MaruMori.io & Kitsun.io - [UPDATE: JLPT MOCK EXAM LISTENING SECTIONS & ADVENTURE DASHBOARD] - Grammar SRS, Grammar Lessons, Reading Exercises, Vocabulary, Kanji and more!

@neicul can we have J as a shortcut (during review) to show more details about the item (like in WK)? And also a translation of sentences (in grammar reviews)? :slight_smile:

Heya!

We currently have no way to completely reset your account. What you can do, though, is completely reset your SRS lessons and reviews so that those are completely cleared out. You can do this through the manage items page of a study list → selecting all items → demote items action → set level to 0. This completely wipes your progress on those items, giving you a clean slate to work with!

Regarding Adventure, you can always revisit completed lessons at any time.

Another option is for me to delete your account, after which you can remake it with the same email address. If you want this, please let me know at support @ marumori . io , and I’ll delete your current account for you.

That being said, account reset functionality is on my to-do list. However, it might take a little while still as other things currently take priority. Really hoping to get to it soon though, as we get quite some requests for it by now. Sorry for the inconvenience!

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We have the CTRL/CMD + 1/2/3/4/5 hotkeys for switching information tabs during lessons and reviews (backside of the card). Which might be what you’re looking for?

A hotkey for showing the Grammar SRS hints is a good one to add I think! If I’m not mistaken it’s already on my to-do list, if not, I’ll go ahead and add it :smile:

2000+ Discord Users Giveaway & Fresh New Trials for everyone!

Okay so it’s a little delayed, but I’m happy to announce that in honor of hitting over 2k Discord members, we’re throwing one of our patented and much-beloved (by many, I’m told) MaruMori giveaways!

Similar to last time, the giveaway has two parts to it.

Part 1: All un-subbed users get new free trials! (Yes, an actual giveaway!)

We’re giving everyone who’s not currently subbed another chance to check out the site for free. Y’know, so you can get a feel for the vibes, and the kanjis. Your fresh new free trial can be activated whenever you’d like by clicking the corresponding button on the homepage.

Part 2: Win a lifetime or yearly sub!

From now until December 4th, complete at least 6 grammar lesson tiles and be automatically entered to win a lifetime membership, or one of three yearly subscriptions!

Winners will have their accounts automatically upgraded, and will be notified via email.

Oh and if you’re already subbed but still want in on the fun, that’s allowed too! If you win, you can still either upgrade your subscription (e.g. monthly to yearly) or simply give it away to someone else! ‘Tis the season, after all.

Okay, that’s all about that. Time to open the floodgates and let the giveaway-ing
 commence!

Best of luck to all!

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To be honest I didn’t check those as I wasn’t aware they exists (also on macos ctrl+1/2/3
 works instead of CMD, which is usually used to swtich tabs)

What’s more, I kinda didn’t notice the different “tabs” on vocab reviews either :face_with_peeking_eye: :smiling_face_with_tear:

Alas, this was more about grammar reviews and AFAIR (don’t have any pending right now to check it) the layout is slightly different: you have hint (various levels) and “more info” (which basically opens whole lesson).

Awesome! :smiley:

(is the to-do public maybe? :face_with_peeking_eye: :D)

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Ah gotcha! The “show more” button just scrolls down the page to the lesson (it’s always available on the page, just below the actual question). If you press SPACE it will (for most browsers?) also scroll down :smile:

Sadly it isn’t, because our task management software doesn’t have a way to make it public last I checked. I’ll check if things have changed since then :smiley:

That said, we do have live updates on our Discord in a specific channel whenever something gets added or when the status of a task changes. So if you always want to be up to date about what’s coming next, that’s likely your best bet for now!

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Yeah, I noticed that as well but using space to scroll doesn’t go to the exact anchor so it’s not-perfect :wink: dedicated key that trigger the same action as “show more” would be awesme :slight_smile:

Out of curiosity - what software do you use? :slight_smile:

Sadly I don’t use discord - it’s just to hectic for me (and recently it occured to me I may have an itsy bitsy of ADHD and I try to eliminate as much distractors as possible; and Discord is very “in your face” in that regard - I very much prefer more static/stable things like forums/RSS :slight_smile: )

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That’s true I guess!

Linear :smiley: I’ve set up a public read-only version here (but its pretty messy without proper filtering like we have in Linear):

Hopefully it works haha

Yeah no worries, it’s definitely not for everyone.

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N2 Content Drop #18

December is upon us. But you know what isn’t? Seasonal depression. Why not? Because 99% of doctors recommend fire Japanese grammar lessons as the #1 way to boost one’s mood over the holidays. So whether you’re a Christmas lover, or if the only holiday cheer in your life is the one you give when the holidays are over–fear not! I have just the thing. (It’s five new N2 grammar lessons, vocab, kanji, and a reading exercise. Oh and grammar SRS points. Ho ho ho!)

This batch’s grammar lessons feature such distinguished points as ïœžă«éš›ă—ăŠ for “occasions”, 際, which is different from ïœžă«éš›ă—ăŠ, and ïœžă‹ă‚‰ă—ăŠ, which will allow you to superficially judge others in Japanese, just like you’ve always wanted.

And for the vocab enthusiasts in the building, we’ve got words like ç™ș明 (“invention”), 栌闘 (“hand to hand combat”), and 櫁 (“bride”). They all come together beautifully in certain contexts, trust me.

And in this week’s reading exercise, two friends discuss their favorite Studio Babli movies, someone makes a mistake that any of us could make, really, with tofu, and two rivals battle it out for the last set meal at lunch.

Happy start of December, and happy studies!

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New Mobile Apps Update - v1.0.14 - Study Friends, Recently Studied & Leeches, Profile Page, Lesson linking, Personal Synonyms & Notes, Suggest Changes and more!

Hey everyone!

Over the past few days we’ve submitted a new app version to the Apple and Google app stores! This new version is packed to the brim with new features and bugfixes, so let’s get into it without further ado!

Study Friends

First up are the Study Friends pages. Most of you are probably already familiar with these from the website version, but just in case you aren’t, here’s a quick rundown:

Study Friends lets you add other users on MaruMori as your friend. When they (or you, if they add you) accept, you will be able to see their experience of the past 7 days, as well as more details about their recent studies and their overall study progress on MaruMori!

You can also see your own experience of the past 7 days and have a “friendly” competition with them on a private leaderboard. Here’s what that looks like:

From this page you can also go to the details page of a friend (in the table → 3 dots → view activity), where you can see all kinds of statistics of their studies on MM. Here are a few examples:

Recently Studied & Leeches

Next up, we’ve also added the Recently Studied & Leeches pages, as well as introduced a new query (filter) option for finding your most annoying leeches.

For those unfamiliar with what leeches are, they’re essentially the SRS items that just fail to stick for you. Typically indicating that you will either need to give more attention to them, or suspend them for now, if they’re too overwhelming.

Speaking of giving more attention to them, that’s exactly the main purpose of these pages! From these pages you can easily select the items you want (vocab & kanji only) and start a new Quick Study session! With Quick Study, you can drill (review) these items as many times as you want, without it influencing the SRS levels of the items.

Next to leeches, we also show you your most recently learned items:

As well as your most recently reviewed items:

Oh and I did mention we have a new filter for leeches too! Normally, we’d only show you items which are below SRS level 9 and with an accuracy of 70% or lower. However, now we also have a button that lets you find leeches by total wrong count. This will let you find leeches that you normally wouldn’t see due to the accuracy % cutoff. Just tap on the “Get By Mistakes Count” button at the top of the table to view them!

Profile Page

I’ll keep this one short, as it’s pretty straightforward, but we’ve also implemented the Profile page! On it you will see the same data as you’d expect. Such as your latest achievements, your latest activity notifications, your Profile Share Image, as well as your JLPT Certificates and a few statistics. Basically exactly the same as on web!

One small caveat to note here is that the “edit profile” and “edit share image” modals have not been implemented just yet. They’ll come with a later update!

Grammar Lesson Link Component

WE-OW WE-OW WE-OW new feature alert!

Yep! Next to some of the already existing web features, we’ve also added a completely new feature (which we haven’t even announced on web yet, but is already live there too!). Namely a Grammar Lesson Link Component for our Grammar Lessons!

No more manually searching for a reference to one of our previous lessons! We’ve gone through all our content and replaced any reference to a previous lesson with an actual link to the previous lesson.

This is what it looks like:

Just tap the link and it will bring you to the corresponding lesson, and let you go back to the original lesson you were in, just by tapping on the back button! Revolutionary! :wink:

Personal Synonyms & Notes

One of the most requested missing features on mobile has finally landed! You can now edit your Personal Synonyms (personal accepted answers for kanji & vocab SRS) and add your own notes to Kanji and Vocabulary during SRS lessons and reviews!

Which then shows up like:

Suggest Changes

Similarly, you can now also suggest global (non-personal) changes, or submit feedback on SRS items! This means you can now let us know directly from the app if a certain grammar SRS item has issues, or suggest improvements to our Kanji and Vocabulary (for example, which answers should not be marked as correct, in case they were due to our typo leniency system).

In related news, we’ve been going through the huge backlog of Kanji and Vocabulary feedback we’ve accumulated over the years, and are nearly through the whole thing (thousands of suggestions!!!), so expect an announcement full of changes/improvements soon!

Smaller Improvements & Bugfixes!

  • Vocabulary SRS & Dictionary - Pitch Accent Diagrams now look (and sound!) normal again. We’ve also fixed a few issues where small kana like ゅ were causing incorrect pitch diagrams to display.
  • Home - Fixed an issue where some region artwork would be cutoff in the adventure card.
  • Grammar Library - Fixed the gray screen from popping up when a grammar point has no breakdown available yet.
  • SRS & Dictionary - Example Sentences - Fixed an issue where example sentences would sometimes be missing the Japanese text.
  • Kana Minigame - Fixed an issue where skipping the tutorial would cause the main game to say you finished the tutorial.
  • Adventure Dashboard - Fixed an issue where the previous chapter would sometimes disappear if you completed a tile in a different chapter.
  • SRS - Added a bit of extra padding to the Flip Buttons (know/don’t know)
  • SRS - Removed the background and shade for some button sections for dark theme users.
  • SRS Lessons - Fixed the issue where you could close the “batch done” modal after completing 5 lessons and it would not continue onto the next batch.
  • Dictionary/Grammar Library Search - Fixed an issue where searching for a grammar point (from the global search) would not automatically open the Grammar Library, but rather only the More page.
  • SRS Lessons - Fixed an issue where the pronunciation audio would not change between items when manually tapping the play button.

Pfew! That was a big new update! Yet another step closer to the mobile app having complete feature parity with the website! Just a bit more and we’ll be able to release it out of early-access!


P.S.: For those that might not know: If you are a subscriber or have a lifetime account, you can try the mobile app through the following links:

iOS app:

Android app:

In the coming months the app will release from early access into general release, meaning everyone will get access to the app, regardless of subscription status. But until then, we’ll keep implementing missing features first!

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Could I ask for a small-ish improvement to mobile app (android)? Can the session be longer? I usually use computer to study but every now and then I would like to use the app and in almost all instances I have to re-login. (and to boot - for some reason it doesn’t trigger the password manager prompt so I have to get the password from the manager manually instead of using build-in password manager integration [firefox → heliboard keyboard but they are just using OS APIs])