How do you use the Self Study Quizz userscript?

[wct]

@Makushi_Rutsu

• Ashes Approach

I only filter out the burned Items to keep the flame alive

I don’t use any scripts myself (just a personal choice; nothing against scripts!), but I’ve come up with two non-script techniques to review burned items (see my comment at Best Way to review burnt items - #13 by wct for the full details).

The ‘bigger’ more ‘structured’ technique (the main focus of that linked comment) is what I’m calling:

@wct

A ‘Rolling Reset’

Simply put, a ‘rolling reset’ is when you manually Unburn items from previous levels, in order from low levels to higher levels, such that you are manually simulating doing a Danger Zone > Reset, except:

• It doesn’t happen all at once, only at whatever pace you choose, by manually unburning as many items as you choose at any time of your choosing.
• There’s no “Danger Zone” involved. It is actually completely reversible! You just go back to the items you’ve unburned and manually burn them again.
  • Because there’s no danger, and it’s completely reversible, this is something you can try out with no regrets! If you like it, great! If you don’t, you can undo it and re-Burn all your previously burned items no problem
• It remembers all your progress, both on your later levels (the one’s you’re currently working on), and also on your Unburned items! For instance, Unburned items retain their previous statistics like the number of times you’ve answered them, and the number & percentage you got wrong in the past incarnation(s) of this particular item. This is very reassuring, meaning you’ve not lost any information/progress. It will all still be there.
  • A side-effect of this is that your progress as measured on https://www.wkstats.com (which I use a lot, btw) is also not affected. The only thing is that your previously Burned items will also be reset back to Apprentice and then continue to track their progress on WK as usual. Likewise, if you re-burn an item, WkStats will again track it as Burned again. [A benefit of using WkStats is that you can track your ‘rolling reset’ as you go. It’s quite interesting to watch it progress, IMO.]

The ‘simpler’, less-structured way is actually just the ‘manual unburning’ part of a Rolling Reset, but you pick and choose which items to unburn, rather than systematically going from lower levels to higher levels:

@wct

Even without the full ‘rolling reset’ – where you do all items, starting at a low level and ‘rolling’ up to higher levels – you can still use the basic idea of ‘revisiting old friends’, i.e. unburning specific items that you’ve decided you want to review from the beginning, whether because you ran across it in the wild and couldn’t remember it, or just because you were scanning items from previous WK levels and felt, “Hmm, maybe I could brush up on that one…”.

Basically, a ‘rolling reset’ is just ‘revisiting old friends’, but instead of worrying about which ones to revisit, you just revisit all of them.

I’ve been using these techniques for quite a few months now (I started with just ‘revisiting old friends’ but then started doing a full ‘rolling reset’ once I realized that it was actually enjoyable), and I find it works very well, for myself anyways.

I haven’t used any scripts like Self-Study Quiz, so I cannot offer an opinion on them or how they would compare to a rolling reset / revisiting old friends. But, it’s easy to imagine how these two methods work, because it is basically exactly the same as ‘resetting’ a Burned item back to Apprentice 1, and it immediately goes into your review stack, and then you just review it in the normal WaniKani way until you re-burn it again. [And, you can always manually re-Burn it if you no longer want to study it, since WK remembers that you’ve already burned it once, so you can re-Burn it again whenever you want.]

Hope this is a helpful alternative way of thinking about the situation, even if you end up preferring the Self-Study Script in the end anyway. Cheers!