Remove from Deck (and when to use it)
We’ve tried hard to make sure your time spent learning is used as efficiently as possible. For that reason we provide a Remove from Deck button for each item which will make that word disappear into a black hole and never be seen by you again. If you do this to a kanji, it will count it as learned and unlock any associated vocabulary. These are the times when you'll want to use that button:
- Use it when you already know a specific kanji or word and are certain you won’t forget it. If you know you’ll never forget the word 母 and you’ll never forget the reading, then make it disappear. Some students will have learned a significant amount of kanji and vocab before ever coming to this site, so skip all the ones you don’t want to waste time reviewing later, until you get to the ones you care about, that are new to you.
- You don’t want to learn the word. In the beginning (N5) pretty much every word you learn will be useful and should be learned, but in the later stages you may come across words that you don’t ever see yourself using and don’t want to waste time learning. The philosophy of this site is “choose your own adventure”, so destroy any vocab that you don’t think is necessary for you to learn.
Those are the main two reasons you’ll want to use that button. A good rule of thumb is: if you think that if you never saw that word again for the next 3 months that you would still know what it means and how to read it, then you should be safe deleting it. If you accidentally delete a word you want to keep, there’s an undo button that pops up for 5 seconds that will bring it back. Beyond that, if you search for the word using our search bar, you can “learn” it from there, which will add it back to your review queue. So if you destroy one and later regret it you can still bring it back.