At the top of most kanji there's about 6 example words with different readings, which is great but it also means that for each kanji, if I wanted to add all 6 words to anki, I'd at minimum need to swap keyboards like 12 times!

A lot of this could be eased by making the kanji and the hiragana selectable so we can copy the text into the devices clipboard, allowing me to just paste it into Anki directly.

Current sessions, even set to "few" are almost 20 at a time.  I'm having to make mistakes with most of these as I refresh my memory on each of them.

The huge review size is making both the time and frustration for each review batch oppressive, especially if I make two mistakes in a row for any item and get dropped into idiot mode.

Can we get an option for a "Tiny" batch size of 5?  That would make it much for accessible for me to drop in and do a small set when I have a few minutes throughout my day.  20 requires a significant time investment and mental energy if you are making any notable amount of mistakes.

The original post is: “Option to reveal answer after drawing”.

I would like to revive the discussion of this potential feature, as while I understand and appreciate the hesitation from the developer, I still believe it has a lot of value as an optional “advanced mode” for kanji you have already learned to a high degree.

I will repost my comments here:

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I would like to re-request this one, on the basis that it be an optional mode.

I feel the same as @airblaster, I am being influenced by seeing the strokes being revealed as I draw - I sense that I am being given subtle hints (e.g for the 月 radical, is it full height or should I leave space at the bottom for something else to fit? Does this one include the flick at the bottom or not?). I feel that my own recall is not being fully tested.

I also take the point from @BlueRaja about the auto marking system not being able to handle this kind of Freeform input - so how about allowing us to mark our own answer as correct or not when in this mode? After all, we already have this self-marking feature now - if we feel the auto-marking has been unfair (or too fair!) to us, we can override its decision.

I reiterate, this would be an optional mode, not the default. I agree that the best way to learn initially is the way the app does it now. But as a learner gets more advanced, I think it helps to be able to draw from memory alone.

As a potential implementation detail, I believe this would work best as an additional “review style”.

If we define the other styles as being, in order:

* Faint template with each stroke prompted in order
* Faint template with no prompts
* No template with each stroke prompted in order
* No template with pseudo-random stroke prompted after each correct stroke
* No template and no prompts, but after each correct stroke the blue line is painted in

…then what I’m suggesting would be another review style that would come next:

* No template, no prompts, no blue lines painted in, user submits their own final answer before revealing the template, and user has to judge their answer as correct or not (a bit like Anki).

In this sense, the new style is just a logical progression on from the others. Perhaps it would not appear in your reviews until you had sufficiently mastered it in the “easier” styles.

What I’m trying to say is that I still see value in the existing review styles *in the beginning*. But to take it to the final level of mastery, I would like to see this new review style as a feature.

I know that you can change at will, but (correct me if i am wrong) when I finished my daily study of beginner, even if I switch deck, my lessons to reviews will still be at 0. Meaning that if I want to study the same deck everyday, I can’t go to another one.

and thanks for that wonderful app, it’s the best I’ve known so far to write kanjis!

Even just doing something like sorting the x and y coordinates of the the endpoints of the answer and making sure that the same thing for what the user has drawn so far is a subsequence of that would help a lot!

For this an option to read out multiple words, either all or once for each different reading of the kanji, would be useful. 

But these are years old, and there is some additional things I want to say.

Sometimes when I forget a kanji, I simply tap and drag where I think the nearest stroke starts, and then the snap then reminds me of how to write the kanji in full.

Problem is, this isn't really considered "mastery" of the kanji, since I had to be reminded how to write it via "cheating" using the stroke snapping.

Hence, I think this should be an additional optional final level where this happens, ensuring the user has full memorization of the character.

At the same time, there is a large space at the bottom that is not taken up by the kanji view, nor the definition list, so I thought instead of the definition list being shown horizontally, hidden away by the next/previous arrows, what if, the definitions are placed in cells that is vertically scrollable?

Excuse my terrible MSPaint drawing, but something like this:

Hopefully, this will make learning to read faster, as multiple examples can be seen a glance, without the added effort of pressing anything.

Besides that, in kanji that are homonyms of other kanji, there is a need to disambiguate by looking at more word definitions, so this will assist in that area.

I only wish we had more control over how much to learn. I can't limit my new Characters so that I study at my own Pace, so I have to awkwardly manually stop learning and then only do reviews the next Day.

To which you responded:

There is an option called "Limit New Kanji Per Day" which allows you to limit how often new kanji are introduced.

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The "Limit New Kanji Per Day" Option is very static in saying "Only learn 2 new Kanji every 0,5 days", which still doesn't necessarily align with the Learning Speed I may have.
What I'm looking for is something more akin to the "Custom study" Feature for Anki Decks, which I use in tandem with Ringotan. In there it has the Option to choose how many Kanji to learn that Day. I like to go in certain Batches with the Heisig Book (making them thematically similar or stopping before a new Chapter), so the Amount of new Kanji I actually want to study varies each Day.

right now it's either "9", or "2 every 0,5 Days". To work around that, I abuse the Reviews blocking new Kanji. So for Example if I only get 5 new Kanji because of my Review Count, I can review some of them, opt out and then it's maybe 7 instead. And if I go through all my remaining Reviews and new Kanji at once then, I can learn 16 new Kanji that Way (hypothetical Example, I don't always want to do that many, but it was nicer to have my Kana Review Session stop right before Katakana or Kanji started respectively).

I hope that painted a better Picture of what I was hoping for.
Thank you very much for reading and for your hard Work!

This is useful when you start a session, but get tired in the middle of it and still don't want to lose progress on those kanji you already started answering.

This second option would work just like the first one, but instead of a single character slot, there would be multiple slots for a specific word. For example, if the question is "警察":

• The app says the word aloud and shows its meaning, just like usual.

• Two character slots would appear instead of one.

• You would be expected to write both kanji, one after the other, from memory into the two slots.

A possible feature could be to only include compounds made up of kanji you've already learned in the normal mode. So you wouldn't see "警察" unless you had already studied both "警" and "察" individually. The more kanji you learn, the more compound words would become available.

I imagined this as an add-on to complement the main study. For example, after reaching "Tensai" or "Senpai" level and above with a new kanji, related compounds could become available in the second mode, alongside other kanji at the same level.

Possible challenges would include screen space limitations or difficulties in implementation depending on how the app was originally designed.

This would be especially useful for all the N1-and-beyond kanji that WaniKani doesn't cover.