This is still somewhat half finished, but since I don’t really feel like working on it and the questions answered here do come up all the time I think it is time to publish it.
In general I recommend actually reading through all the settings and the official FAQ once. They explain a lot.
What is the coverage number on decks?
- Its how much of the vocab in the deck you know weighted by the amount of occurences.
- AAABB <- if you know A but not B its 60% coverage
Why do nothing and something give me the same 2min interval?
- After a failure (nothing/something) you won’t get a review interval but a failure interval instead (2min default)
- Only after getting the card correct once will its review be scheduled by the scheduler again.
What coverage to go for
- https://www.sinosplice.com/life/archives/2016/08/25/what-80-comprehension-feels-like
- When I was still pre learning I liked to stop at 90% coverage, its a good tradeoff between coverage and effort required.
Word limits
- 60k for non patreons, 200k for patreons
- deck limit: 10k, 50k for patreons
- if you hit it you will get a server error telling you to remove cards
The mpv plugin does not work for me. Why?
- Check that you have a version with luajit enabled installed.
- You can check this via a console command
mpv -v | grep luajit - Homebrew users had some issues with the version from there.
- Also make sure that your firewall doesn’t block it.
Will deleting the last deck that contains a card delete that cards history?
No. It just won’t show up in your reviews until a deck containig it is added again.
What does abandoning do?
- Takes all currently due cards (with the due + failure state) and inserts an abandoned marker into their history.
- They will be treated is if their history was reset for all purposes.
How do I make a top X frequency deck?
- There is a button for that at the bottom of https://jpdb.io/learn
Can Kanji cards be marked as known?
No. But they can be blacklisted.
Can I export my known kanji?
- here: https://jpdb.io/export/known-kanji.csv
- this includes only the ones in a known state
Can I see the front of the review queue somehow?
No. Best make a FORQ deck instead. This means putting a deck at the top of your learning order in which you put vocab instead of adding it to the front of review queue.
Is Bunpro any good?
- it works
- lots of people that use jpdb use it
- it can feel very punishing if you are not consistent with it
- whatever you do don’t rush into adding lots of cards, its even worse than (old) anki with overwhelming people