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 URL of a web page 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 name of the file before you click Save.


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

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

Viewing library files

To open a file in the list simply 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 any 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 snapshot.
8. The Pin tool enables you to drop a pin at an area of interest. You can create a note or flashcard, deep-linked to the pin.
9. The AI tool will produce a set of suggested flashcards that are 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 into your account.
10. There are additional tools for you to explore.

If the library item is a video, it will open in our video viewer.

Here, you’ll be able to create flashcards and notes, 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.

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 to the list.

3. 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 library list list, the sorting tool under the search bar enables several bulk actions that you can apply.

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 a one or more of your groups where sharing by members is permitted by the owner

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

Delete– If you delete files, they will be immediately removed from your account forever. Be sure to keep your won 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. 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.

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, will will se a clickable rocket icon that will take your into practice for all of the flashcards linked to anthe files and videos that possess that tag.

Some tags in the list don’t have a number because they are not currently applied to any library items. They might be applied to flashcards files 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 of them 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
• If the library item is a video, it will open in our video viewer.
• Searching and sorting the library list is the same as the CARDS section minor exceptions
• Select library items in the list to perform bulk Actions
• Bulk actions options
• The tags panel provides a lot of handy shortcuts.
• Workflows in the LIBRARY section
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