Flashcards

Cards you do not have to write

Making flashcards is the part that stops people making flashcards. Writing forty of them after a lecture is an hour of work that feels like revision and mostly is not, and it is the hour that gets skipped when the week gets busy.

Here you name a topic — a unit from a subject you are already tracking — and a deck comes back written for it. Ten cards by default, in the language of the exam rather than the language of the textbook.

Ten, deliberately

A deck of ten is a size you will actually finish in one sitting. Fifty cards for one topic looks more thorough and gets abandoned three cards in, and an abandoned deck tells you nothing about how well you know the topic.

If you want more, you generate a second deck for the same topic rather than one enormous one. Either way the cards stay grouped by subject and topic, so a deck always answers "how well do I know this unit" rather than "how well do I know this subject".

Reviewing is a swipe, not a form

Cards are marked known or difficult as you go, and the deck's mastery is simply the share you have marked known. Nothing more elaborate is recorded, because the number has to mean something to be worth showing: a deck at four out of ten is telling you to come back to it, and that is the whole job.

You can also bookmark a card, or push it to a later review without deciding anything about it now — which is what you want when a card is fine but you are not in a position to judge it today.

Where the decks come from

Decks are generated for the topics you have ticked off in a subject, so writing them happens as a by-product of the syllabus tracker rather than as a separate chore. Generate one on demand, or let decks for finished topics build up in the background while you work through something else.

Kept on the phone

Cards, mastery and bookmarks are stored on the device. No account, and no deck sitting on a server waiting to be lost in a migration.

Where it fits

Flashcards test whether you know something. Daily Revision decides when to come back to it, and the AI Quiz is for practising under exam conditions rather than in the deck.