Ghost Review Rework?

I’ve been using Bunpro for around 6 months at this point now, and have gone from basic N5 knowledge from Genki, all the way to over halfway through N4 grammar (117/176), in preparation for the JLPT N4 in a few weeks. So take this from the perspective of a semi-beginner.

In this period of time, I’ve had an extraordinary amount of reviews every day as I kept getting ghost reviews over and over, and never quite understood the point of them, especially as I would just memorize the prompt and not effectively memorize the grammar point. As of a few weeks ago, every day I’ve been resetting all ghost reviews, and I’ve found that my retention has actually improved, and my amount of reviews has obviously decreased.

I believe it would be much better to mark the entire grammar point as a ghost/leech, and give different prompts instead of the same one on repeat to avoid the “memorizing answer” issue instead of the grammar point.

Does anyone else have a similar experience to me? Or alternative experiences? I’d love to hear if I’m wrong about ghost reviews or doing something incorrectly!

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You can change how often ghosts are created by going to Log in - Japanese Grammar Explained | Bunpro and changing the “Ghost Reviews” setting.
AFAIK there is no way to make ghosts show different sentences each time, so you’re either stuck with the sentence you missed or not having ghosts.

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I just noticed this right after I wrote this post

HUGE FACEPALM :sob:

However the recommendation to change ghost reviews still stands, I’d love that, but will turn them off for now.

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Saying again that minimal should be the default setting.