I understand the need for SRS and normally would be all for it, however, what do you do when you are at work and cant do all the lessons/ reviews? Or say you don’t feel like doing it that day?
I tell you… ending up with 80+ reviews and a few lessons is kind of arduous. If I could make a suggestion to add in a script that also bases it off of a user’s activity for that day or week?
That way people don’t get inundated with reviews. Just a thought.
Does anyone have a solution in the mean time?
I think the issue is that then you’d get more stuff wrong because the gap would be longer, and therefore end up with more reviews in the long run. Plus, although you could push some reviews back to the next day, that just means you have more the next day…
I do them anyway 
if it’s just non-negotiable then at least you don’t waste time and energy wrestling with yourself over whether or not to bother.
If you have some time and just not enough for all of them you could use the reorder script to make sure you at least hit the four-hour reviews for the items you learnt that morning. The rest can then wait until the evening.
It might also help to realise that you don’t need to do all of your lessons as soon as they become available; most people (not all) tend to find a routine where they do a set number of lessons per day. The number varies from person to person depending on how fast you want to level and how many reviews you’re comfortable doing per day.
If you do your lessons steadily then you’ll avoid huge surges as batches of items come back up for review, and you can control your daily number of reviews by adjusting the number of lessons you do per day.
That’s probably the ultimate answer to your question: do fewer lessons per day if you want fewer reviews per day.
Yeah. I’ve been doing them while at work, in a checkstand. ( I work in a grocery store).
Then I end up with 80+ reviews and ugh.
I’ll try to remove the time that I’m at work and see if that changes things.
Thanks. ありがとう。
Also… is there something you guys use to put in Japanese on these posts? I just tried to switch inputs and it doesn’t work. (I have the JP language pack installed for Win 10)
Never mind, I figured it out.
See how you go ^^
Ah, excellent 
I’ll echo a couple of things @Radish8 said (and expand with my own experience):
Even if you don’t feel up to doing your reviews, you have to do your reviews. Make it a routine, and stick to it even if you don’t want to. When it comes to a long-term endeavor such as learning Japanese, you may become discouraged or unmotivated, and want to give up from time to time. This is where you need to have that routine to keep you going.
Hold off on lessons if you can’t zero our your reviews every day. I’m leveling up about once per month. I was looking at about 50 lessons pending when I suddenly leveled up and had over 130 lessons pending. That was a few days ago, and I’m currently sitting at 123 lessons. I’m taking my time so I don’t get overwhelmed. My average number of reviews is 68 cards (which, with two reviews for most cards, it’s typically about 110 to 120 individual reviews). This is a decent number for me, alongside vocabulary reviews in iKnow, and reading manga.
With anything learned, this isn’t an option.
Discipline is your ladder to greatness.
Unless you don’t take this all seriously, that is
I’ve found that I’ve got much faster at doing reviews now that I have a few levels under my belt. I think a lot of it is that once you know some kanji decently well vocab gets much simpler, as most words are just combinations of the kanji means you already know, maybe with a few common changes here and there. You also learn how to spell things better, I remember constantly messing up the spelling for
I also find it helps to do many small reviews instead of trying to clear all the items at once. What I usually do in the morning is do 10 items (via the “wrap up button”), go pour coffee, do 10 more items, check my email, do 10 more items, etc. You can get through a hundred+ items quicker than you think.
I skip reviews on days that have been utterly mentally exhausting at work as I can’t think straight and end up passed out at 7pm in bed anyway (
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It hasn’t hurt my progress, it’s better than getting 60% wrong. I don’t frequently skip whole days though. I also do reviews just before work, lunchtime and just after finishing.
Do you know about the wrap-up button? (some people don’t notice it or realize what it does, that’s why I ask)
After you’ve started a review session, below the left side of the answer bar, there’s a button with a clock on it. If you click that, it will end your session after ten more items - useful if you start reviewing and then find you don’t have time to do everything!
I remember those simpler times…
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