Hey all! In my studies I’ve been wanting a way to do a single lesson. Sometimes I just have a couple of idle minutes between meetings or while waiting on someone and don’t want to start a batch, so I made an iPhone shortcut to pull a single lesson from my review queue! I know it doesn’t beat dedicated sit-down-and-study techniques, but life is hectic sometimes.
Here’s a video of it in action
Some overall notes:
- it only does a simple string match to verify your answer, so if it doesn’t match exactly then it’ll bring up the answer set to ask you if you got it right or not
- the Japanese input requires the Japanese keyboard in order for it to match properly (just try not to cheat with the autocomplete input!)
- if the word is a vocabulary word, it’ll play the audio after your answer input
- I know the text is small
but I couldn’t figure out a way to make the alert notice text bigger without being too disruptive for the flow
If you’re interested in trying it out, here it is: Shortcuts
- you’ll need to input your api key into the first text box of the shortcut
- you’ll also need to input your timezone difference from UTC in the second textbox. It’s currently set at -07:00 since I’m live in Pacific Time
Happy to receive feedback, but ultimately I just wanted to share this as is in case it interests others. Let me know what you think!