掲示板 Forums - Too many study vectors enabled—need advice on streamlining

Hey everyone,

I’m pretty new to Renshuu and I think I went a little overboard with my study settings. I’ve got six vectors enabled for my vocabulary schedules (Kanji → Kana, Kana → Kanji, Japanese → Meaning, Meaning → Japanese, Listening, and Practice Writing), and honestly, my review pile is getting out of hand. The app warned me that more than 3 vectors can slow down progress, and I’m starting to see why.

I’m working through beginner-level vocab (N5 range) and I’ve got multiple schedules going at once—“Words for Beginner Japanese,” “Words for Japanese Basics,” “Beginner Kanji (N5),” and “Kanji for Words for Beginner Japanese.” Problem is, I enabled way too many vectors across all of them, and now I’m drowning in reviews. I’m spending a ton of time on the same material from six different angles, and I’m not sure if that’s helping or just burning me out.

For those of you who’ve been using Renshuu for a while, what’s your setup? Which study vectors do you keep enabled for vocab and kanji schedules, and why? Did you start with a bunch and then pare it down, or did you stick to a core set from the beginning?

Also, for handwriting practice—do you keep that on all the time, or only turn it on when you’re specifically prepping for a test?

Any advice would be appreciated. Thanks in advance.

I'm on the free tier, so I don't have listening and writing. The only thing I have writing for are on conjugation schedules. It's pretty easy.

At my most minimum, I just do the Daily Challenges and that's it. The available schedules to review will stack anyway. I stopped worrying about that since I can also still do focused reviews, especially everything else not ready to quiz.

Since I have more than a dozen grammar and conjugation schedules, there's multiple small drills available at any time. It'll pile up one way or another.

Vocabulary and sentence schedules however, those tend to get larger being uncategorized for now. If not frequently up for quizzing, they'll still increase the longer you put it off, and they'll still do so whether you're at it or not.

You can limit how much you do at a time, or procrastinate as much as you want. They're likely gonna appear again anyway. There's no winning at it unless you're persistent and correct every time, which will decrease what you're reviewing over time to reduce the load. It'll turn up again unless you select the stuff you don't want to do or freeze/delete that schedule entirely.