An easy improvement for most people would be to keep apprentice items unchanged but always round higher SRS tiers to midnight (or some other user specified hour) so that they get batched daily instead of hourly.
You would still have apprentice items dropping throughout the day at arbitrary hours but at least you could better plan the rest of your reviews.
I also saw that you could now prioritize reviews by SRS tier which goes in the right direction, but leaving a bunch of reviews in the pile is messier and easier to mess up than just rescheduling the items IMO.
Yeah, Ideally you could set the preferred reset time just for the edge cases of users on like graveyard shifts and stuff, but I think this would be the best solution. I never personally minded just doing reviews a couple times during the day when i used wk and floflo, but I also do feel like the anki style is nice because you can just wake up and “knock out your reviews for the day” and not have to think about it anymore. Having anki style just gives you more options. You can do it piecewise if you want or knock it all out early on if you want.
Do the available reviews when you have the time, leave the others for your next review session.
If you forgot some words by then, just make mistakes, learn and memorize it more from it.
If you wanna do more than the available amount of lessons/reviews, use the extra study feature, helping you memorize the words better which in turn will increase your success rate in the next batch of reviews.
The biggest mistake most people make (myself included) is going too fast in the early levels. Eventually Master & Enlightened words will come back after days of waiting and your review count will increase sky high. Making it almost impossible to finish your reviews in the few free daily hours you have.
Just accept how the system works. Don’t put too much thought into it. Do what you can and what’s available to you. Go with the flow.
That’s similar to how Bunpro does it and I really like that system!
It would be nice if Wanikani implemented a similar system, but all in all, I’m not that bothered by it, especially now when master and enlightened stages are more frequent
You can achieve that, in a way, by deciding when to take new lessons. The subsequent review times follow a clear pattern after that.
But as someone else said, the further you go, your review pile will become large enough that there will pretty much always be something to do whenever you log in.
My case specifically
9 am => 1 pm => 9 pm
Those times are calculated based on the noted above SRS times for WaniKani
Lessons where 9 am only… for the most part… when I had lessons (I was going full speed, it’s complicated, thinking to write a whole post about it)
Reviews I do on those time slots exclusively, aim to zero the review queue. Eventually things fall nicely into that schedule.
Sure, sometimes you’ll get reviews at odd times of the day, but as pointed out, you don’t need to do reviews the second they become available (I made that mistake on my first WK run, results were bad)
And it feels slow for now… you’re level 3. It will get more… interesting… as you move forward
As you get deeper into WK, more and more of your workload will come to be later SRS stage items, which have re-appearance cadences in multiples of days, not hours. If you are tending to batch your studying into one or two specific periods a day, it should also come to be the case that most of your reviews align with coming up during those periods.
This is not to say that your complaints are not valid, and indeed the total lack of flexibility of WK’s SRS compared to other implementations of it is a common criticism. But the real workload (and return) of WK really comes many months into the program as you filter things in and out of the very late SRS stages and at that point we’re talking about a difference of 12 hours on a term that is 4-6 months old.
Oh joy, I skipped the late night assignment to get more convenient times, got through one whole review early in the morning and… it goddamn dumps them all in the middle of the night again.
Just some 48 cards? I think this amount can be done quite easily if you break it down into 20 card segments. I have 200 on a daily basis and I break them down because otherwise I will break.
Very common thing here. I don’t really like doomsaying but its best for new users to learn early on that any suggestions won’t be added, and that you’ll have multiple random people pop up to tell you any change to the system is not needed.
I figured it out. If you do your new lessons at 8pm for example, then they’ll come up again at 12pm midnight due to the 4hr timer. So if you do them again then it binds that time as their start for the day based timers meaning they’ll come up around midnight again until they are burned.
That time gate where it binds the day start is critical to avoiding the late night review stack. So you should only do your reviews at time you want the most with 4 hours differnce.
