There is a sound when you Get down to 0 reviews.

It's the thing about skritter always being about what you don't know, rather than what you do. I never get down to 0 as I'm set to automatically add, and I know exactly what you mean malaili!

Would it be possible to have a 'number of items studied today' figure? That way you could see how many you were doing each day? It would help me at least to feel better about the fact I AM making progress. I do believe I am, but can't really see it...

I know how you feel, too. One thing that I find helpful in the iOs app (not on the site) is the Progress button. If you select the Day chart, it will tell you how many minutes, how many items, and then break it down for you. Using this tool, I've learned that I average about 9 writing prompts per minute, and overall around 12 prompts per minute, working out to about 6 seconds per each writing prompt. This may be slow, or not, but it helps me plan a day's work, based on how many are due when I begin studying. I can get a general sense of how much Skritter time it will take to finish, and then I can see how many I've actually done.

BTW, the math isn't exactly accurate because this is based on my impressions and memory of rough calculations over several days and weeks.

I agree it would be nice to have a definitive response one when the queue has been cleared, but it's not my goal and not where I derive my sense of accomplishment from. It's not an indicator of when I can more comfortably add new words or start a new list section.

My general goal is 30 minutes a day, but if the queue is backed up I might keep adding 10 minute intervals until it looks more manageable.

I'm like Josh, and try to get in at least 30 min a day studying. Some days I'm just not on it, and end up getting things wrong and drilling them over and over.

Other days I'm on fire, remember everything, and end up adding a ton of new vocab. It just comes and goes and I live for the voice asking 一个小时，真的吗？

In then end if I do too much Skritter relative to live practice or real world reading, then it ends up feeling a bit empty. Sense of accomplishment is more around putting the vocab to use elsewhere.

The other day I was on the light rail in San Francisco and realized I could now read all the public service notices in Chinese, nagging people to always have a valid pass or transfer. Something like that is where my sense of accomplishment comes from!

That said it would be nice to randomly play a funny little congratulations when hitting 0 items due...

I shoot for time goals, too. The review bar is meant as a rough guide of how much is due--it's not important to hit exactly 0 (especially since, if you're automatically adding or run into review bar bugs, it won't hit 0).

Getting to zero doesn't interest me much at all. As it has already been noted: auto-adding doesn't let me reach zero anyway. It would be nice though to have a visual and audible notification when a new lesson gets opened. I've been using skritter for five days now and finished 6 lessons of the "basic kanji books" list. It would have been nice to get 6 "WELL DONE, FINISHED LESSON X" achievements displayed as a small reward for the time spent.

I think we ought to be able send an automatic thank-you song to Nick et al. for making it.

Getting to zero isn't important. I do really enjoy looking at the "Day" stats from the app though. Perhaps if that were available on the website so people could see how many reviews they've done each day it would be easier to get that "sense of accomplishment" :)

I don't think the issue is getting to Zero, it's knowing that you've cleared all the reviews that were scheduled by SRS up to that point.

Some of us are anal retentive and don't feel like we're done until we see zero things left :) It's for this reason that I put things on manual add for my lists. Seeing things left drives me crazy and leaves me with a nagging unaccomplished feeling after a Skritter session.

In terms of setting goals in general, I think a weekly/monthly/alltime leaderboard would be very helpful.