Back to the drawing board

[fallynleaf]

@mel-odica

that is, I was suddenly hit with a million new lessons (this picture was me about 2/3 of the way through) that I couldn’t do in one sitting, and that meant that the next time I sat down to do them, reviews had started stacking up as well.
I haven’t had that until now; I guess it makes sense seeing as the more helpful kanji and vocab suddenly start streaming in at this level. But I got the familiar sinking feeling of ‘you will never catch up if you don’t nip it in the bud SO DO IT ALL NOW’ which is the main reason I guess I conked out on Wanikani in the first place; it just got too overwhelming.

If this is something you struggle with, have you considered trying to tackle the lessons by doing a consistent number of them every day instead of binging them? There’s no harm in having items sitting in your lesson pile! It only becomes a problem if you abuse the reorder script and have accumulated lessons from several levels back.

I do 10-13 lessons every day, and often have 40+ lessons sitting in the pile until I reach the end of the level, but it keeps the keeps the number of reviews down to a manageable level. I generally only have 100-130 reviews spread throughout the entire day, and I level up about once every two weeks, which is perfectly fast enough for me. It’s nice because I know exactly how much time WK will take me to do every day because the consistent lesson schedule means my workload is extremely predictable and I don’t have to deal with huge spikes of reviews.

Someone might have already linked this, but I recommend giving the ultimate guide to WK a read-through if you’ve never looked at it before. Even if you aren’t trying to go fast (I’m not), it’s an incredibly useful resource for how to pace yourself and get the most out of WK without burning out.