Feedback - Suggested Improvements/Feature Request

[nminer]

Not sure if this has been requested already, but I would love to be able to put specific decks in vacation mode. Or, there are times where I maybe want to focus on a specific deck (limited time, pre-JLPT, etc.), without worrying about reviews piling up in my other decks.

I know that I can do reviews for specific decks by navigating to it, but I find it a bit stressful watching my overall review count getting higher if I am ignoring items from other decks. On the other hand, I also don’t want to resort to resetting a deck and losing all progress on it just to temporarily clear out my review queue.

Wondering if this is something that could potentially be included under Deck Settings?

Thanks!

[ddavo]

Today’s the day again, I have 80 reviews when usually I have less than 30 T.T

[casual]

I suppose one way to average them out manually out would be to just do X reviews today and leave the rest for tomorrow. But of course then you get that stressful counter of unfinished reviews.

With that, an idea (not thought through enough to be called a suggestion):
To have some settings for reviews similar to the learn queue. For example, to set a personal goal of 50 reviews per day, and when you are done, the remaining review counter cosmetically changes to green. You’d be able to do the “extra reviews” and finish all of them, or leave them until the next day with more peace of mind.
It might help people with growing review backlogs to stick to the routine and not get burned out, without messing with vacation mode settings.
I don’t know if it’s a great idea from the SRS effectiveness pov though.

[casual]

FWIW, there is already a small animation for slaying ghosts (on the web), the little ghost in the top right corner flies up and disappears. Pretty fun. I also like that it doesn’t interrupt the review flow, since sometimes there are a lot of ghosts to slay.

[shankarsuresh]

Can I just confirm whether some new grammar points were added to N2 or N3? Just came across this lesson in my learn queue and it is placed in N2 lesson 1, which i thought I completed months ago. It also seems a bit bare, i.e. no audio for example sentences.

Another example would be this.

[Fuga]

Yes, few grammar points have been added! You can read more about the newly added ones here!

[shankarsuresh]

Ah, thank you! I saw that come through and thought it was just non-JLPT items

[NathanBell_Au]

Suggestion to add an option/dropdown to create/display a user note on the review page?

In Anki, I’ll often add user notes to my cards as I’m reviewing, detailing things I’ve learned in addition to the the thing being tested on the card.
It might be a note on a particular grammar point, or kanji, conjugation type, implied nuance, synonym or antonym etc etc, or maybe I’ll reference a previous card if it has some kind of connection to the current one. I kind of ise the cards themselves as a second brain/note taking method

It just helps me to further reinforce the material on the card in a variety of ways instead of just rote memorizing the card.
Thanks!

*Edit:
An example of how I would use it just popped up.
I had a close card where the answer was だけど
In anki, I would list the other applicable Causitive Particles" along with their formality levels and nuances etc.
So when I get that card wrong, I can read through the list and clearly differentiate between each one at a glance.

I do the same with kanji cards.
If I’m constantly getting confused between 2 or 3 different similar-looking kanji, I’ll list all of them on the back, along with their meanings/readings.
It’s easier to recognize and memorize their differences when you can see them side by side.

As some of the grammar points taught here can seem to be interchangeable to a beginner, it’d be nice to be able to have somewhere on the card to make a note of the differences between them etc, or to use this card to highlight and reinforce information taught on a different card.

[Noxsora]

Mobile app now has this update!
ありがとうございました🙏

[Noxsora]

Anki has a ‘bury sibling cards until next day’ option
Which when checked, will never queue more than 1 sentence from each grammar point.
It might be a good way to cut down a scary review stack, like limited ghosts
I think Anki picks which ever sentence was typed first.

[athideus]

Hello,
Have you had a chance to implement this change? I just checked the android app, and it does not reveal the furigana for the vocab word when you click show answer. I have copy and pasted the original request below.

"On the website, while using the Reading question type and Reveal & Grade style answering, when you click the Show Answer button, it will display the Furigana for the vocab/highlighted word. However, the app does not. Instead requiring you to tap on the word to get the Furigana. "

[veritas_nz]

@wct

Are you two getting the confetti animation for Mastering items?
I added this in a while ago, and it should be working.

It doesn’t work on Brave for me in regular mode, but it does in incognito, so I think that’s because of some weird plugin/security behaviour.

[casual]

Sorry, I don’t know, haven’t mastered any items this year.

[scarrera]

Is there a way of editing multiple vocab items at once? If I want to mark something as mastered already the current flow is this:

It would be nice to have an option at the top that enabled a checkbox for each item so I could mark multiple and then confirm them all as mastered!

[scarrera]

For vocab specifically, I think it would be nice to have a grade for how well can you read this and another grade how well can you remember this.

For example:

A. Doing fill-in exercises should indicate how well I know that the word KIND is YASASHII.

B. Doing Translate exercises should indicate how well I can READ the 優しい.

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In my head I know a lot more vocab (優しい, 素敵,簡単, etc) but I probably know more vocab than I can read them.

So developing both the reading and the remembering should count for mastering the vocab.

[ddavo]

I use brave and it works. I have disabled the “Shields” because I thought they were causing some log-in problems.

[stephane]

regarding ghosts.
I have been trying to turn them full on, I think I like it better as I am always afraid of levelling up faster than my actual retention is.

However since they add up quite a bit when the setting is turned on it brought me to think I’d like to have a ghost hunting review session feature so I can enjoy slaying a few of them from time to time rather than wait for them to come at me.

I like the idea to be focused on my weakest points for a tough session but maybe that doesn’t make sense practically regarding learning efficiency, you bunpro devs have thought of these things more than me.

[wct]

@veritas_nz

Are you two getting the confetti animation for Mastering items?

Yep!

[EdBunpro]

@stephane

ghost hunting review session feature

Are you wanting to do ghost reviews before they’re even scheduled for reviews? Or instead just trying to focus on ghosts for a particular session?

If it’s the latter, the feature already exists inside Bunpro. Just hit the lil’ cogwheel during reviews, go to the Queue Order tab and then play with the Sort by Review Category toggle. Should look something like this:

If you’re talking about the former however, I don’t think that’ll ever really become a thing pretty much for the reason you listed at the end. Orrrrr if I’ve gotten this all wrong please tell me!

[lars48792]

Integrating a daily practice heat map would be a nice, e.g. showing each day you’ve missed as red.
I’d also love to have all the stats from the yearly recap available throughout the year, such as hours spent and days accomplished. It would provide a continuous overview of progress and help maintain motivation

edit: in the app. just found it there is a similar feature in the browser, but there it also could get some expansions like showing how many days out of the year you’ve learned (e.g. 160/365).