:bunpro_icon: Feedback - Suggested Improvements/Feature Request

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#4077

Thanks for bringing this up. We’d definitely like to take a closer look if there are examples that seem off.

If you happen to run into any specific sentences/items, the feedback button on the review page is still the best route for this kind of thing, since it lets us jump directly to the exact content and track it internally. General observations can be helpful, but concrete examples make it much easier for us to investigate and implement changes where needed.

As for the hints being mismatched, it looks like you are using the app when this issue is happening.

You may be pulling from some old data, which would cause you to see mismatched hints. On the app, if you go to: Settings-> General → (scroll down to the bottom) Re-Sync Data → Re-Sync All, you should download current hint data and shouldn’t experience any more issues.

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#4078

Could we have a feature where you can bookmark example sentences you like?

I have a routine of writing down example sentences I like on paper and read them out aloud everyday. These are usually sentences I made a mistake with or those that contains constructs I found useful. I found out that this helps with verbal output a lot.

The added benefit of having it directly on Bunpro would be that I can just listen to a continuous stream of audio, which helps with listening. Would be very useful to do on commute, when I don’t want to hold up my phone and type in words.

Some feature ideas:

  • Add a “Add bookmark” button (a star icon?) to every example sentence both under:
    • the vocab/grammar points, and
    • the SRS interface, when you review the sentence.
  • Add a “My Bookmarked Sentences” page where you can see all your bookmarked sentences.
    • BONUS: You can play the audios of the sentences as if they are songs in a spotify playlist. You should be able to shuffle them or play them in the reverse chronological order.
      • On the mobile app, this should keep playing even if you lock your phone or switch to a different app.
  • Add a SRS mode called “Translation Exercise” where you are prompted with the sentence’s English translation, and tries to say the corresponding Japanese sentence. This is also something I routinely do (see the screenshot below) and find it useful as an output practice.

About shuffling audio: we can bias the shuffling algorithm so it prioritizes recently added sentences (kind of like how SRS works).

About translation exercise: It would look something like this.

Front:

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Back:

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There is no hard accept/reject standard, the user decides if they said the sentence reasonably well or missed a huge part of it.

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#4079

@ph3rin

Love this! I take screenshots of sentences I want to remember/use later, and it gets messy keeping track of that 😵‍💫

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#4080

Two related suggestions…

  1. on iOS it’s quite fiddly to actually see today’s reviews completed on the ‘Activity’ graph. You pretty much have to hold your finger halfway off the phone and then your finger is in the way of the numbers that pop up anyway

  2. I would like to more easily see how many reviews I’ve done on the dashboard. It’s by far the most common reason I check the dashboard and it can be tedious to find that information. Making this worse is that swapping between the Activity and Forecast graphs isn’t very smooth on iOS (you have to swipe specific sections of free space :woozy_face:)

#4081

Can we have a button for skipping a card when learning new vocab/grammar?

I’m currently working on N2 vocab deck, even though I have set the deck to sort based on general, but I still encounter some quite archaic words that I would like to learn at a much much later day, not at the start of the deck.

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#4082

On iOS, having an option to just go full audio mode for answering flash cards would be great

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#4083

is there a way to change the order of the bookmarked decks?

My bookmarked decks used to be grouped together by type somehow (like the bunpro ones were together) but since I changed to the beta view, the order got jumbled. I study my cards by deck type, so I frequently use the “my decks” page, but I have quite a few decks bookmarked that I’d prefer not to have to unbookmark. It would be great if I could change the order of my bookmarked decks by myself.

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#4084

I feel like if we had this, I’d have no qualms about dropping Anki completely for vocab study, which would be amazing.

#4085

Hey,
I tried to search for it in the stack of recommendations, but I was wondering if there is any work being done on a cram feature that allows Japanese to English translation of words.

This would be similar to the study/review feature of Translate; however, available in cram. I only suggest this because I prefer to keep my reviews on the default input mode, and would really appreciate a quick cram at the end of the day when I’m lower energy that doesn’t just feel like I’m doing my reviews all over again.

If this has been suggested before, sorry for the redundancy and I hope this gets implemented soon.

Thanks.

#4086

Please make it so that I can click/tap on a unknown word in a sentence and it will give me the English meaning

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#4088

Don’t know if you are using a browser or the mobile app, but a browser plugin named 10ten reader can do exactly that.

#4089

I think what I would like to see in the decks, that beside marking as mastered, it would be nice to be able to set the vocab or grammar card as to any level, beginner, adept etc, so it would still come up but much less frequently.

It would help to more accurately classify the already known material, especially when someone has background knowledge. I would love to review the N5-N3 vocab but it is a hassle with the current bunpro set up.

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#4090

Hello,
I would like to suggest a quality-of-life improvement regarding the batch size when learning new items (Grammar or Vocab).
Currently, the batch size is fixed in the settings. However, it would be amazing to have a dynamic batch size selector right before starting a session.
For example, if I have 7 vocabulary words queued up for the day:
If I’m in a hurry, I might want to learn just 1 item right now.
If I have a bit more time, I might want to select 4 or 5 items for that specific session.
Having an elementary option (like a simple dropdown or slider) on the study page that lets us choose exactly how many items we want to tackle for the upcoming batch—without having to constantly go back into the main settings—would make learning much more flexible and tailored to our daily schedule.
I hope this wasn’t mentioned before…
Thank you for your amazing work on the platform!

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#4091

Adding to @vincent.gyt29’s post, I would like this feature as well to make extra study a bit easier to manage. Say my batch size is 3, and at the end of the day I have the time and energy to learn one more grammar point, I’d like to be able to easily learn one more grammar point. Right now, I have to hand-pick a single grammar point (or vocab item). Vincent’s suggested feature would be very helpful for this.

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#4092

I wish when you hovered your mouse over the 進行状況 at the bottom of your dashboard it would show the intervals for each learning stage, cause I keep forgetting what they are haha

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#4093

Agree with @vincent.gyt29 and @BreadmanNin

I just had a frustrating time trying to figure out how to change my vocab review size settings, and it took me an embarrassingly long time before I just googled it and found a thread about it. Having it hidden in settings after you start a session is counter-intuitive and I never expect to find it there (hence why I keep forgetting it’s there). The first places I look at are area’s like “learn queue settings”, only to realise that’s not for reviews anyway (and also doesn’t change session size…)

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#4094

In the Bunpro summary of vocab entries and also the context hint during reviews, I feel like some words could benefit from some added info. In particular words that are similar to other words, or maybe used far less than another more common word. For example the summary and hints for the words 辞書 and 字引 are similar, but one is significantly less common (though ironically they are both tagged as ‘common’). Which btw I very much doubt. Has anyone here heard someone say 字引 in a conversation?

If you take the time to visit their individual pages you can see the Frequency numbers, but that’s too much clicking and work usually so unless you’re really interested you aren’t going to bother.

I love the feature you added where you can see similar grammar points, and I find myself wishing this was also there for vocab!

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#4095

When creating your own sentences it would be nice to have the option to add audio to the sentences.

#4096

Any form of “output” practice would be nice. Whether it is us inputting full sentences in Japanese when given an English sentence, etc. Any form of output practice would be nice!

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#4097

Is there any possibility of making “mini” versions of the current JLPT mock tests?

I want to practice N1 practice questions, but I rarely have time to sit down for 2 hours straight to do a mock exam. N1 only has 2 sections, so if I want to see my results, I dont have a choice but to do the whole 2 hour reading/language section or 55 minute listening section. However, sometimes I just want to cram and get quick (not instant) feedback.

It would be cool if there was like a “jlpt cram” or “jlpt mini” feature where I could take a shortened version of one of the existing mock tests (I suggest this to reduce workload) or cram random questions (again taken from the existing tests) in particular style (e.g. the star style grammar questions) so that I can do some JLPT practice in a shorter time.

I could see that a downside would be that it then kinda exposes the test answers, but i think if you have a big warning about it, it could be a cool idea.

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