Studying Cards

Starting a Study Session

Study any Card List by navigating to any Card List and tapping on the Study button in the toolbar. Studying this way allows you to focus on a specific topic.

To study all available cards, tap on the Study button in the Library (found in the sidebar on Mac), or in the Today section.

Clicking on the Study button in the sidebar starts a Study Session for all of the available cards
If there are no cards available to study, the Study button appears slashed. Tapping or clicking on it displays the time when the current folder (or the entire library, if at the top level) will have cards ready to study again.

Studying Cards

A Study Session happens in a dedicated view where you study cards one by one.

When you first start a Study Session, you are presented with the question of the first card.

Studying a card consists of the following steps:

  1. Read the question
  2. Try to recall the answer
  3. Reveal the answer by tapping on the screen (or scrolling to reveal the answer if the question is very long).
  4. Score your recall attempt using the Score Control that appears. These are the scores, with some general guidelines of what they mean:
  • Don’t Know - You can't recall it, and you can barely recognize it.
  • Hard - You can't recall it, but you can vaguely recognize it (e.g. if somebody where to mention it, you know what they are talking about).
  • Good - You can recall it, but it either takes a while or not accurately (you might mispronounce it or use a close but not the same concept).
  • Easy - You can recall it quickly and accurately.
  1. Continue to the next card until the last one is reached.

You can end the Study Session at any time - it'll resume next time where you left off (with any additional cards that became available since you last studied).

The Score Control can be used in multiple ways:

  1. Tap on the score you want (leftmost is Easy by default, rightmost is Don't Know).
  2. Swipe on the question/answer area to the left until the Score Control highlights the score you want, then release.
  3. Swipe on the Score Control until it points to the score you want, then release.
  4. Use Keyboard Shortcuts (1 = Don't Know, 2 = Hard, 3 = Good, 4 = Easy)
Scoring a card in the Study View using gestures, dragging and taps.

At the end of a Study Session, you are presented with the time of the next session for the current folder. You'll also see other folders that still have cards available to study. If you are studying all cards, you are presented with the next date to study any card instead.

Depending on how you scored cards, some of them might show up earlier than others. You'll be notified when the next study sessions become available if you have notifications enabled (You can enable them at any time in Settings -> Notifications).

The end of a Study Session for Dog Breeds. There are still cards available in other folders.

How Scoring Affects Study Sessions

Your score changes how soon the card returns in future study sessions.

  • Easy: promotes to a longer interval
  • Good: Keeps it in the same interval
  • Hard: Keeps it in the same interval, but may demote it to a shorter interval if possible
  • Don’t Know: Demotes to a shorter interval, if possible

Intervals progress over time. The default interavals are: 1 hour → 4 hours → 1 day → 3 days, 1 week, 2 weeks.

When the card is scored Easy on the final interval, it's considered Finished and won't appear in future study sessions anymore.

In special circumstances (such as a close deadline) the interval may turn into 30 minutes. You can also increase the last interval to 1 month.

If no cards are due now, check the Today section in the Library or open the Calendar to see when the next reviews will appear.

Select multiple cards to Move, Delete, Reset, or Score.

On Mac, you can also use the menu bar for Edit and File actions when multiple cards are selected.

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