Specifying Number of Readings+Meanings for Kanji/Vocab During Reviews

Just wondering if there is either an add-on or option or some other specific course of action I can take to alter the interface in order to make it so that during reviews, before you actually input your answer, you can see the exact amount of alternative meanings a kanji/vocab item has, and the exact amount of readings kanji can have. I guess this might be difficult to implement considering Kanji items alternate between requiring on’yomi kun’yomi inputs. Still, I would definitely benefit from an element such in that it would to remind me not to just input the primary meaning/reading and after seeing the other acceptable anser(s) going “oh yea, those also apply”. I know you could say “just wait till after answering to see if there’s multiple meanings/reading”, but an exact number would be much more preferable because there’s no way I’m gonna remember the precise number of alternative readings+meanings for each individual kanji/vocab. My default assumption is “oh, so there’s two readings/meanings” then I’ll remember a second, open the reading/meaning drop-down, and be annoyed that I didn’t have the opportunity to recall the third and/or fourth one on my own. Besides that this (though this might be a highly personal issue applicable only to me), when I have over 50 reviews to get through; every time after I get the green go-ahead implying “you did it bud, A+!”, it often happens I’ll just hit the enter key again before even seeing that there is more than one readings/meaning to make note of (meaning I can’t go back). Having a little cue before actually inputting an answer would be far more effective in spurring on my brain go through the effort of trying to recall alternatives, as opposed to afterwards answering, in which case you have the much easier option of altogether avoiding the exercise of recalling by simply pressing ‘F’.

I just think this would be really helpful in reinforcing readings/meanings that you aren’t as able to as effectively absorb and which I suspect are gonna jump scare/blindside me in later levels lol.

Sorry if this issue sounds overly nitpicky, but I feel like it’d help a lot if implementable

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I would recommend using the vocab to reinforce the alternative readings, not learn an exhaustive list of readings for every kanji (which is never going to be exhaustive anyway because of all the irregular gikun readings out there, not to mention rendaku, nanori, etc.).

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