SmarterHumans flashcards

Their unique superpower is that they can be deep-linked to the exact location in the content where you learned that bit of knowledge. When you practice memory retrieval, you are always a click away from refreshing your memory at the source. This enables you to return to the precise words in a file, webpage, or Kindle book, the precise time code in a video, or the region of interest where you snipped a screenshot in any file or web page. Getting back to the source is the most powerful way to refresh your memory when you forget something you learned and intended to remember.

Flashcards can be created in three places:

1. Library– flashcards you create here are automatically deep-linked to specific text, snipped regions of interest, or time codes in the files and videos you have added to the library.
2. Cards section- flashcards you create here can optionally be linked to a web page URL on the Internet by pasting the URL into the source field.
3. Webpages and online videos– use the SmarterHumans webclipper browser extension to create flashcards deep-linked to text or snapshotted regions of interest using our snip tool. Use the webclipper to create deep-linked flashcards tied to the time code of videos on YouTube, Coursera, and Udemy.

Why have a Library?

You can upload or add files and videos you intend to study in the library. As you consume this content, you can pause to create flashcards linked to anything you want to remember. This process can be as personalized as you need, allowing you to manually create flashcards or use AI to generate suggested flashcards.

You can integrate learning content from the web and Kindle using the SmarterHumans webclipper browser extension into the SmarterHumans workflow.

How to add content to the library

1. Click Import materials

2. Upload files from your device: Word, PowerPoint, PDF, .txt, .png, and .jpg

3. Optionally, add tags or edit the file name before you click Save.


You can also add web pages and videos from YouTube and Vimeo to your library.

Paste the URL of the webpages, and we’ll add a PDF copy of the page to your library. Enter the share URL of videos from YouTube and Vimeo.

Viewing library files

The File Viewer

AI-generated flashcards

To open a file in the list, click on it. If it is any file format except a video, It will open in our web viewer on the right side of the page on computers.

Here are brief explanations of the viewer details numbered in the image.

1. The title of the opened file
2. If you have created flashcards linked to text or regions of interest in the file, click this button to take them into a practice session.
3. The gear Icon opens the meta for the file, where you can see the metadata and perform several actions on the file.
4. Click to expand the file to full-page view.
5. This dropdown offers additional annotation tools for you to mark up the file
6. Use the Text tool to select text in your file to create a deep-linked flashcard or note. When you practice the flashcard or read the note in our NOTES section of the app, you can always click the source link, and the file will open at the location of the linked text.
7. The Snip tool enables you to drag and create a screenshot of a region of interest in the file. The screenshot will be placed in the flashcard or note you wish to create. When you practice the flashcard or read the note in our NOTES section of the app, you can always click the source link, and the file will open at the location of the snapshot.
8. The Pin tool lets you drop a pin at an area of interest. You can create a note or flashcard that is deep-linked to the pin.
9. The AI tool will produce a set of suggested flashcards deep-linked to the most important points on the current page. You can select, optionally edit and tag any of them you want to add to your account.
10. There are additional tools for you to explore.

The library item will open in our video viewer if it is a video item.

Here, you’ll be able to create flashcards and notes that are deep-linked to the time code in the video. We support adding YouTube and Vimeo videos to the library. When you add videos from YouTube, we automatically place the last 15 seconds of the transcript into the flashcard or note as a starting point for your editing.

Searching and sorting the library list is the same as the CARDS section, with minor exceptions.

Searching and sorting

When you click the search box, the system tags will automatically be autosuggested.

For example, you could click “Untagged flashcards” to see the list of all untagged flashcards.

As you type into the search bar, any tags in your account that match will be autosuggested. To search for flashcards with a tag, click it and put it in 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 flashcards that possess all the search query elements 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 possessing 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 ratings (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 with the most.

Minor differences in searching /sorting in the LIBRARY compared with the CARDS section

The system tags in the library are Untagged items (instead of Untagged flashcards)and Processed items. Processed items are s tool for keeping your library list “clean,” much like you may want to keep your email inbox clean. After you finish reading a file or watching a video and creating all of the linked flashcards and notes, mark the file/video processed. It will be removed from the main library list. You can always see it by clicking the autosuggested Processed items system tag when you click into the search box. From there, you can select any file and move it out oof the processed list and back into the main library list if you desire.

Select library items in the list to perform bulk Actions

1. Decide if you want to perform the action on all or just a subset of your library files and videos. For example, search for all items that possess the biology tag. You can reorder the search results using the sorting control under the search bar.
2. Our system downloads fifty library items at a time that match the search. To download more, scroll the list and continue scrolling as additional batches of fifty are added.

3. Select one, some, or select all in the list. After you have made a selection, the bulk action 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 library list list, the sorting tool under the search bar enables you to apply several bulk actions.

Bulk actions options

Practice– takes the selected flashcards, linked to the selected files and videos, right into practice.

Tags– opens a panel to enable you see existing tags in the selection set, remove, and add more.

Share– Share the selected files and video to one or more of your groups where the owner permits sharing by members.

Marked as processed– move library items out of the main list and into the Processed list to keep the main list “clean” and reflect the files you still need to read or watch, as well as create flashcards and notes.

Delete– If you delete files, they will be immediately removed from your account forever. Be sure to keep your own backup copy of library files on your device or elsewhere.

The tags panel provides a lot of handy shortcuts.

At the top of the tags panel, you can search for a tag and sort the list. Usually, you create new tags in the tags field of a flashcard or library item. But you can create a new tag in the 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.

Untagged items: all files and videos that have zero tags

Processed items, all files, and videos that you have marked as processed. YOu can view this list and delete items or move them back to the main library list

The dotted rectangle denotes the tags that you have created. The small font number along the right are the number of files and videos that possess that tag. For instance, the Physiology tag is used on one library item.

If you click a tag, it will be thrown into the flashcards list search box and the library list will be filtered for the matches.

When you hover over a tag, you will see a clickable rocket icon that will take you into practice for all of the flashcards linked to the files and videos that possess that tag.

Some tags in the list don’t have a number because they are not currently applied to library items. They might be applied to flashcards but that number only appears when you look at the tags panel in the CARDS section of the app.

Click the pencil icon to edit the name of the tag. You can consolidate two tags by editing one to be identical to the other. It’s a great method 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 LIBRARY section

• SmarterHumans flashcards
• Why have a Library?
• How to add content to the library
• Viewing library files
• The File Viewer
• AI-generated flashcards
• The library item will open in our video viewer if it is a video item.
• Searching and sorting the library list is the same as the CARDS section, with minor exceptions.
• Searching and sorting
• Minor differences in searching /sorting in the LIBRARY compared with the CARDS section
• Bulk actions options
• The tags panel provides a lot of handy shortcuts.
• Workflows in the LIBRARY section
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