:bunpro_icon: Feedback - Suggested Improvements/Feature Request

[Rukishou]

An optional feature to have a medium difficulty choice between outright failure and success that only sets that item back maybe half of what a failure normally would could be nice for those of us using flashcard style and a larger level down on failed items (i.e. halve or go down 3 steps instead of 1)?

Although if FSRS is still on the docket (which I hope it is ) this additiom might be unnecessary. Any update on that btw?

Edit: Just remembered another idea I had which is an option to swap sample sentence during reviews without having to reveal the answer, say if there’s too many words you don’t yet know, making it difficult to actually get the reading practice, or just to get practice with multiple sentences for items you feel you could need it.

[bunnypro]

When two vocab items have the same form (look exactly the same), could we have a hint to note that there is another meaning?

It’s totally OK for the hint to be shown after submitting an answer, so then you can undo and reattempt the question based on your updated knowledge that there is another word on the platform that looks exactly the same.
An alternative would be to always show furigana for such words, but then sometimes there are cases where even the furigana are the same.

As an example, I’ve been getting bamboozled by these two for the last several months, possibly years:

When I finally decided to search for them on the platform to find out why I was continually mixing them up, it turns out that they look exactly the same, so it was total fluke if I got it right and caused considerable confusion along the way.

[Alerean]

@bunnypro

so it was total fluke if I got it right and caused considerable confusion along the way.

angry upvote

[Jake]

Great suggestion! I’ve implemented this and it will be out with the next release.

[bunnypro]

Great, thanks! Looking forwards to seeing the new multi-colored array

[Alerean]

I’m not familiar with FSRS, but a google search shows it to be very interesting. I find myself resetting vocab words all the time because based on the SRS level I know I don’t know the word as well as the system thinks I do (and it’ll be a waste of time to let it wait so long to hit me with them again). Lately I’ve been trying to use the -half or full reset settings to make this a bit less tedious. The setting hasn’t been saving but hopefully that fix is live soon.

Edit: My biggest issue is with jap → eng translation reviews. I’m generally quick to remember Kanji which is normally something I’m happy about. But with these cards it’s like a cheat code…I don’t really know the word at all and if I heard it in the wild I wouldn’t recognise it, so it feels misleading sometimes. Having it be eng → jap would fix that but doesn’t help with the intervals.

[Latsu]

Any way we can get the updated Vocab info/hints on the review mode (on the iOS App) like the website version? I’d sure like to get more granular information (especially for synonyms) when I’m still learning/reviewing vocabulary.

It looks like the main issue I’m having is the lack of full-hints for vocab sentences in the review mode.

Screenshots to show what I’m seeing.

Website on Desktop:

App on iOS (Lacks hints, only has translation):

[C77A1]

Small QOL request; would it be possible to move the “exit review mode” hotkey away from the “0” key? It’s quite easy to accidentally hit it when going for “-” for a カタカナ long vowel.

[Latsu]

One thing I like about WankiKani is its ‘apprentice limit’ option. It might be nice to have the option to disable 'Learn' mode if you have 'n' items in the 'beginner' SRS level. Maybe per-deck, global, or per grammar/vocab categories? Just a way to try to avoid being overwhelmed by biting off more than you can chew.

[GEN]

Yeah- it was exciting for the iOS app to release, but I’ve been waiting for this issue to be fixed to be able to use it.

Although my default hint level setting is the maximum for vocab, every piece of vocab appears by default with not even the translation:

[Zeric]

I’d like to suggest having all grammar reviews, at the Beginner level, be as close to their standard forms as possible. At least, for N5 and N4.

There are many times where I am learning a new grammar and struggling with just remembering that grammar’s base form just to be hit with multiple tack-ons/conjugations on the very first review and it becomes even harder to learn/remember the base form. Which makes it even harder and frustrating to try and remember the base while also trying to remember the rules of that review’s added conjugations/tack-ons.

[Alerean]

I was just about to suggest that a tooltip should show when hovering over the various progress bars on the website Dashboard, because the colours can get a bit confusing. After a while I noticed that there is a tooltip, but it seems to come up sort of slowly. I feel like it could be a little quicker to appear.

[kvnqs]

As JLPT prep, I want to cram some grammar for which I have low accuracy. For this, I have the following suggestions.

• In the “Progress” modal dialogue, clicking on “Accuracy” and “Ghosts” could make make the grammar items be displayed in a sorted manner. They’d be then sorted by accuracy and ghost counts in an descending / or ascending order (can be indicated via an arrow). Clicking on “Item” could restore the default sorting.

• In the /cram page, ideally there should also be a section to view learned grammar points by their accuracy. They could be maybe displayed in intervals of 10%, so that selecting one interval adds all items which fall into that interval.

• I was thinking it might be nice to somehow filter the cram items via JLPT level, progress level, accuracy, ghost count etc. Could be via some checkboxes on the right side and sliders. So people can add all learned items to the cram list and then filter them based on their preferences. Initially I had the idea that is definitly overkill, but maybe helpful for some users, to use some query language to specify all crammed items; Something like: type=grammar AND jlpt=n3,n4 AND accuracy<=70 would select all N3 / N4 grammar items with an accuracy of less than 70% .

[discopatrick]

My feedback today is simply this: thanks for making an app that makes me want to come back each day and do my reviews. I’ve become quite addicted to it!

If I had to guess a reason why I enjoy using the app over ways I could learn grammar and vocab, I’d say it’s the variety of the example sentences. Each new sentence I encounter is another little puzzle to solve… can I remember the conjugation/particle rules for this word in this context?

If I get it wrong then I’m quite happy to review the excellent grammar point pages, and drill that sentence in ghost reviews over the next few days until I remember the pattern.

On the other hand, if I get it right first time then it’s really rewarding and satisfying to see the green text pop up.

[Alerean]

What areas of content does “listening mode” work with at the moment? Doesn’t seem to change anything for me on either grammar or vocab reviews (no audio plays, review comes up with all Japanese text).

I’ve been playing around with jpdb.io lately and it’s proven useful to test listening. I’m hoping to do the same here since I like the fill in style of reviews here more.

[nikuotoko]

I have been thinking that the main problem with cloze mode is that you don’t get to recognise or read the Kanji. It would be great if there was a setting where reviews automatically switched over from type-in to read-and-rate-self mode, so that as you level up a given word or grammar point you get to switch to more natural input rather than just (Romaji) output.

You could tie it to the bit where you shift from Beginner to Intermediate on a given review, perhaps.

[nikuotoko]

Oops, looks like the post I made was already suggested - I second this wholeheartedly

[Uplifted2472]

Suggestion: please unify the color schemes on iOS mobile app and webapp! On the webapp the colors for beginner/adept/seasoned/etc are different than on iOS

[mrnoone]

Will look into this!

[ProjectBluT]

Add the ability to do bookmarked vocab review on iOS application. Currently all bookmarked vocab appear as <title: meaning> and it does not have all of the sections in the special section like on the website.