I wish there was a way to make custom lists to look at and review independently of the main review cycle. For example, if there are some kanjis that you have been struggling to learn but you eventually pushed past the level and you don’t see it until it comes back in the next review cycle and you struggle again for a time.
For these situations, I would want a list of all the problematic kanjis I encounter and be able to review it whenever I want independently of any other thing. In such a list I could also integrate kanjis I encountered in a manga/article and forgot how to read.
I just want to make a custom Anki list with WK items and without going through Anki.
To implement that, there could be a button in the item page that goes “Add to list” and it seamlessly does it.
I used an example with “Difficult kanjis” but another example could be someone who wants to put all the visually similar kanjis in one review pack so that they don’t confuse them with each other
What do you all think ?
PS: it’s my first post here despite being level 28, never interacted much with the community and am going to change that
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I agree completely. Even reaching a point of guru status and beyond I find some Kanji and Vocab to slip my mind. Having a way to group them to further review (or even just gauge scope) would go a long way.
I’d personally like the option to curate lists of Kanji and Vocab even outside of a difficulty context. It would be really convenient if I could put together a list of Kanji that- for example- look similar, have similar meanings, or I want to practice pronounciations. Same goes for Vocab- I’d love a list of adjectives/nouns/verbs, things like foods or clothing, connective sentence tissue, etc.
Something like Letterboxd (of all things to compare to) would be really fun and help learning, doubly so if we could share/view the lists like on that platform. Maybe not many would use it, but I like the idea of being able to organize to that extent.
Great suggestion and I’m curious to what others have to say about it.
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I think it would be a great feature!
I have these few kanjis that always fall back to Guru after failing the burn review because I can never remember them properly.
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I’ve passed this on to the team!
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The Item Inspector script allows to type in lists of items for review with Self Study Quiz. Perhaps this is something you would consider using.
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Thanks for the suggestion ! I looked into it and while that is a start, it’s not exactly what I’m looking for.
The item inspector lets me create a table according to different filters, but it doesn’t actually let me handpick my items that I want to create a fully custom table, that I could then use to do a self study quiz on, or maybe export it to Anki.
(I just noticed that you’re the creator of the item inspector so I’m gonna elaborate on exactly what I mean)
I would want the ability to create a table with items of my choosing. Such items could be added via a button on their item page or directly while reviewing, as seen in the images below:
(these were made in Paint in 2 minutes, don’t judge me)
That way, if I’m having trouble with an item I can directly “save it for later” in a table with other items I’m having trouble with, whether they’re from level 15 or 5 or 25, whether they have a radical in common or not, etc…
My point is that no combination of filters would be able to make that theoretical list, and that’s what I really want.
This is incorrect. The Explicit List filter displays a dialog where you can type in the items you want and save them for later use. In the latest versions of Item Inspector this is preconfigured in the Type in Items table,
There are other tables that lets you type in items for side by side comparison. Fell free to explore.
If you don’t see the Typed in Items table then do the following
- Make sure you are at the latest version (1.31.3)
- Make sure the latest tables are configured. If they are not configured go to the Settings, click on the Restore Missing Defaults button under the Settings tab.
