In general, I study writing, definitions,and tones, but sometimes I only want to study the tones and definitions of certain items, because I like to concentrate most of my writing-studying time on tough characters, rather than words that are made up of 2-4 easy characters.


Is there a way to make it so that only certain study parts get added to the review queue and not others ? For example, is there a way that I can have 坐月子　show up in my review queue when I'm studying definitions and tones, but not when I'm studying writing ?

Here is why :

"坐月子" is made of 3 simple characters, all of which I learned how to write years ago, so I don't want to waste any time writing out 坐月子. I do , however, want to have it show up when I'm reviewing definitions and tones, because sometimes I'm not sure if 子　is neutral tone or 3rd tone, and because the definition is something I might forget because Westerners don't 坐月子．　

So even though I definitely need to have 坐月子 show up in my review queue to keep it fresh in my mind, I definitely don't need to spend time writing it , because I already know how to do that and any time I spend writing it is wasted.

There are actually lots of words like this. Off the top of my head:
房产，学位，茶水，　带孩子　are all other examples where the individual characters are all very basic, but when these characters combine to make multi-character words, then that's not so easy, and reviewing is thus needed.

I'm not sure if this will move you toward where you want to go, and I am not sure how much it has helped me, but I think it has helped some to color code the characters by tone. You might try recalling (or even saying aloud) the character with its correct pronunciation before putting pen to paper (stylus to tablet?) and getting immediate visual feedback on whether you guessed right.

When the writing prompts pop up, you could click on the magnifying glass and remove the writing parts of these words from your studies manually. This way they only have to pop up once.

Thanks a lot !!!

Also, make sure you tell Skritter that the prompt was too easy before you remove the word writing from your studies - to make your stats look better! :)
(Which is not cheating because you actually know how to write the word)