I tend to do the bulk of my Wanikani reviews at the same time each day. When I make mistakes, these are put into the “Recent Mistakes” queue which is available for 24 hours.
This means that errors from the previous day, if not reviewed the same day, will usually wholly or partially disappear by the time I finish reviews the following day.
Does anyone else find this to be frustrating?
I would much rather be able to review recent mistakes (including the ones from the day before) right after I finish reviews, since I see studying recent mistakes before doing reviews as cheating SRS.
Of course, some might say the the feature is meant for reviewing mistakes in the same batch as the ones you just did that day. However, I don’t find this to actually benefit me in practice. I remember them because I just got them wrong–they tend to be items I have trouble remembering on a longer timeframe than a few hours so I’d like this list to be available for the following day as well.
Now that I’ve written this much–one possible solution is to allow Recent Mistakes to be in batches of 24 hours and just retain history a bit longer. The point is, I’d like more insight into my leeches and I may not have time to address them within 24 hours.
A possible fix to your predicament might bee the Failed Last Review table of the Item Inspector script. This shows the items that failed the last review within the last X hours. If the default of 24 hours is not long enough you can go to the settings and set the filter value to 36 or 48 hours or even more as you see fit.
I usually review my mistakes once per day, right before doing my reviews. And so my recent mistakes are always disappearing on me unless I start today’s studies just before the time when I did yesterday’s studies. This introduces stress for me because I need to keep making sure to log in earlier or I end up making more mistakes on my reviews.
The 24 hour expiration seems arbitrary. Everyday habits are not always exactly 24 hours in-between. Life gets in the way, you know.
I guess I am being directed to figure out how to use user scripts with my WaniKani. I am sure that I could find other useful things if I put in the time to do that. But it feels like WaniKani is asking a lot more work of me than my usual software development requires because when it comes to WaniKani user scripts there isn’t a web store with downloads and ratings and sortability like other modern app ecosystems have.
It is arbitrary. In Item Inspector you can change this value in the settings. Perhaps something like 30 hours would work better for you.
There is this. It is a fairly comprehensive list of scripts and other third party apps with links to script thread where links to downloads could be found. But there is is no ratings. The closer you get is the comments in the script thread.