I'm sorry for the lack of news lately. I am still recovering from an episode of high stress last year. Just wanted to say hi and yes I am still here. I got an email that said "Are you alive?" that made me chuckle. Yes I am alive. :) I was put on Xanax last year and I didn't like it so I have been focusing on tapering off over the summer. Health is otherwise pretty decent I am not complaining.

It's just been difficult to get focused time since last year. I am trying. Last month there was a bout of a couple weeks where I learned about lit-html and did a bunch of refactoring around that. It was fun and I recommend developers to check out the stand alone "lit-html" library if you've been wanting the power of Vue templating without all the reactivity overhead and without having to use ".vue" files.

I want to thank everyone for your continued support and keeping the site afloat!

I'm sharing a very first draft mockup for what could be a new dialog, improving the navigation between Study pages.

Check out the thread over at github. I am brainstorming mostly at the design stage. I'm going with the idea I've had for a long time of having a grid of kanji, a visual sense of where I'm at when I want to move between Study pages.

The second goal would be to also work as a Restudy List - where the sidebar doesn't give us enough room to play with especially on mobile.

With your feedback I'll iterate on the design.

A small fix deployed today to address an error in how the SRS bar chart displays flashcard counts when it is "compacted" in portrait mode (typically viewing on a smartphone).

When viewing the SRS chart in portrait mode on a small display, the total number of displayed boxes has to be reduced. To avoid scrolling sideways, the due/undue totals for box 8,9,10, etc. are added up into the last displayed box labelled "7+".

There was a bug here that would cause an incorrect due/undue count to be displayed, along with "flattening" the rest of the chart since the last pile was artificially higher. This bug had no effect on flashcards or reviews, just the way the bar chart is displayed.

Thanks to KanjiKalvin for reporting issue 329 on Github!

The "View All Lessons" page (previously known as "Check progress") is now linked to directly in the main desktop and mobile navigation. This closes issue 172.

I've only ever received one request for this, but then again why not.

A surprisingly simple state of things that quickly gets more complex when you think about it.

The site grew from the Study pages and the "Check progress" page was added as an afterthought.

Today If I did things from scratch I would perhaps have the "All Lessons" as the entry door. While it could be daunting to see a huge grid of kanji, it could also be fun and satisfying to turn the boxes into green boxes for example. But it would also be jumping point to get into the Study pages.

Right now the "All Lessons" page is a bit confusing to me because it does two things:

• it CAN be used to navigate : when you expand a lesson you can click any of the keywords to jump to the corresponding Study page - however you have to expand any given lesson to do that
• it shows your progress in the form of a sort of "progress bar" for each lesson - this is partly for legacy reasons, in that it mimicks very much the old "Check progress" page but now lets you peek inside each lesson

On paper it sounds like a great idea if we had a huge "kanji poster" of sorts, but as you can see when you expand a lesson it takes a lot of space. If we had a grid as a sort of overall progress and navigation to the Study pages, I guess I would have to remove the keywords, and have them as a tooltip, so the grid can be more compact.

Another issue is once you have such a entry page, is it takes a lot of space, and doesn´t really leave much space for dashboard as we have now. There would also be no space for the blog below.

Still I feel like something is missing when navigating the Study pages. One idea would be some kind of powerful search popup, it might display a grid, and be filtered by "Restudy kanji" for example. The popup would need to be scrollable inside since it would be too long. It would have to be very compact as well with keywords only showing as tooltip. But I think that could be one way of ¨situating" oneself when moving through the Study pages, to have a better sense of the big picture.

It's something I need to mull over for issue 339 whereby we'd want a way to navigate to the Restudy kanji while on any given Study page. Now I could have a popup for that on the sidebar for example, but it could also fit into the search I mentioned above. Think of it like a "minimap".

Feel free to share some ideas you've had for the Study page. It might help me crystallize how to go about this.