# Been away for a year, trying to get back in **URL:** \ **Category:** WaniKani\ **Created:** [August 23, 2022, 3:07am UTC](https://community.wanikani.com/t/been-away-for-a-year-trying-to-get-back-in/58270 "2022-08-23T03:07:59Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 4
**Author:** ![deliana88](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/wanikanicommunity/user_avatar/community.wanikani.com/deliana88/32/375376_2.png) [@deliana88](https://community.wanikani.com/u/deliana88)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2022, 4:36am UTC](https://community.wanikani.com/t/been-away-for-a-year-trying-to-get-back-in/58270/4 "2022-08-23T04:36:56Z")
I definitely feel where you’re coming from! I took a year off of WK and came back, and spent a lot of time watching anime and movies and reading manga in that year and it really felt like it was a year well-spent on leveling up my Japanese consumption in general and then I decided to come back to WK for the kanji, because… I’m still really bad a remembering kanji. Personally, I didn’t reset, just slowly worked through my pile of old reviews using the “wrap up” button and @Kumirei’s [Wanikani: Review Queue Sizer](https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/420892-wanikani-review-queue-sizer) and @sonarius’s [SRS Reorder Button](https://community.wanikani.com/t/x/41133) scripts to try to take them in chunks and prioritize ones closest to burn first to knock the total down a bit, but I probably should have. Either way, once you get back in the rhythm, how to make it manageable so you can stick with it comes down to managing what makes you lose motivation in the first place. I’m a huge procrastinator, and bad at building “habits” (can’t even manage to brush my teeth at the same time every day, never mind doing WaniKani reviews at predictable hours). Also, I get bored easily, so too many reviews at once and I start getting some wrong just because I start getting annoyed at how long the review session is taking and rush to try to finish quicker. Those 2 things together mean that for me, managing WK comes down to: 1. Trying to do at least 1 WK review session a day, but if I start feeling burnt out, skip a day and don’t feel guilty about it! 2. Stopping new lessons when I start getting too many reviews coming, and using [WaniKani Lesson Filter](https://community.wanikani.com/t/userscript-wanikani-lesson-filter/19023) to alternate kanji and vocab lesson to help drill in the kanji better 3. Managing my “review forecast” so that for the next day I don’t have any more reviews than I feel I can handle (and my bar is really low, since I’m taking it slow and like I said I hate long review sessions: I shoot for 30 reviews in the morning and 30 at night) The main thing probably comes down to determining what actually makes you lose motivation and how to prevent that, or at least mitigate it (even if the answer is “vacation mode for a week every 3 months” or something). Also, some other useful script goodies: > [@\[Userscript\] Keisei 形声 Semantic-Phonetic Composition](https://community.wanikani.com/t/userscript-keisei-%E5%BD%A2%E5%A3%B0-semantic-phonetic-composition/21479): > > warning This is a third-party script/app and is not created by the WaniKani team. By using this, you understand that it can stop working at any time or be discontinued indefinitely. Keisei Semantic-Phonetic Composition by acm I am proud to release the stable version of my first script, Keisei Semantic-Phonetic Composition! Installation Instructions Get Tampermonkey (installation instructions [in this thread](https://community.wanikani.com/t/visual-guide-on-how-to-install-a-userscript/12136)) Click on the [installation link](https://github.com/mwil/wanikani-userscripts/raw/master/wanikani-phonetic-compounds/wk_keisei.user.js) (Tampermonkey should auto-detect .user.js files) I… > [@\[Userscript\] Niai 似合い Visually Similar Kanji](https://community.wanikani.com/t/userscript-niai-%E4%BC%BC%E5%90%88%E3%81%84-visually-similar-kanji/23325): > > warning This is a third-party script/app and is not created by the WaniKani team. By using this, you understand that it can stop working at any time or be discontinued indefinitely. Niai Visually Similar Kanji by acm This is the stable release of my latest script, Niai Visually Similar Kanji! This is a completely new implementation, and a substitute for the old [Wanikani Similar Kanji](https://community.wanikani.com/t/userscript-wanikani-similar-kanji/8905) script, and a more full-featured version of Wanikani’s own Visually Similar Kanji section. Installation I… > [@\[Userscript\] Stroke Order Diagram](https://community.wanikani.com/t/userscript-stroke-order-diagram/46724): > > This is a fork of [the original Stroke Order script](https://community.wanikani.com/t/x/5040) which has recently started having a few issues. The original author @looki does not seem to be around anymore, so with a fix from @killergerbah I will take up maintenance of this script. Unless of course @looki comes back and is against it. Stroke Order Diagram Inserts stroke order diagrams from Jisho into reviews, lessons, and kanji pages. [image] Available at [WaniKani Stroke Order](https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/414633-wanikani-stroke-order) > [@\[Userscript\] ConfusionGuesser](https://community.wanikani.com/t/userscript-confusionguesser/38432): > > This is a third-party script and is not created by the WaniKani team. By using this, you understand that it can stop working at any time or be discontinued indefinitely. ConfusionGuesser [General script installation instructions](https://community.wanikani.com/t/visual-guide-on-how-to-install-a-userscript/12136)[Open Framework installation](https://community.wanikani.com/t/installing-wanikani-open-framework/28549)[ConfusionGuesser](https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/388692-confusionguesser) Recommended: activate “Use IDS” in the settings menu (see screenshots below) What does it do? If you give a wrong answer during a review, this script guesses which other WK items you confused the question with and displa… I _think_ those all still work (they work for me). 😅 --- _[View the full topic](https://community.wanikani.com/t/been-away-for-a-year-trying-to-get-back-in/58270)._