My mind is broken

[Greya]

I once asked a similar question to the community and got a bunch of very helpful replies for my situation. One of the replies I found most helpful were these guidelines:

@kureigunogo

You’ll have to find what works for you. My strategy before level 10 was clear reviews down to zero, then do all my lessors - as soon as they were there. After burning myself out (not entirely WK’s fault) then coming back four years later and taking 6 months to clear my huge review queue (level 10 for 1605 days ), I created a few personal guidelines to keep it from ever happening again.

1. No lessons ever if my review count is not 0.
2. I do not have to do more than 25 reviews at a time (that being said, I usually drive it down to zero several times a day - use the phone app whenever you can steal a couple of minutes)
3. No lessons if my “Next Day” is higher than 100.
4. No lessons if my Guru count is higher than 500 (haven’t ever hit this, so I may decide to tweak it, if it ever occurs)
5. I usually don’t do more than 10 lessons at a time or more than 25 lessons a day (sometimes not counting 熟語 that I can pick up instantly from knowing the individual kanji)
6. Regular reminders that I’m here to learn kanji and vocabulary as well as I can, not to get to level 60 as fast as I can.

I also stay away from any scripts that change WK’s behavior, like the “oops” or reorder scripts. The only script I use is jitai, which is awesome. I’ve thought about similar kanji scripts, but, for me, it’s better to go look them up and compare side-by-side if I start confusing two (my current bugbears are 便and 使)

By my guidelines, from your screenshot, right now it’s OK to do 20 lessons. But, as I said above, this works for me, maybe not for you.

Good luck

Although the people were responding specifically to my situation, you might still find something useful in the thread, so I’ll post it here:

Personalized guidance for balancing reviews and lessons, please?

I know that there’s already been some discussion about balancing reviews and lessons in a general way, but what I’d really like is some personalized guidance, so hence this thread. Anyway, having entered level 6, I’ve got the usual lesson dump, but although I’d really like to jump into some new lessons, looking at my review timeline, I’m not sure I should… Any feedback at what I should do? Should I wait until Thursday, before going hardcore into the lessons? I still tend to do around 10 lessons…

Also, I’m sorry to hear about your parent. I hope they will recover. My advice would be to just do what Japanese studying you are able to. Even if it’s just getting through a few reviews or doing 5 lessons, as long as you’re doing something you’ll be moving forward. A slow pace may even help you cement things better in your mind. As long as you prioritize what is most important, I think you will be fine.