The Cards Section– lists all your flashcards.
In the CARDS section, you can:
- Click any flashcard in the list to open and edit it.
- Search and sort the list of flashcards, then select one, some, or all of the search results, and perform a bulk action, such as taking your selected flashcards into a practice session.
- Create a new flashcard. Flashcards created in the CARDS section are not linked to a library file, although you can link the flashcard to a URL on the web.
- Import flashcards, such as Anki flashcards, and convert them into SmarterHumans’ flashcards
What makes SmarterHumans flashcards unique?
The anatomy of a flashcard.
Let’s start with the basic question-and-answer flashcard
Often called a QA flashcard. It has the following components:
- Question and answer entry fields, both with extensive rich-text-editing capability
- A tags field. Use tags to organize all of your flashcards and content. Flashcards can have multiple tags.
- A source link that connects the precise location where you learned that bit of knowledge
- A checkbox to make the flashcard reversible
- The response log records every practice you’ve performed for that flashcard.
Redaction flashcards are a very popular alternative to QA flashcards.
They offer a quick and easy way to create fill-in-the-blank flashcards. The “blank” is any text or portion of an image you wish to redact and subsequently challenge yourself to recall what’s hidden. Redaction flashcards can be created from text, an image, or any combination of multiple texts and images. Popular use cases are the redaction of some words in a text, the labels in an image, and the cells in a table.
You can create multiple flashcards for a set of redactions, such as a flashcard for each label redacted in an anatomy image. Or, you can create a single progressive redaction flashcard, where you are sequentially challenged to recall what is behind each redaction, one by one before the flashcard is turned over. Most users prefer the progressive mode, so we set that as the default, unless you change it.
Searching and sorting the library list
When you click into the search box, the system tags will be immediately autosuggested.
You could for example, click “Untagged flashcards” to see the list of all flashcards that are untagged.
As you type into the search bar, any tags in your account that match will be autosuggested. TO search for flashcards that possess a tag, click it to put it into the search box.
If you search based on the text you’ve typed in the search box, you will filter your flashcards list for those flashcard where the exact text is present in the Q or A field.
You can create a search based on one text string and one or more tags.
Note that by default , all searches are AND type searches. This means that only those flashcards that possess all the elements of the search query will be returned. For example, if you search for flashcards that possess the three tags “Biology”, “Botany”, “Ferns”, and the text string “photosyn”, only those flashcards (if any) that possess all three tags and the string, will return. If you click the word AND in the top of the drop (see image above), you can switch to an OR search. In OR searches, flashcards that possess any element of the search query will be returned.
You can sort your search results
Sorting for Due for practice (soonest first) is handy if you want to practice upcoming flashcards due for spaced-repetition practice.
Sorting for Average star rating (lowest to highest) and selecting a bunch of those at the top of the list is a handy way to do some extra practice of the flashcards you’ve been struggling the most,
Select flashcards in the list to perform bulk Actions
- Decide if you want to perform the action on all or just a subset of your flashcards. For example, search for all flashcards that possess the biology tag. You can reorder the search results using the sorting control under the search bar.
- Our system downloads fifty flashcards at a time that match the search. To download more, scroll the list and continue scrolling as additional batches of fifty are added to the list.
- Select one, some, or select all in the list. After you have made a selection, the bulk actions tools will appear under the search box. Click the one that you wish to apply. The most common bulk action is to take the selected flashcards into an ad hoc practice session.
When you select all or any subset of the flashcards list, the sorting tool under the search bar enables several bulk actions that you can apply.
The tags panel provides a lot of handy shortcuts.
On this page
- The Cards Section– lists all your flashcards.
- What makes SmarterHumans flashcards unique?
- The anatomy of a flashcard.
- Let’s start with the basic question-and-answer flashcard
- Redaction flashcards are a very popular alternative to QA flashcards.
- Searching and sorting the library list
- Select flashcards in the list to perform bulk Actions
- The tags panel provides a lot of handy shortcuts.
- Workflows in the Cards Section
At the top of the tags panel you can search for a tag and sort the list. Normally you create new tags in the tags filed of a flashcard or library item. But, you can create a new tag in tha tags panel. You can also create a tag group. If you select to create a tag group, a modal will open.
Give the tag group a name and add some of your tags to the group. This will enable you to search for flashcards that belong to the group (because they possess at least one of the tags), and perform bulk actions on the member flashcards.
Inside the solid red rectangle are the system tags. Clicking one of these will throw that tag into the search box and filter the flashcards list for matches.
Snoozed flashcards can then be searched, sorted, selected, and un-snoozed.
Flagged flashcards are cards that you marked during practice that you want to perform an action, such as editing, at a later time.
Cloned, never practiced flashcards are discuss on the GROUPS page.
Trash contained deleted flashcards.
The dotted rectangle denotes the tags that you have created. The small font number along the right are the number of flashcards that possess that tag. For instance, the Arabic tag is used on 1 flashcard.
If you click a tag, it will be thrown into the flashcards list search box and the flashcards list will be filtered for the matches.
When you hover over a tag, more info and possible actions appear. When you look the hovered German tag, starting from the right side, you can see that 79 flashcards have this tag. Some tags in the list don’t have a number because they are not curently applied to any flashcards. They might be applied to library files but that number only appears when you look at the tags panel in the LIBRARY section of the app.
if you click the rocket icon, you will immediately take the 79 flashcards into a practice session.
The average star rating, for all your practices of these 79 is 5.0.
Click the pencil icon to edit the name of the tag. You can consolidate two tags by editing one of them to be identical to the other. It’s a great metod of fixing typos.
Click the X to delete that tag. It will delete the tag from everywhere you use it but will not delete any flashcards or files.
Workflows in the Cards Section
CARDS