[iOS] Tsurukame - native app with offline lessons and reviews

One day, whenever David Sansome decides to make it official. Only he, the creator, can make that happen.

As for building, if you have a Mac with enough space to download Xcode (expect 10GB) and want to do it, do so and then follow the instructions in the README on GitHub. If you decide you want to and have questions, let me know!

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Nah, I’ll just wait and leave the computer genius stuff to the computer geniuses.

Disregard, morteasd had my back.

Greetings! I perused the feature request list on your repo and did not see it, so forgive me if it’s a dupe.

When a burn review is present on screen, I would like an option to display an icon (perhaps a flame icon or similar) in a corner of the window to indicate that it is a final review.

I’m still a month off from any burns, but the option would enable me to intentionally answer incorrectly if I am lacking confidence on the answer that comes to mind. Since burning “removes” the item from the queue, I’d like to ensure that those items won’t be lost on me shortly after (by ensuring my recall is appropriately fast for a burned item).

You can already see the level of the SRS item in the corner during the review. Is that not enough?

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Ah, there was a setting for current SRS level. This will certainly work for my purposes, albeit being able to only target burns is still something desirable for me (though it’s importance is extremely low since this feature exists). Thank you.

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You can also sort reviews by increasing or decreasing SRS. That’s my favorite way to sort.

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Thanks for the suggestion; ultimately, the reason why both of these suggestions aren’t the ideal scenario for me is that they both provide undesirable SRS context to my review session for lower than enlightened items. To label it as a personal problem isn’t inaccurate, but even on a larger screen I can see the review state in the peripheral vision on the text line.

If I cannot make the distinction between two similar-looking Kanji, one being new while the other is relatively old, the SRS indicator gives me an unwanted hint. Granted, this would obviously occur at the burn level with my request, but at the burn level the beauty of the SRS should alleviate the concerns of having the icon present.

The concept of sorting my reviews by SRS is similar in this regard, where I feel that the randomness and possible mixing of similar looking Kanji at random SRS intervals more closely resembles the goal of being able to read and comprehend full texts.

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There was a recent request for burn re-reviews that we might implement so that you can have a separate review for previously burned items after a few months of them being burned, so that if you fail, you can resurrect the item to Apprentice again.

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For anyone watching, there’s been some new proposed changes to Tsurukame. Here’s what may be coming next:

This pull request should:

  • Fix #10 by adding a minor level-up animation and summary
  • Fix #49 by hiding parts of an answer during reviews that haven’t been attempted yet, and the last answered review pop-up will now be shown for half-answered reviews due to this being fixed.
  • Fix #86 by adding an exact match setting
  • Fix #201 by adding lesson item order shuffle section
  • Fix #277 by implementing the final point - retrying once without the created field
  • Fix #304 by doing the same thing for review item order that would then exist for lesson item order
  • Fix #321 by making it never auto-reveal if the setting is on, and only after the first fail if the setting is off
  • Fix #340 by adding the review order and item order to the drawer controller
  • Fix #355 by adding the longest relative wait order
  • Fix #357 by adding a toggle in the review summary
  • Fix #365 by adding support for multiple SRS systems

This PR also changes the user-displayed name of “Allow Cheating” to “Ignore Typos & Add Synonyms” since skipping reviews clearly is “cheating” but isn’t part of this setting.
It also partially addresses #257 - adds stats section, but doesn’t add resurrect feature

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All great additions!

Could I put in a request to separate the reveal buttons for meaning and reading? Sometimes I just forget the meaning, but still want to take a stab at the reading without accidentally peeking. Thanks.

Cool! Glad that’s out in the open :slight_smile:

Any way I can add personal notes per item like on the website? sometimes I come up with better sayings than the website for me and want to record them.

Awesome app. Makes me able to fight through the pain :slight_smile:

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Hi ! So great app ! Could not live without it :grinning:

But for a few hours i have a stuck review of a vocab that keeps coming back again and again every hour although i answer it correctly.

Did that already happen to anyone ?

There was a content update today. Is this what you’re having trouble with?

Announcement here

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Yes that’s the one !! :rofl: what can i do ??

Wait until the app is updated! For now, do your reviews in a web browser when you hit that word. At least you should guru it quickly now! The same thing happened a while ago when a radikal was moved.

Ok thanks !

Yet it appears on my tsurukame reviews but not my desktop ones :slightly_frowning_face:
Any suggestion what to do ?