Glad to have you here @Narasumas!! I wonder what language you are studying through Kitsun, possibly Japanese? Regardless, I wish you the best of luck in your learning experience!
Cheers and welcome to Kitsun! Glad to have you on board
Thanks! I’m learning Japanese. I spent a year or two “finding my way” without any real good structure or tool set (that was a waste of time!), but over the last 1-2 years have been doing WaniKani, BunPro and some other SRS systems. Working through Genki as well. Anki was just too much for me. I liked how Kitsun was structured, so the holiday sale felt like a good time to jump in and start chipping away at the Core 10k.
Quick app question— Do you know if there will be support for notifications/badges? I group all of my 日本語 apps in one folder, and it’s nice to see how many reviews I have at a glance. The badges help with that. Just a suggestion. Thanks!
Also, unrelated question. When working through the Core 10k deck, is there a way to randomize the order I’m given my lessons in? Or is that not the recommended way of going through the deck? I saw it’s set for “indexed” order, but I also can’t see where I can change that. I still need to dig through some FAQ’s and learn more about Kitsun.
You mean push notifications for reviews right? They are currently supported (on the browser version) on every platform except iOS devices due to Apple not allowing those for websites. The iOS app will definitely have push notifications available though!
Generally speaking I’d recommend following the indexed order for the 10k deck as it goes from easier (and most common) to harder vocabulary. For personal decks you can change the lesson order by yourself in the deck settings. For community decks the order is set by the creator to make sure users study it in the recommended order. Eventually this will also tie in with the upcoming “level” system where deck creators can choose to create levels out of cards in their decks.
So as an example, a level could consist of learning kanji -> learning associated vocab in the second level -> learning kanji in the next level and so forth.
Or perhaps having a level per vocabulary “theme”, lots of possibilities
Working on revamping that section as we speak! The current help section is very outdated, so let me know if you need any help or have any questions!
This looks incredible! So many apps do a half-hearted job on good UI, but this looks on point!
Minor detail: the image on the left side of each deck entry in the Personal and Community deck pages are a little too big. Yes, it looks cool, but it seems to be taking too much screen real estate.
Edit: Correction as I am still unable to differentiate between left and right.
Hello, I do all my reviews with the app, is there a way to add synonyms while doing them?
It’s on my priority to-do list to add this and the feedback popup to the apps!
I’ve tried to download the beta, but keep getting a notification saying safari can’t open the link: image|231x500
Any suggestions?
Thanks,
Toffer
Do you have TestFlight (apple app) installed? It looks to me like it’s trying to open the Kitsun app link in safari instead of TestFlight. If you don’t have it installed yet, you can install it with the “View in App Store” link and then return to this page to get the Kitsun Beta app.
Let me know if it works!
Thanks for the response.
I do already have TestFlight installed. I had removed it from my phone and downloaded it again, just in case that was the issue. But still no luck.
I take it back. I’ve now got it working. When I said I’d reinstalled TestFlight, it turns out I did no such thing. Appreciate your time however.
Haha, glad it’s solved!
Hey @Neicudi— quick question. Does the mobile iOS app support keyboard shortcuts? I frequently use (1) correct, (2) incorrect (i) ignore ® read, etc. when running through cards…but didn’t seem to see this in the app. Is this capability in the app at the moment?
You can select your specific deck -> deck settings -> at the bottom is ‘Always Show Flip Buttons’. There is no ‘ignore’…never understood the utility in anki (either you know it or don’t). This is the same path for desktop but you can specify your keyboard shortcuts in setting (hamburger menu)
I understand that, I was specifically asking if the hotkey settings in the attached photo are (or will be) supported in the iOS app. One more quick note Neicudi, I’m using an iPad with a keyboard folio…and for some reason I don’t think keyboard hardware is supported. I could be wrong though. The iOS app only accepts typed answers with the touch screen at the moment, and nothing happens when I try to use the keyboard. Maybe it’s just a bug on my end. I’ll try to tinker around. In the meantime, I’ll go back to the iOS browser version. Also, I use the ignore feature when I sound out an answer in my head, but sometimes hit a typo when typing fast. If I truly knew it, I like to hit “ignore” and get a chance to fix the hastily done typo. If I don’t know it, I don’t.
Apologies, my misunderstanding… Some instances, I’m just using swipe ‘hot keys’, so instead of typing just flip ‘up’ then left or right for correct/incorrect. I would think that would be much easier than an ios keyboard hotkey. I’m sure Neicudi will give a better answer here tho
Hey!
The hardware keyboard not working during reviews (for iOS devices) is a known problem with the framework I’m using to develop the apps. Someone else is also eagerly waiting for the fix so I’m often looking up the status of the issue
The good news is that since a few days ago a fix was finally merged into the framework (although perhaps not yet on the branch that I’m using for the Kitsun apps) and it’s on my list to take a look at this week! If all goes well I’ll only have to update to the latest version of the framework and it should be fixed in the next update
For now I’d also recommend using the swipe gestures instead (up to flip, left/right to mark. I’d advise looking at the visual feedback before you release the drag/swipe the first few times to make sure you don’t mark it wrong by accident)
As you usual…you rock!! Keep it up, you’ve got a hell of an ecosystem you are building. Rooting you on. Cheers