掲示板 Forums - [Megathread] Focused Review improvements!

My suggestion for the focused review feature: it would be great to be able to choose several units at once (e.g. when studying vocabulary according to Genki, being able to practise two or more chapters at the same time...)

I would love the option to focus review certain lists in a custom-made schedule. Right now, it`s only possible for me to do focused review for certain textbook chapters and selfmade lists when I add them to a pre-made schedule. So I can repeat for example Chapter 1 of the pre-made Genki 1 Textbook schedule seperately, as well as any personal lists I added to that schedule. If I have my own costume made schedule with the exact same personal lists though, there is no option to review them seperately. Of course I could just learn the entire list, but this would mean not being able to alter the quiz size and having to do the entire chapter, compared to, let´s say, just 20 repetitions.

I agree with ギョルギさん; Having an option to review most missed terms would be a game changer for me. The "missed recently" option only seems to limit to certain days and there's no option for selecting a range of terms if not everything within one review if you're into that kind of gauntlet (which I've done for hiragana and katakana, merged even).

heck, even having added info on which terms you've missed the most when looking thru your lessons, somewhere near the mastery level info, would be nice to know. You could even have an option to turn that off if it's too much pressure, but I came across some recent studies from a science article my mom usually reads that essentially sums up an effective way to learn: "you learn best when you have room to make mistakes and learn from them."

I'm sure anyone who's ever watched oldskool KOBS's Magic School Bus can remember what Ms. Frizz always say: "make experiments, make mistakes, get messy."

I would personally love more interactive games that work with my study list, but above all I wish that I had the option to pick either learn new terms, or do a focused review or quiz without having to complete a section e.g. N5 or N4. I want to study my words on the go even if I haven’t completed the section yet. Maybe theres an easier way to do this because I am not very tech literate but I would like it on my dashboard to just review all the terms I already studied whenever I want to.

Thank you very much for all that you guys do, this is an awesome app.

Kansha Shimasu

​this requires reconfiguring the schedule, then reconfiguring again when wanting to return to new words. it would be nice to just have a once off option in the focused review section to just study the words suggested to review for the day

I really wish there was a feature to exclude terms that I had already reviewed that day. Say I'm doing a focused review of vocabulary that I have gotten wrong over the last week and there are 60 such terms. I would be able to cover all 60 terms in two 30 question quizzes with no overlap. Currently the second quiz will have a handful of repeats and I'll have to do a third or fourth quiz to cover everything.

​I use the studypad for that, when I remember. Click on the green plus, add the item to the studypad, then move on to the next question. That way I can review them all after finishing the quiz.

Thanks everyone - it sounds like the conversation naturally drifted a bit away from the original topic, but I've seen a lot of good ideas, and I look forward to implementing some of them before year's end!

I wanted to respond and let everyone know about my plans for this. There were a TON of ideas in here. A lot of them were, unfortunately, either beyond the scope of what the focused review system is meant to express, or would add so much complexity to the FR panel that it would turn it into a huge list of options.

So, I am working on adding a focused set of additions/expansions/changes that I feel stick to the current format closely enough that they'll be adopted easily.

As I have not yet begun on these, I welcome any further comments on the below contents:

Officially planned (in no specific order)

1. Allowing a FR to select more than one list

2. Most missed (most likely with a few options: missed most times, highest missed percentage)

3. Highest Mastery (At this point, I do not think I'll be adding a way to do mastery ranges)

4. Expand vector selection to allow all vectors, including ones not in that schedule.

5. Reviewed least recently

6. Exclusion options

Ex. Choose terms to exclude: (Studied recently (same options as above), Learned recently)

(Note: the system does not note which terms are studied in a regular quiz, and which ones are in a FR, so there is not a way to do "batches" like several of you requested. The "exclude terms reviewed today" will get you pretty close, though.

7. (This may be a five minute job, may be several hours - need to look into it more) Option for FR not affecting mastery.

---> With this one, I have not yet decided if it should not affect them at all, or if it should not push reviews back, but allow terms to fall (or give this as an option)

Unfortunately, having focused reviews expand beyond a single schedule is currently not in the scope of this. I do hope to add this, though, but it would have to have a place somewhere on the dashboard that is "above" all the reviews. Wording to be finalized later, but maybe a "Global focused review" (you'd have to choose a type: words, kanji, etc.), with the same options as the normal focused review. From a technical standpoint, I think it's definitely doable. I'll happily take mockups of where you think it would go on the dashboard.