How Tomyo works

A step-by-step look at how learning is put together: why today’s session shows these particular words, how vocabulary review differs from writing and phrases, what the progress percentages mean, and what you control yourself.

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These four cover most of the questions. The rest are in the contents on the left.

How learning worksThe big picture: how a daily session is built from your dictionary, what Tomyo decides and what stays with you, and how vocabulary review differs from writing and phrases.
Word stagesHow the five stages every word moves through work, where the line between "Learning" and "Know" runs, why a single mistake sends a word back to the start, and why a word you already know still comes back for review.
How words are selectedWhy the composition of a session changes from day to day, why new words stop appearing when reviews pile up, and why a session sometimes runs longer than usual.
HandwritingWhy not every character in your dictionary is available for writing, how the "read it first, then write it" rule works, why writing has its own schedule, and what the tracing and from-memory stages mean.