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Support for Custom Kanji Decks

Alden Geipel — Thu, 18 May 2023 11:39:31 +0000

Please consider adding an option to add custom kanji decks rather than only providing the preset decks to study from. I would like to be able to export kanji learned through jpdb.io through their api and be able to study them in Ringotan. Ideally, this import would be done automatically by interfacing with a Ringotan api but any functionality for custom decks would be extremely useful. If there isn't a planned api for Ringotan, a simple interface where the user would paste all kanji to be included in the custom deck would work. Alternatively, Ringotan could read from a text file containing the kanji to be added. Another option would be to read from a sql lite file to add additional information like sections within the deck. One use case for this is that it would allow importing a deck like https://jpdb.io/anime/1579/non-non-biyori with the ability to seperate each uniquely introduced kanjis in sections for each episode similar to the pre-built decks.

Option to retry a kanji on bad input

easynam — Fri, 19 Aug 2022 08:18:37 +0000

Sometimes, I get a kanji wrong because i accidentally tap the screen somewhere before i even start drawing, etc. In cases like that, it would be good if I could:

- mark as a flubbed input

- retry without recording a success or failure, and without revealing the kanji (as this would tell me the answer)

Currently, the only option when this happens is to mark the answer as incorrect, as the fact that i can see the kanji and didn’t draw it means i can’t just assume i’d have gotten it right.

Show user handwriting on top of the example after completing a question

Anon User — Mon, 01 May 2023 05:25:27 +0000

Sometimes it's really hard to tell if your completed answer has any small visual mistakes, even if you've successfully passed the question. (Optionally) showing the completed user kanji drawing after a successful question would really help with improving the last few inaccuracies I run into when handwriting.

Include way to edit kanji in custom review screen

BlueRaja — Wed, 19 May 2021 20:07:00 +0000

Eg. should be able to select a bunch at once and marked them as "known" or "unknown"

Option to see our FULL handwriting while drawing

Nayelianne — Fri, 22 Sep 2023 12:37:33 +0000

I'm not sure if it's a bug but currently even with the snap feature disabled our own line is visually replaced at every stroke, rather than only when we go off the mark. Worst of all, after getting it correctly there's no way to compare our own full written character to what the correct one was (seeing an animation of the original vs your drawing can be quite eye opening).

So what's been happening is that some times I have the feeling I'm not being totally accurate but can't really tell because as soon as I lift my pencil my original line is gone (and it's super thin while drawing), and the snapping kinda encourages me to never really have to properly learn to stabilize things myself because the app is showing me a pretty image no matter what I do.

Even at the strictest setting you can really get carried away with not following the proper proportions for stroke lengths, and it's only when you go write the character freestyle somewhere else that you realize all the bad habits you picked up while never being aware of how haphazardous our writing truly was all along.

Sooo if having our own writing displayed as we write unless we go off the guidelines isn't a possibility, at the very least it would be nice to have a whole preview on the side of what you're actually doing behind the pretty snapped image, and a way to compare it to what it should have been at the end (since currently pressing the green checkmark only displays the last stroke - and very thinly too)

Show time spent studying today

Blue Raja — Sat, 09 Jul 2022 07:01:20 +0000

sync support

airblaster — Wed, 24 Jan 2024 00:02:01 +0000

Hello,

I'm wondering if sync support (icloud or any other way) is a planned feature.

I'm considering buying an iPad with an Apple Pencil for more precise drawing, but I would still want to sync the progress with my iPhone since I take it with me much more often.

I tried an Adonit Dash 4 active pencil on my iPhone but up to 5% of the strokes aren't accurately detected which is pretty annoying for the Ringotan usecase.

Multiple Device Sync Support

Andy — Sat, 13 Jul 2024 21:24:52 +0000

This has previously been requested but I think has been misunderstood on what's being asked. While your app does automatically back up it's progress from a database perspective, it does not currently share this database across separate devices. This is something that needs to be explicitly setup.

As an example, I currently have your app running on both an iPhone and an iPad. Any progress made on the iPhone is not actively synchronized to the app instance on the iPad. The cloud sync that you currently have is simply maintaining a backup of the app in the case of needing to restore a device.

Here are links to the developer documentation and sample code for using native CloudKit, which would enable the functionality I am referring to:

https://developer.apple.com/icloud/cloudkit/
https://developer.apple.com/documentation/cloudkit/
https://developer.apple.com/documentation/cloudkit/enabling_cloudkit_in_your_app
https://github.com/apple?q=cloudkit-sample&type=repository

I would greatly appreciate a way to sync progress between multiple devices and it would bring another layer of functionality to an already amazing app. I know myself and many others would find it incredibly helpful since I'm often switching between my phone and an iPad when I study. As it stands currently, there is no way to do this concurrently and have progress match between devices, which becomes quite frustrating.

If I can help with testing or need to go into any further detail, I'd be happy to! Thanks so much for creating Ringotan, it's helped me so much in my learning progress.

- Andy

Add option to send notifications

BlueRaja — Sat, 28 Jan 2023 22:10:37 +0000

to remind user to do reviews

Ability to review ahead even when no reviews are due

BlueRaja — Thu, 24 Jun 2021 17:34:48 +0000

Currently it's only possible to review ahead if there's at least one review due. The user does that review, and is then asked if they'd like to continue with reviews that aren't due.

They should have this ability even if there are no reviews overdue.

Add a way to save the list of learned kanji on the clipboard

Laynor — Fri, 29 Sep 2023 06:37:28 +0000

First, would like to thank you for Ringotan, I'm using it daily and it's helping me a lot! Best part is I'm not getting tired of it and I'm keeping my efforts ^^

I use Satori reader, and I want to hide the furigana for the kanji that I learned on Ringotan.

It would be enough to copy the list on the clipboard for further editing maybe in some notepad app.

Another possibility is saving some file in an easily accessible location. In the case of iOS, something that can be accessed with the Files app would be best. But the clipboard is good enough I believe!

Best regards,

Alessandro

Add a dark mode

BlueRaja — Sun, 28 Jan 2024 03:18:30 +0000

Allow us to view a list of which Kanji are at aka-chan, gakusei, senpai, tensai, and sensei levels.

Joshua — Mon, 26 Aug 2024 14:07:59 +0000

There are a lot of Kanji I haven't seen for a while, guessing they are all at sensei level. Would like to be able to see them to verify I recall what they are.

Let you choose the folder to save the back up to

Jeremiah McElroy — Sat, 25 Oct 2025 21:27:57 +0000

Not all users have a computer available, if we could just choose the folder to back up to(or even just save it to a file accessible from the phone like documents) then it would be pretty trivial to save it to a cloud service like google drive.

Having so much work just to back up means users might not backup often enough and lose progress.

Add filter for "Time to next review" also

BlueRaja — Sat, 12 Nov 2022 21:05:21 +0000

Don't snap drawing to kanji

BlueRaja — Sun, 28 Jan 2024 17:56:28 +0000

Need to figure out a way to do this without a bad user experience.

Idea: Add new options for "fail immediately" and "default success state"

Start by Prompting Without Hints

sanaxoh946 — Thu, 08 Feb 2024 20:09:39 +0000

It would be nice to have an option to start by directly prompting a kanji with an empty canvas, and only going through the learning steps if we mess up on the first encounter.

For people that already learnt kanji by recognition (which should be a majority), this would speed up the learning process tremendously, especially for the simpler kanji.

"Custom Review" should be in random order

BlueRaja — Fri, 02 Aug 2024 23:38:50 +0000

When reviewing the items in custom review, the order should be randomized

Make a comprehensive kanji lesson

BlueRaja — Sat, 12 Oct 2024 00:57:43 +0000

Currently, no lesson contains every kanji supported by Ringotan. We should create one that does.

compound word study

Nebumune — Sun, 27 Apr 2025 15:44:46 +0000

This might be a lot to ask, or it could be very easy to implement depending on how the app was created. I was wondering if a new mode could be added for compound word study.
Nothing major — imagine that after pressing the "Study" button, you have the classic single-kanji study option, plus a second option for compound words.

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.