!
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I’d like to suggest two features for the vocabs.
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On the dashboard you can change "Your Progress"between grammar and vocab. It would be great if this was also possible for the JLPT progress. Or maybe show the progress of the active vocab deck on the dashboard. It is a bit cumbersome to always go into the decks to see your progress (For N5 for example).
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In a vocab deck itself. There is the marker on every vocab in which SRS state it is. It would be very useful if you could filter out the ones that are already in the SRS progress. It would be much easier to go through the decks to see which vocabs I already know but which aren’t in the SRS or marked as mastered yet.
Thanks
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Feature request: separate batch sizes for vocab and grammar.
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you can change the batches for vocab and grammar in the deck settings. I have 2 for grammar but 4 for vocab.
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Oh, I didn’t know there are settings outside the settings page.
Thank you!
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Added linking to Notes on the website! Hope this serves your purposes 
Let me know if there are any issues or tweaks you feel should be made.
Support in the app will be coming soon too.
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Hello, would it be possible to add a new review style that mimics the JLPT test questions? For example, instead of typing in the answer with various hints provided, provide no hints and 4 very similar grammar points in which the user must select the correct one.
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I’ve tested it and it works perfectly, thanks!
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On the Web version I’ve been doing reviews with the English translation off. Sometimes I use the iphone app and the other day I was mucking around with the app settings and switched the Hide Translations toggle off, and then back on. This works for the app ok but now on the web it is showing the english translation. The app setting does not seem to control it and there isn’t a similar option on the web settings. Seeing the translation is really annoying when I’m trying to just read the japanese.
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I’d like to be able to use yomichan on the content → grammar page. Could this be implemented?
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