Understanding Vocab Reviews

Maybe I am missing something, but I would like to better understand how to utilize vocab reviews in bunpro. I’ve started using them more but there are some gaps I think need to be addressed or I am missing some UI somewhere:

  • How do I force my reviews to all be translation or all be fill-in? Somehow through a combination of using web and mobile to add new vocab reviews, I have ended up with a mix. I see the ability to set the review style on all of my reviews (e.g., manual input vs flashcard), but not the ability to set or filter by the answer type (e.g., fill-in vs translation).

  • It would be wonderful if I could selectively add both question types for a vocab (translate + fill-in) and track them separately. Ability to produce is a different muscle from the ability to recall!

  • It is a shame I don’t see a way to easily add new vocab on mobile. On web I can add the next 20 vocab from a deck, and in the order I want to learn (frequency) but there is seemingly no equivalent on mobile.

  • The lack of syncing for furigana settings between web and mobile is painful. Are furigana synced in the backend at all or just in a cookie / session storage? It feels tedious to have to hide them over and over, and seemingly multiple times on mobile ( I don’t think it remembers even between reviews on mobile)

Thanks for this awesome product, I look forward to every update, but I would love to hear if these features already exist or if they are planned because they would be huge quality of life improvements for me!

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Not really sure about how to set all to one type or the other, but I am here to amplify the annoying furigana inconsistencies.

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Sadly we can’t do both fill in and translate for each, but heres how to set all of the deck from one to the other:

  1. Deck settings
  2. Select either manual input or cloze
  3. Click the change all to (whatever you selected) button

That is to switch between manual / close but is there an equivalent to switch between fill-in and translate? I have to manually change each one as it comes up if they get added as the wrong kind

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Manual = translate
Cloze = fill in

not sure why they have different names lmao

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Is it not two different things? image

I mean the ability to change between the answer being in english or in japanese, rather than the review type. Which I can set manually, but I can’t figure out how to bulk set.

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WOW you’re right! Setting it to manual in that dialog changed everything to translate. I feel like the UI here is extremely confusing and actually changing two underlying settings.

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Right? :sob: