• 20 May 2024Minor update : added Progress page to navigation

    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.

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