The Minor Annoyances Thread

[Neicudi]

I would love to see an option to only show the back of the card once all siblings are completed - that way you can get tested on reading, then meaning without the answer for one spoiling the other.

We have a “Blur spoilers” setting in the deck settings that does this for you, it prevents the autoplay of audio and blurs out the spoiler texts on siblings. I’m not 100% sure if the 10k deck layouts make use of this feature, but it would not be difficult for @hinekidori to add this

I love lightning mode, but I also love having the audio play when I flip each card over. Would be sweet to have audio play during lightning mode. Even better would be having the option to play audio only once, after all card siblings are completed (or just after “reading” layout is completed).

If I’m understanding it correctly, I think that could cause some issues with cards that have the audio on the front. You mean it should play after finishing a card and when you are at the next one?

When managing cards and “Adding to front of lesson queue” I would love to see an option to add the card in both the Vocab deck and the Sentence deck simultaneously (using the core 10K deck here).

I think this could work in tandem with a feature I plan on releasing in the future. The feature will unlock certain cards after finishing others. So finishing card A could unlock card B and C and so forth. I’ll keep it in mind!

Thank you very much for the support! Happy to have you on board!

[takanuva]

We have a “Blur spoilers” setting in the deck settings that does this for you, it prevents the autoplay of audio and blurs out the spoiler texts on siblings. I’m not 100% sure if the 10k deck layouts make use of this feature, but it would not be difficult for @hinekidori to add this

Gotcha, that’s what that setting is supposed to do. Yeah, it didn’t seem to work for me in the 10K deck.

I think this could work in tandem with a feature I plan on releasing in the future. The feature will unlock certain cards after finishing others. So finishing card A could unlock card B and C and so forth. I’ll keep it in mind!

I like it, that sounds like fun!

If I’m understanding it correctly, I think that could cause some issues with cards that have the audio on the front. You mean it should play after finishing a card and when you are at the next one?

Yeah, that was sort of the idea. Basically I had the “Vocab Listening” layout turned off and I noticed when doing reviews in lightning mode like this, the audio wasn’t ever playing unless I got a word wrong. I’ve since changed my mind and decided to activate all the layouts again and am finding I am hearing audio for each word plenty.

Probably a fringe case, but there may be a few people who deactivate “Vocab Listening” layout + activate Lightning Mode but still want to autoplay audio for a card when they get it right.

[flowsnake]

• Sometimes pressing Enter in lesson quizzes (and maybe reviews) will open the Propose Changes window instead of inputting my answer. I can’t reproduce it consistently and I just saw it in WK Expansion Pack but it may also be in others.

• Adding a synonym in the first stage of a lesson doesn’t work. It isn’t there when I get to the quiz. Adding it at the lesson quiz or review does work fine. I think this applies to all decks.

[steph-dm]

• Sometimes pressing Enter in lesson quizzes (and maybe reviews) will open the Propose Changes window instead of inputting my answer. I can’t reproduce it consistently and I just saw it in WK Expansion Pack but it may also be in others.

For the first point, it also happened to me and it was bothering me too
I noticed it happened if I kept the ‘E’ key held after validating an answer. It opens it, so I figured it was a shortcut and I updated it here:

[flowsnake]

Thanks, I’ll give that a try. I didn’t even know there were hotkeys!

[Neicudi]

Sometimes pressing Enter in lesson quizzes (and maybe reviews) will open the Propose Changes window instead of inputting my answer. I can’t reproduce it consistently and I just saw it in WK Expansion Pack but it may also be in others.

I noticed it happened if I kept the ‘E’ key held after validating an answer. It opens it, so I figured it was a shortcut and I updated it here:

Oh that’s really helpful, I couldn’t reproduce the problem when I checked it before. I’ll try it again and figure out a fix with this new knowledge!

Adding a synonym in the first stage of a lesson doesn’t work. It isn’t there when I get to the quiz. Adding it at the lesson quiz or review does work fine. I think this applies to all decks.

Thanks! Adding it to the bugfix list!

[s1212z]

I’ve been finished with this deck but there are some lingering lessons I can’t access. I see them in management with no SRS level so they are there. Every time I click on lessons, I get the Done message. @Neicudi, would you be able to take a look if you have a chance?

[Neicudi]

Fixed!

Seems like you previously learned/hibernated or filtered these cards (around dec 2019) and somehow it didn’t update accordingly when it got removed/demoted or something similar. Do you happen to remember what happened to the cards before this?

It’s been a long time since then, so I’m assuming the issue causing it not to update correctly is fixed by now, but I’d like to doublecheck just in case ^^

[s1212z]

Works great, thank you!

I think this may have been related to the ‘move to other deck’ feature right when it came out or I may have reset progress on some of these cards at one point (could be both)…hard to remember.

[Neicudi]

Thanks, yeah I can imagine haha I’ll double check the demotion call but I’m guessing it was already fixed in the past year

[user4]

If back audio is set to autoplay and I give an incorrect answer, I hear the correct answer and I miss the opportunity to remember it by myself
For now, I disabled the Back audio autoplay for this reason but it would be nice to have Back audio autoplay only for correct answers !

[mrryansan]

Just wanted to bump this. It would be great to organize texts. I love the Reader feature! Folders would be great, and also the ability to re-arrange the texts would be nice too. I currently add texts from a numbered series and that is how I title them. Sometimes I go out of order, so the numbers (in the titles) are out of sequence and it would be nice if I could drag them into order.

[trafto]

Hi

When I import a list of words manually, would it be possible to have it automatically be feed by the dictionnary (Jisho) ?

The other automatic Kitsun option talks about creating a new deck at every import of words, though I’d want to import a list of words in an already existing deck when I store line by line words after a session of reading a LN / watching a video.

Other remark, I wonder if it would be possible to have the frequency of words when they appear on the dictionnary page.

Thank you for your hard work

[user4]

Hello trafto
I had about the same issue a couple months ago : Is it possible to automatically create flashcards from just a list a japanese words?
I ended up by adding words from my existing list one by one using the dictionary (which was quicker than I expected) and I’m adding new words using Kitsun.io Search for Firefox (there is also Search Kistun Chrome extension)
You could use some tools to translate them in Anki and then import them to Kitsun but I found it cleaner to just use Kitsun’s dictionary tool (I could check which translations I wanted, I had kitsun’s generated audio and I could see the wanikani level so I didn’t add the ones I would learn there soon)

[Neicudi]

Hey @trafto !

I think there’s definitely a way to do this if we take the dictionary the reading tool uses (JMDict, which Jisho.org is based on). The reading tool has a feature coming up where you can view, filter and sort all vocabulary in the text and create flashcards from there (e.g the most frequent words in the text). Perhaps this same concept could be used as the basis for an import. But until that import arrives, you could just paste the wordlist into the reading tool and use the above mentioned feature when it gets implemented. Although the card creation process will still not be fully automated, it would at least make it easy to add cards with a few clicks.

The thing with mass producing cards like that is that there’s always bound to be words that have the wrong definition or an overload of available definitions , so manually checking and changing the cards will probably always be needed first.

I’d love to add it though as I think the feature would really make it even easier to generate your own cards. So it’s definitely on my prio list!

Other remark, I wonder if it would be possible to have the frequency of words when they appear on the dictionnary page.

The Jisho API that Kitsun uses does not return a frequency other than “Newspaper Rank X” so right now it would not be possible to do so without creating a frequency database to enrich the data with. I think it would be cool to do so in the future as the reading tool could also leverage the data.

[s1212z]

I’m seeing several small 20 card deck being shared in the community centre, some intended just for other individuals (not community). This seems pretty sub-optimal and clutters the list. I think private sharing would help clean this and allow the burden of copyright property on the publisher (not Kitsun) if users choose to do so, as long as they can validate purchase…maybe even Subs2Kitsun decks, IDK. Just throwing an idea out there, I haven’t check the Kitsun work list if this is a possible feature or how painful to implement.

For now, it would I think it would help for frequent users to rate decks more often so rated decks can float to the top when organized by rating. I think this would help new users to navigate community decks better (all users really). If I use one, I try to rate. If users are posting all their personal decks, I hope the content is valuable to others or has a general theme (not just random dirty laundry).

[Neicudi]

I think what you describe is kind of bound to happen when the website keeps on growing. As you mentioned the rating of a deck along with the amount of users using the deck should give a bit of an indication of the quality/general usefulness of the deck (although there are exceptions of course).

Having a private sharing feature has been on my list since the community centre was added actually, but it kinda took a backseat as the community centre was fulfilling the needs for 95% of the cases.

[ccookf]

So I’ve been sort of using the edit screen from clicking on items in the review results to actually go back and double check some things (I know it’s kind of weird), but… that screen doesn’t seem to have a back button. It does have a propose changes that looks big, eye catching, and very similar to the back to deck button on the review results screen. It’s also very happy to tell me that I’ve successfully sent changes to author when I haven’t actually changed anything.

My apologies to the deck authors for that last one.

[Neicudi]

It does have a propose changes that looks big, eye catching, and very similar to the back to deck button on the review results screen.

I’ll check if I can add a back button

[ulurujamman]

Hey - not sure whether this has been raised before or not, but is there any possibility of getting rid of the picture prompts in the Core 10k that literally just are pictures of the work being tested? e.g. the picture prompt for 潔い, which is a book cover with the word ‘Gallant’ on it. I’m assuming these have all been automatically generated from google image search or something, and most of them are fine or at least unobtrusive, but a few of them really give the game away.

Also would really appreciate it if more of the prompts for compounds with multiple readings (e.g. 方々 as either かたがた meaning ‘people’ or ほうぼう meaning ‘all directions’) could specify which one they’re looking for in some way. I notice that some words (上/かみ for ‘people in authority’) do have a little note, so I’m guessing this is being actively updated already?

Thanks for your work as always