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.