WaniKani’s dashboard has a new Lessons Button area called “Today’s Lessons.” Now when you start your Lessons, instead of getting ALL available Lessons, you will be given a batch of Lessons created by the WaniKani Alligatorithm™️.
The new default Lessons button will start by giving you a smaller batch of Lessons, depending on how many Lessons you have available. This smaller batch of Lessons will help you to do your Lessons more regularly and consistently. This will help you to avoid Review dumps, typically caused by doing too many Lessons in one sitting. We will also mix in different item types into your Today’s Lessons batch. Mixing the item types you learn will help you to contextualize individual items more effectively while strengthening their recall speed and strength.
When you finish all of your Today’s Lessons, you’re done for the day! That said, you gluttons for punishment can always use the “Advanced” tab and choose to do more (or all) of your Lessons.
You’ll also notice that the counts shown at the top of the page have been updated to represent the current remaining lessons for the day. This is a change from before where the count showed the total number of lessons still to do overall.
The Lesson Picker is a page that allows you to see all your unlocked items in one place, and choose exactly what items you’d like to learn in your Lessons during your next session.
The Lesson Picker is aimed at WaniKani “power users” — experienced WaniKani users who know the system really well, and have reached the stage where they want to be able to tweak it, and have more freedom over what they learn and when.
There are a few reasons why you might want to customise your lesson queue as an experienced WaniKani user. For example, to keep your motivation up on a day you’re feeling tired, perhaps you select only the Lessons you really feel like studying that day, or the vocabulary that are based on kanji you already know well, to reduce the mental load. Or perhaps you want to fine-tune your schedule and you know how to do it by selecting only radicals, or only vocabulary, or by finishing lower level items only and avoiding levelling up.
Maybe you already know some of the vocabulary (lower-level additions, kana-only additions, etc.) or you don’t want to learn them for some reason (baseball vocab, anyone? ⚾️), so you want to skip those items. Having more say over what you’re learning will help you get where you want to be faster, and stay motivated along the way.
In other words, we hope that this page will give experienced WaniKani users much more control over what you’re learning, and keep you motivated for the long haul.
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