jpdb FAQ

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. ...

2023-11-20 Â· Kampffrosch

abandon your failures

JPDB does not have an auto suspend feature for leeches like anki. If you are a patreon you can use a couple labs features together to approximate something similar. I reckon this is not useful for total beginners. For me it reduces my review load substantially. Setup In Labs Settings: Activate “show failed cards last” and “cycle through failed cards before showing them again”. Review Review as you normally do. At some point you will only have failed cards left. Go through these once or twice (this is why we enabled cycling). ...

2023-09-07 Â· Kampffrosch

one year of jpdb

Hi, my name is Kampffrosch and I learn Japanese using various tools. Yesterday I hit a milestone of 365 continuous days of study using jpdb, so I thought it would be a good time to review my Japanese learning journey. the dark ages 2015 some friends I knew from school asked me if I wanted to take some Japanese classes with them. Since I was watching tons of anime at the time I thought “Sure, might as well learn a language while I am at it.” Things weren’t quite that easy. I had other things on my plate and did not want to actually focus on Japanese. So after 2 years of classes (and not doing pretty much anything besides that) I got to a level where I could probably have passed the N5 but not much else. ...

2023-03-25 Â· Kampffrosch