Lesson planner...
This menu item allows you to select which lessons are included in flashcard exercises.
When you select this menu item, the Lesson planner dialog will be displayed (shown in Figure 1 below). You will see lessons broken down by year and lesson numbers, the number of words in each lesson, an indication of the types of words in each lesson, and the name of the dictionary in which the lesson resides.
Figure 1. The Lesson planner dialog
The Lesson planner is the key to controlling which lessons are included in exercises, and the lesson planner uses the dictionaries listed in the Flashcard dictionary list to do its work (you can view this list by selecting Flashcard dictionary list... from the Preferences submenu of the Text menu). Thus, if you change the dictionaries in the Flashcard dictionary list, you will also change the lessons shown in the Lesson planner.
In the default setup (ie. JWM's settings when it is shipped to customers), there are two lessons set to Use - the ticks in the Use box of the Lesson planner indicate this (Note: The default setup is only for illustrative purposes, since all users have different study needs. Please see the full list of dictionaries shipped with JWM to see which ones may suit your needs). To look at the list of words included in any lesson, click the multi-colored icon and the words will be shown in the Output list. For example, the three words in the first lesson are shown in Figure 2.
Figure 2. The Output list showing the three words in the first lesson
To add more words to exercises, simply open the Lesson planner and tick the Use box of another lesson. When you next do exercises, this lesson will also be included. The idea is that you progressively add more lessons over the course of each study week, progressively building your Japanese vocabulary and Kanji skills. Of course, you can also add your own words and lessons by editing (or creating) dictionaries and adding them to the Flashcard dictionary list.