Hi, I'm Alivia and today I'm going to show you how to customize WaniKani to do a lot
of really cool things.
You can make it so that it shows you the stroke order of the kanji that you're learning so
you know how to write them.
You can make it so you can mark your answer as correct if you accidentally misspelled
something.
Or you can even make WaniKani work like Anki, so you don't have to type out the answer every
time.
Instead, you can just make it show you the answer and then you can tell WaniKani if you
got it right or wrong.
The way you get these customizations is by downloading these things called user scripts,
which are basically these little chunks of code that other people who use WaniKani wrote
that you can download for free.
I highly recommend using user scripts for WaniKani and finding the ones that work for
you.
I personally have over a dozen of them installed and they're super great.
And if you know how to code, WaniKani has an API so that you can write your own user
scripts.
But don't worry if you aren't good with computers, there are so many that you can choose from.
So let's jump in and I'll show you how to get them installed!
So before you can download any user scripts, you're going to have to download a user script
manager.
So this is just a browser extension that you're going to download and it will let you run
your user scripts and make modifications to the website that you are on.
So in this case we want to modify WaniKani.
I recommend that you use TamperMonkey just because it's what I use, it's pretty straightforward
to get started with, it's compatible with a lot of different web browsers - but GreaseMonkey
is another really popular one.
So if you're on Chrome like me, you're gonna want to go to the Chrome Web Store.
So you're just gonna search up TamperMonkey and download that.
There should be a button up here that will say "add to Chrome" and you're going to click
on that, press accept, and then it should bring you to a page confirming that you downloaded
everything.
Now once you have it downloaded, just to double-check make sure that you look up in this top corner
and make sure that the little logo is there and that it's black and not greyed out.
If it's greyed out that means that you did install it but it's not turned on right now.
So if it's inactive you can just click on it and it will give you an option to turn
it on.
If you're on a different web browser than Google Chrome, just look up TamperMonkey and
the web browser that you're using and it should pop up with a link where you can download
it.
So next we're gonna wanna go to the WaniKani community forums and you're gonna wanna go
to the WaniKani tab, and you're gonna click on "API and Third-Party Apps".
Once you're here you're gonna click on the very first link: "The New and Improved List
of API and Third-Party Apps".
And then you wanna scroll to the very top, so you can click on here.
So once you're here you're gonna see this huge list of user scripts that you can install
and use with WaniKani.
And if you go to the top there is a table of contents so that you can find what you're
looking for.
If you want something to customize your dashboard, to use in your lessons and reviews, and you
can download as many as you want, there's no limit.
But if you download 2 that are very similar, they might interfere with each other.
So that's just something to be aware of if you have too many installed, they might interfere
with each other and cause one of them not to work.
But I'll talk about how you can avoid that later in the video.
But right now I'm going to walk you through how to install an override button.
So what it's going to do is it's going to let you mark your answer as correct if you
put in a typo, or if you almost had the right wording but WaniKani rejected it.
So this is going to let you bypass that and say "actually WaniKani this was correct.
I know I made a typo but I had the right idea and I want you to pass this."
So the first thing we're gonna wanna do is to download the WaniKani Open Framework.
So it is a user script but you're not really gonna be seeing what it does.
It kinda works in the background.
And the reason we are downloading this is because a lot of user scripts are built on
top of that Open Framework.
So you want to make sure that you have it installed so you can ensure that any future
user scripts that you download are going to work with WaniKani.
So the Open Framework is gonna be the first thing on this list, right here.
We're gonna click on it.
And you can read this if you want, but as you can see it's asking you to put in TamperMonkey.
And we're just going to click on this link.
So this is gonna bring up a website called Greasy Fork and this is just where a lot of
user scripts are posted and this is where we're gonna download it from.
So all you have to do is press this install button right here- I already have it installed
so it should look a little different for you.
Now because a lot of user scripts run off of this Open Framework we want to make sure
that it's the first one that's run in your user script manager.
So if this is your very first user script you don't have to worry about this because
it should automatically be the very first user script in your list.
But if you have other user scrips installed what you going to want to do is click on the
TamperMonkey icon and you're going to press dashboard.
So if you have multiple user scripts installed, like I do, what you wanna do is to click on
this button here that is going to sort smallest to biggest and if WaniKani Open Framework
isn't your first one, you're just going to drag it up into the first spot.
So let's say that I downloaded it and it was in the fifth spot, I'm just going to drag
it up to the very top so that it is now #1.
Another important thing is to make sure that the Open Framework is turned on and green.
You do not want it grey you want to make sure that it's turned on.
So now we're going to go back to WaniKani- on the table of contents click Reviews and
we want to download Doble-Check.
I really like this one because it really blends in with WaniKani.
You can see here that it adds this button here and it looks like it's exactly like all
the other buttons on WaniKani.
It also has this optional feature that you can enable so if you get an answer correct
it's gonna automatically move to the next word.
So it will save you on pressing the enter button as much.
And like I said earlier it will let uu override when you get something wrong.
Now you can see at the very top here, this user script requires the Open Framework, so
that's why we already installed it.
But we are going to click on download and install Double-Check.
And this will be exactly the same as what we did before.
There's gonna be an install button right here and you're gonna click on that, and then you're
good to go.
Now when we go into the reviews panel, we can now see that there are some new buttons
here.
So this is Double-Check right here. and then up in the corner, we have this lightning bolt.
So if you click on the lightning bolt that's going to enable lighting mode.
So you can see here: Auto-advance after answering correctly.
So you're not going to have to [ress enter every time you get an answer correct so that
will save you a little bit of time.
So if I try and type in something that is incorrect here.
I'm going to be shown that I got wrong.
So if I get something wrong I can still click on the eye to see what the correct answer
was. and if I thought that I was close enough I can click on that thumbs up and then it's
going to be marked as right.
So that was just an example of downloading one user script, but you can see here that
there are so many great ones that you can choose from so definitely take a look and
see if there is anything that looks interesting to you.
I'll make a video in the future about the user script s that I'm using and why I rarely
like them so make sure you're subscribed and hit the notification bell so that you don't
miss that but ill give you a little sneak peek at the ones that I currently have installed.
And you'll notice that I actually have some of them turned off including their one we
just downloaded.
So like I was talking about earlier if you have a lot of user scripts installed some
of them might interfere with each other.
So I had installed both WaniKani override and WaniKani double-check because I wanted
to see which one I preferred, they do almost the same thing.
So if you wanna do your own little comparison you can just make sure that only one of them
is turned on at a time because since they do almost the same thing they will interfere
with each other.
But you will notice that I actually have both of them off and that's because I'm using WaniKani
Anki mode.
So what that does is it makes it so that I don't have to type out my answers.
It will just display me the correct answer and then I have to tell WaniKani whether or
not I knew it.
I like it because it makes my reviews a lot faster, and because a lot of the reviews I
have are very old words and they're about to be burned, so I know them very well.
But I wouldn't really recommend using Anki mode if you're newer to WaniKani.
Just because I think needing to type it out does really help with your memory and it's
really hard to keep yourself accountable.
you might be passing things that you don't quite know yet so that can be harming your
learning but if you've been on WaniKani for a while and your reviews are taking a really
long time, Anki mode is a really great option.
But what I had to is I had to make sure that both my Doculbe-Check and my Override user
scripts were turned off because when I had them turned on my Anki mode was not working.
And this doesn't affect me too much because the Anki mode makes it so that I don't have
to type at all, so there's really no reason for me to have the override button in there
anyways.
So if you're having a similar issue and you feel like one of your user scripts isn't working
properly, try turning off andy similar ones and see if that helps and if you're still
having issues go to the WaniKani forum for that user script and see if anyone can answer
your question there.
You can check out all my other WaniKani related videos in the playlist onscreen.
If there's anything you'd like me to talk about in a future video make sure you let
me know down in the comments.
And if you found this video useful make sure you give it a thumbs up and that's all I have
for today and I'll see you soon!