Kitsun Website Update Notes

[Neicudi]

18-11-2018

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New Features:

• {{addclass:fieldname}} field type has been added. This field can be used in your layouts to give the customstyle class to all html IDs specified in the value of that field (for that card). This can be useful when you want certain styling to happen to specific elements based on your cards.

• Touch controls: You can now swipe left and right to cycle back and forth through lessons.

• Clicking elements with the correctclick class (gained from the {{click:fieldname}} field) will now auto-advance to the next card.

• A small timer (0.5sec) will now prevent input after clicking the next button or pressing enter. This should make sure you don’t accidentally hit enter twice and skip a card

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Bugfixes:

• It should now be impossible to skip cards during reviews by spamming the next button or ‘enter’ key.

• The review counter has been fixed!

• The results screen has been fixed!

• Searching by tags will now work as ‘AND’ rather than ‘OR’, meaning that if you search for two tags, it will no longer show results matching only one of those tags.

• Fixed an issue where the hibernated status would not display correctly on the all cards page.

• correctclick class is now being added to both the front and the back of cards.

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I’ve also made some progress with being able to filter certain layouts (read: certain cards) from community decks. If all goes well, it should come with Wednesday’s update Next to that I’ve been working on finishing the Dark theme so expect that one to go live in the near future as well

I’ll post a general plan for the next few weeks soon-ish

EDIT: changing the timer to 0.5s.

[Neicudi]

21-11-2018

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New features:

• Input gets blocked for 1s after submitting a wrong answer (to prevent accidentally advancing to the next card)

Bugfixes:

• General input block has been set to 0.2s now to make sure you can’t skip cards.

• Touch controls now only get triggered on mobile (yay you can select text again @jprspereira)

• Reviews should now always count down again.

• The results page should now display all reviews correctly again.

• Fixed a bug in the interactive tutorial (will enable this again soon-ish )

• Deactivating and later on reactivating a deck should now correctly round the new review times in hours.

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The priority buglist now only has one item in it (regarding usersynonyms). So it looks like I’ll be able to completely focus on new features this weekend

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As for a general planning, here are the things I wish to add in the near future:

Before launch:

• Stripe integration (Payment system)
• Finish the landing page (the main page you will see before registering/logging in)
• Complete the guide/manual, format it and add images where needed.
• Terms of agreement / Legal stuff
• Implement Trial accounts & limitations
• Layout filtering for community decks (so filtering certain card types, e.g. sentence or audio cards)
• Implement a Dark Theme
• Implement interactive tutorials (nearly done)
• Set up the feature voting section on the Kitsun forums
• Some more minor points (take a look at the priority and backlog trello lists)

Either before or after launch:

• Deck level system
• Card unlock system (based on the deck levels)
• Export -> Reimport functionality for data management (export into google sheets/excel -> adjust data -> reimport -> update all cards with the changed data
• More gamification / artwork
• Collaboration on deck creation (create a deck with the whole bookclub!)
• Statistic Page!

After launch:

• Combined Deck Dashboard / Reviews / Lessons (All your decks combined into one central place)
• ‘Do all reviews in X hours now’ feature
• Moreee (will start going through user requested features)

[Neicudi]

25-11-2018

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New features:

• You can now add unlearned cards to the lesson queue manually (AKA Study Now). This can be done by through the actions button on the card edit page. Adding a lesson will put it before all other lessons and will increase your daily limit by 1 (so that you can study the item right away).

• You can now add User notes and Synonyms during lessons! Works the same as it did during reviews. Click the Blue Edit button (which is draggable btw!) and it will allow you to enter a (shared) note or synonym (for that specific layout).

• The Synonym field will now show you exactly which layout it is for.

• The Synonym field has been changed to work in the same way as a tag field.
  

  

• The Blue Edit button for user notes and synonyms will now change to a green colour if there are user synonyms or notes already entered for that item.

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Bugfixes:

• Synonyms should not disappear anymore… If this still happens to you, please let me know asap!

• Hibernation status has been rewritten as a separate property rather than a datetime based value, meaning it will act more consistent regardless of timezones etc.

• Results page for filtered siblings should be fixed… AGAIN

• Review count down for filtered siblings should be fixed… AGAIN

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Implementing the ‘study now’ and ‘user synonyms & notes during lessons’ features was a really, really heavy change. Hopefully nothing broke too hard! Let me know if you experience any issues!

Wednesday’s update will include community deck layout filtering (aka card filtering) as all the base work for it is now done

[Neicudi]

28-11-2018

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New features:

• Layout/Card Filtering for Community Decks: probably the most requested feature for Shared decks. It’s finally here!

On the settings page of the deck you grabbed from the Community Centre, you will now find an extra tab:

Just untick any layouts you don’t want to show up during lessons or reviews and hit save! Kitsun will then do the following things:

• During lessons and reviews, the inactive layouts are being filtered so they won’t show up.

• If a card has no active layouts left, it will be marked as ‘filtered’. This means that you won’t see the card show up at all and it won’t be counted towards progress either. On the cards screen you can now see exactly which cards are filtered or not (just like the hibernated cards):

Whenever you untick or retick one of the layouts, it will recalculate for every card whether it should be filtered or not. So you don’t have to worry about cards staying filtered

So in simple terms: You can now filter cards and layouts from your lessons/reviews (E.g. the sentence cards from the 10k deck, or the Eng -> JP layouts for the Aria deck)

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Bugfixes:

• Flipcards should now be marked correctly on the results screen

• Fixed a field in one of the default Kitsun layouts

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Special note for people who wish to use the layout filtering feature in combination with ‘Sibling filtering’:

If you did 2 out of 3 layouts for a card, and then decide to filter out the last layout with the above feature. The next time the card shows up during reviews it will show one of the 2 done layouts. If you then mark it correct, it will automatically level up as usual and from then on work normally (so the next time it will only require 2 out of 2).

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I kinda expect things to break after this update. I think this was the last super heavy change I still had to make to the system for a while. Let me know if something happens!

[Neicudi]

2018-12-06

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New features:

• Card Status is now being displayed at the ‘All Cards’ (both views), ‘Edit Card’ pages. There are three different statuses:

  • Filtered - Red (the card has no layouts left after filtering, so it is completely disabled)
  • Hibernated - Orange (the card is suspended manually)
  • Queued - Green (the card is manually queued as a priority lesson)
    
    

• The drag toggle is now available inside folders. No more accidental reordering!

• ‘Hungry for more’ popup default value is now 1 and can not go lower.

• Current deck name is now displayed on both the ‘All Cards’ and the ‘Add/Edit Card’ pages.

• Next Review date & time are now displayed on the ‘Edit Card’ page.

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Bugfixes:

• ‘more information’ button should toggle show & hide again during the lesson quiz

• Fixed a wrong value in one of the JLPT Decks.

• Fixed a reactivity bug which made the user unable to select a publishing category

• Queueing a lessons which is already queued will not increase the lesson pool anymore

• Hibernating cards after searching should now set the status correctly.

• Lightning mode caused user synonyms and notes to be skipped while loading the next card. This has been fixed! (90% sure this was the cause of the missing synonyms)

• newly added fields are now correctly removed from the layout if the field does not exist on the previously saved card.

• Fixed a styling problem with the avatars on the kitsun forums.

• Registration complete popup now correctly states that you can log in right away.

• Active state now stays on the drag toggle button.

[Neicudi]

2018-12-16

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New features:

• Instant Jisho flashcards - Added a new sidemenu item called ‘Dictionaries’. This will take you to a page where you can search Jisho (and other language dictionaries in the future) and generate flashcards instantly! It looks like this:
  
  

Clicking the ‘Generate flashcard’ button at the top left of the item will open a popup that looks like this:

In this popup you select the deck you want to generate the card in and you can adjust the values before pressing the button. The generation uses the default kitsun template and the Japanese -> Reading and Japanese -> English layouts.

• New scrollbar - Added new look for the scrollbar

• Landing page - Still a WIP but for the curious few, you can take a look at https://kitsun.io/landing

• Changed the styling of the default kitsun layouts a bit to better utilize space.

• Added an Imports sidemenu item under the Advanced Tools dropdown.

• changed the login and signup page looks

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Bugfixes:

• Lesson/Review bottom buttons should now always be visible without having to scroll the page down.

• Notifications counter will not count hibernated/filtered items anymore

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Sidenote:

I’m also going to make a more advanced Dictionary flashcard generation feature, one where you will be able to match fields to your own templates and your own layouts. That one is coming later

[Neicudi]

2018-12-19

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New Features:

• Overhauled the store styling yet again. It should now be in line with the rest of Kitsun.
  

  

• Changed some more styling (most noticable on the deck dashboard pages) to be more in line with the rest

• Changed the landing page according to feedback, and made the header stick to the top upon scrolling

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Bugfixes:

• Sidemenu is now scrollable

• Jisho flashcards generation - ‘Parts of speech’ shouldn’t add duplicates anymore while generating the values

• After the last update, some buttons were not visible anymore. This has been fixed!

• Login & Signup pages were not scrollable for on IOS devices when the keyboard pops up. This has been fixed.

[Neicudi]

2018-12-23

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New features:

• First version of the landing page is done and set as the default page for https://kitsun.io when you are not logged in. Otherwise it will redirect you to your decks.

• Added a terms of service page (https://kitsun.io/terms) in preparation of launch. When creating an account you will have to accept the terms first. I’m soon implementing a popup which will ask anyone who registered before this update to accept it.

• Community Centre - Added a frontpage sidemenu item which takes you back to the starting page.

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Bugfixes:

• Edit Card Page - Next Review date & time info is now hidden for hibernated and filtered cards.

• Community Centre - The header (search bar and buttons) will not scroll down with you anymore.

• Reviews & Lessons - The content beneath the ‘More Information’ button should now be hidden during reviews as well. Clicking the button will make the content appear as usual

• Dictionaries page - Tags should now always appear below the other information.

• Kitsun N5/N4 JLPT Decks - Updated the layouts to utilize the latest version of the default Kitsun layouts. AKA it looks and wraps better now.

• Fixed the {{addclass:fieldname}} layout field type. It should now correctly add the customstyle class to the ids listed in the field.

• kitsun-click (used to create cards with clickable elements) will now not work when the layout contains a type field as well.

[Neicudi]

2018-12-26

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New Features:

• My Cards page has been added to the sidebar. Clicking it will take you to the corresponding page where you can search through ALL the cards of ALL the decks you have! This is super handy to use when you want to learn a certain item but aren’t sure if it already exists or not. Of course, if it exists, just add it to the front of the learning queue and start right away!

• Card Animations setting - You can now disable ALL layout animations (except the input shakes when inputting a wrong answer). The setting can be found in the general settings of the settings page.

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Bugfixes:

• Fixed an issue where the height of the quiz container was not set, causing some layouts to display the wrong height.

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Update on the launch ETA: About 2-3 weeks! I’ll let you all know asap once I have a specific date!

[Neicudi]

2019-01-06

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New Features:

• Themes: Kitsun now has two dark mode themes! Select them from the settings page!

• {{usersynonyms}} can now be used in your layouts to show all personal synonyms. This is super useful for community decks as users will now instantly see their own synonyms without having to open the popup

• {{usernotes}} can now be used in your layouts to show all personal notes. This works the same as above!

• {{first:fieldname}} field has been added. This can be used to display only the first entry in a comma separated card value. This will reduce the amount of fields that you need in your templates! E.g. Normally you would need both a primary meaning and a all meanings field. The first one would be used to display on the front of the card, whereas the second one would be used to display all possible meanings. So now, if your value is hi, hello, hai, using {{first:fieldname}} will display as just hi.

• Typing in the css and html fields of a layout will now not trigger a complete rerender of the layout until you stop typing for a bit. Meaning it will feel less laggy while editting heavy layouts.

• Additional (svg related) html tags/attributes have been whitelisted for use in layouts.

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Bugfixes:

• Adjusted some pages to look better on lower resolution screens. Hopefully some pages should now feel less huge! Please let me know how it is

• Fixed an issue where hibernating on the my cards page would not work correctly.

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I’d also like to announce that I’m recalculating and rethinking pricing for using Kitsun.

I think I might be able to lower the prices a bit, and perhaps introduce tiers based on what you would like to utilize inside Kitsun. I’ve also been thinking about making certain community decks free to use without a subscription.

Due to this I’m postponing the launch until I figure things out.

Happy belated new year!

[Neicudi]

09-01-2018

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New features:

• Placeholders can now be added to input fields! You can use it like this: {{type:fieldname[placeholdertexthere]}}. E.g: {{type:Meanings[English]}} will result in an input with ‘English’ as the placeholder text. Of course, every type of input supports this same syntax (such as type-ja, spellcheck etc)

• A dark class will be added to all the card wrappers when someone is using one of the dark Kitsun themes. This means that you can change your layouts depending on the theme someone is using! You can use it like this:

.dark{
 .classname{ 
   background: black;
 }
}

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Bugfixes:

• Changed Kit Fox colors to be more in line with the others (in terms of brightness).

• Icons have been added to the subcategories in the community centre sidebar, making them display better when the sidebar is collapsed.

• Community Centre Styling for the top bar/search bar was accidentally removed. This has been reverted.

• Decks now have a minimum height on the decks page, this should result in the deck images looking a bit better (let me know if it worked )

• Sidemenu should now look better for low resolution screens.

• Fixed some dark theme color issues.

• Android page height during lessons/reviews has been fixed, layouts should no longer overflow below the bottom of the screen.

• The back button in the folder view has changed colors in the dark theme.

[Neicudi]

2019-01-13

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New Features:

• {{rest:fieldname}} has been added. It basically does the opposite of the {{first:fieldname}} field type. You can use this to display all entries except the first entry in a comma separated value. In simpler terms: bla, die, bla will display as die, bla.

• Content inside parantheses is now considered as a possible answer when it’s the value being tested on with “type” fields. So say that your value is to row (a boat), to spill, to dance (on a boat, plane or car) it will count the following answers as correct:

  • to row
  • to row a boat
  • to spill
  • to dance
  • to dance on a boat, plane or car

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Bugfixes:

• Fixed a major issue with the advanced csv import. All tags/fields/indexes should now properly get imported.

• Entering n and hitting enter with katakana inputs will now automatically convert it to katakana instead of hiragana.

• Rank up/down notification will now no longer appear on every item for decks with sibling filtering enabled.

• Fixed an issue where the advanced csv import would sometimes create an extra empty card.

• The percentages on the decks page should now be the same as the one shown on the deck dashboard.

[Neicudi]

2019-01-30

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New Features:

• New Default template and layouts have been added!

  • As you can see there are some variations in colors (red/blue/orange depending on the purpose of the card, e.g. readings or meanings) and also a light and dark variant for every purpose.

• You can now propose changes to community deck cards. On the details page of a Community card you can now find the action Propose changes. Clicking this will turn the fields editable and show a comment textarea. You can then edit any value you want and then hit the send button.

  • (This part is coming this weekend!) The author will then receive your feedback/changes and be able to accept or reject it. If they accept, both the original card AND the community card will change instantly.

  • Why did I create this? To lessen the workload of the deck creators (just click to accept changes if you agree to them), and to further reinforce the idea that we as a community are able to make decks perfect by working together.

• You should now be able to click on the audio button (to play the audio) without losing focus of the input field during lessons and reviews.

• Exports: You can now export all cards from your own decks. This can be done on the “Edit Deck” Page. Due to the dynamic nature of templates, the export has to be done PER template.

  • How it works: Select template -> click the button and wait until it starts downloading a .csv file. The values are separated by tabs as using ; or , could result in conflicts.

• Reimports: Now we get to the cool part. Doing an export will allow you to copy paste the resulting file into google sheets/excel or another program of your choice. You can then mass edit all values, save it/paste it back into the file and then re-import this changed data into your deck and into the existing cards without losing any progress! However, it only works when you keep the current structure and keep the IDs intact.

  • Note: If you want to make a new template field and mass edit those values, please first add this to your template inside kitsun, then hit export so it has the field ID that it needs.
  • Another important note is that this feature is VERY EXPERIMENTAL right now. My tests have worked well so far, but please be sure not to use it with important decks for now.

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Bugfixes:

• Rank up/down should now correctly show for decks with the filter siblings setting on.

• Advanced CSV/TXT imports: Tags with spaces will now import correctly

• Push notifications bug has been fixed (for real this time! )

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Misc:

New Light Novel Decks will be added over the course of the next few days. These decks have been generated by parsing the books, matching them with dictionaries and then put into cards using the new default templates.

The books are mostly added out of personal interest, but I’m open for suggestions. Here’s a list:

• Bakemonogatari Vol 1 & 2
• Kizumonogatari Vol 1
• Nisemonogatari Vol 1 & 2
• Haruhi Vol 1 & 2
• Katanagatari Vol 1 & 2
• Kimi no na ha
• Kino’s Journey Vol 1-4
• Konosuba Vol 1 & 2
• I Want To Eat Your Pancreas
• Re:Zero Vol 1 & 2
• Rokka No Yuusha Vol 1 & 2
• Sword Art Online Vol 1 & 2
• Spice and Wolf Vol 1 & 2
• Toradora Vol 1 & 2
• Zero no Tsukaima Vol 1-3

Special:

• Persona 5 (the game) (14k-20k unique vocab omg)

As these books are parsed, there’s sure to be misparses in them. That’s exactly why I created the new feedback system (mentioned above). Together we can easily fix these decks without having to wait on one person (the creator).

[Neicudi]

2019-02-06

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New Features:

• Reviews are now async! This means that you will have 0 delay when going to the next card as the calls will be done in the background. It does mean that if you finish the session earlier than the server calls are done, you will have to wait a bit until it’s done. In those situations it will show you a popup with some information about how many calls are left. Once that’s done it will show you the regular “Session done” popup

  • I am considering doing the same for lessons, let me know if it works well and whether it helps or not!

• Reviews/Lessons - You can now directly propose changes to a card of a community deck while in a review or lesson session. You can find the feature under Actions. Clicking on it will open a popup similar to the Quick Edit popup.

• Dictionary - You can now generate flashcards from Jisho using any template and any layouts you want.

  • Click on “Custom Flashcard” -> Popup opens -> Select Deck, Template, Layouts -> Select which field should have which value -> Edit/Add values where needed -> Done!
  • Your chosen values (Deck, Template, Layouts and matched fields) are saved in a cookie, meaning that if you plan on creating many cards with the same settings, everything will be filled in for you already!

• Quick Edit popup - Improved styling, fields should now fit better.

• Dictionary - Added visual indication whether your search is still loading and how many results have been found.

• Publishing Decks - You can now use html tags inside your public description for the community centre.

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Bugfixes:

• Regex has been fixed for answers with non-closing parantheses (E.g. blabla, bladiebla), blabla)

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By the way, in case someone didn’t notice yet: Kino’s Journey Volume 1 and I want to eat your Pancreas Light Novel decks have been published. I’m publishing more decks tomorrow

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Please let me know if you have issues with doing reviews, since the new async system might cause errors (hopefully it won’t). I think that it should feel tremendously faster for users far away from the Kitsun server.

[Neicudi]

I’ve just added a new default template with non-input layouts.

They are the same as the new default layouts that were added before, but without input fields. So they act as normal “flip” flashcards.

[Neicudi]

2019-02-10

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New Features:

• Feedback system part 2 - Community Deck Authors can now check out the feedback given by other users and accept or reject the changes that were suggested:
  

  • This button on the deck dashboard will take you to the feedback overview of that deck. It shows a count of new feedback (only visible if there are any!)

  • In the table view you will be able to click on a row and a popup will open:
    

  • Here you can see the comment and the proposed changes. The proposed changes are still editable. At the bottom you can choose either accept or reject. Rejecting will delete the feedback, whereas Accepting it will instantly update BOTH the original card (reference) and the community card (copy) with the new values.

• Leeches! - Each Deck Dashboard now displays your top 10 leeches:
  

  
  • It is ranked from lowest percentage correct to highest. A card can only become a leech if it was answered incorrectly at least 4 times.

• Flipcard Mode for Input Cards (AKA Anki mode) - This setting can be found on the Deck Settings page. Enabling it will show the “Flip”, “Next”, “Know” / “Don’t know” buttons at the bottom during Reviews and Lessons. This way you won’t need to fill in any answer even if the cards would usually require you to.

  • Note: the card might show a red input field on the backside (because nothing was entered), but as long as you use the flip buttons, this won’t matter.

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Bugfixes:

• Hibernating a card during lessons, then pressing enter should not hibernate the next card anymore.

• Solved a problem with some super old decks not showing up anymore.

• Quick edit field will now correctly show all fields again.

• Hotkeys are now disabled while the propose changes popup is active.

• Community Decks - Fixed a problem where deleting cards would cause some problems for users.

[Neicudi]

2019-02-13

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New Features:

• Feedback system: Changes proposed by the user are now highlighted when it differs from the original values

• Deck Overview - You can now check how many cards you have in each SRS level specifically. Hover over (or tap on mobile) the fennec or kit counts to see the specific levels.

• New Layout Field: {{enteredanswer}} has been added. This field will display the answer that was entered on the front, or the ID of the element that was clicked (for multiple choice cards). You can use this field only on the backside. Usecase: Showing something like You entered XXX. The answer was ZZZ on the back.

• Multiple Choice Functionality improvements:

  • When Kitsun detects the multiple choice fields, it will remove the default flip buttons at the front during quiz and reviews. This way the user is forced to click one of the options.
  • It will add a next button on the backside, so the user can advance to the next quiz item/review.
  • Clicking one of the options will flip the card and set it as correct or wrong (based on what was clicked). If lightning mode is on and the answer was correct, it will go to the next card right away.
  • the clickedanswer class will be added to the clicked id at the backside of the card. This can be used to give a style to the selected answer.

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Bugfixes:

• {{addclass:ids}} and {{click:ids}} layout types should now properly work on both the back and front side of a card.

[Neicudi]

2019-02-20

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New Features

• Self Study - You can now study any cards you want, at any time without interrupting your SRS progress. Just select the cards you want to study from the All Cards table view (of that specific deck), choose the Self Study option from the actions dropdown and fill in the number of times you want each card to repeat.

  • Since most people want to use this to squash leeches, I’ve added a “book” button to the leeches table which allows you to instantly train all leeches:
    
    
  • Small note: The review count is per sibling card instead of per “main” card.

• Dictionary searches can now be done automatically through the URL. E.g. “https://kitsun.io/dictionary/儂” will now instantly search for 儂 in jisho (in kitsun).

  • I made this because I use an ebook reader (Moon+ Reader) to read LNs and it allows me to fill in a custom dictionary url like the picture below. When I fill in the URL like this, long tapping a word will take me to the dictionary page of kitsun, automatically show the jisho.org entry and let me click the “generate flashcard” button to generate a card for studying right away!

• Deck Dashboard - Added a cookie for the showing/hiding of the leeches block content. It will now remember your preference

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Bugfixes

• Review notifications now longer count firefoxes (burned cards)

• Fixed an issue where certain answers weren’t being accepted.

[Neicudi]

2019-03-03

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New Features:

• Advanced searching through cards should be a lot faster than before. Especially searching by SRSLevels as those could take 20s + and now take ~0.2s (for me at least)

• Success/Error Notifications can now removed by clicking on them (no need to click the X specifically anymore)

Bugfixes:

• Fixed an issue where answers starting with an “S” would not be accepted.

[Neicudi]

2019-03-06

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Bugfixes:

• One of the most annoying and old bugs has finally been fixed! The page no longer resizes when the soft keyboard pops up during reviews/lessons/selfstudy! This means that your card will remain the same on the screen instead of sometimes pushing the text off the screen.

  • Note for users/creators with custom layouts: Please remove “vh” from the styling (if you use it) and just replace it with “%” as the card wrapping div element now has the height in absolute pixel values. I’m currently removing it from all default layouts as well. If you need any help, let me know!

• Fixed a bug where entering quick edit without getting anything wrong could result in a “rank down” visual notification.

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I’m currently still creating the native apps (with offline functionality), but I’m starting to make some real progress on it