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Prepare for exams with flashcards

A tall stack of overdue flashcard reviews shrinking day by day into a manageable daily queue

7 min read

How to Recover From a Flashcard Backlog

How to recover from a flashcard backlog without cramming or starting over: pause new cards, triage the queue, and clear it in a structured way.

2 guides published

Write effective flashcards

An anatomy diagram with one labeled part hidden behind a box, ready to be revealed as a flashcard answer

7 min read

Image Occlusion Flashcards: How to Make Them Well

How to make image occlusion flashcards that actually test recall: one label per hide, the right images, and mistakes that make occlusion cards weak.
A cluttered flashcard with three facts being rewritten into three separate, simple flashcards

10 min read

How to Write Flashcards You Can Actually Remember

How to write good flashcards: the one-fact-per-card rule, why vague questions create false confidence, and how to write cloze cards that force real recall.

5 guides published

Understand and use spaced repetition

A balance compares a small pile of review cards with a larger one, illustrating the trade-off between review workload and recall.

7 min read

What Desired Retention Should You Choose in FSRS?

How to choose a desired retention setting in FSRS: the trade-off between review count and forgetting, and how to pick a number for your situation.
A student closing a textbook to try recalling an answer from memory instead of re-reading the page

8 min read

Active Recall vs. Re-Reading: Why One Actually Works

Active recall vs re-reading: why testing yourself builds stronger memory than re-reading notes, and why re-reading feels productive even when it isn't.
A daily review queue growing taller each week as new flashcards are added faster than they are reviewed

8 min read

How Many New Flashcards Should You Add Per Day?

How many new flashcards to add per day, why the number compounds into your review load, and how to set a limit you can actually keep.
A flashcard between two gauges representing memory stability and card difficulty, with its next review shown on a calendar.

9 min read

FSRS Explained Without the Maths

FSRS explained in plain language: what stability and difficulty mean, how a review changes them, and why it schedules cards better than SM-2.
A review curve showing memory strength rising after each spaced repetition review instead of decaying to zero

14 min read

Spaced Repetition, Explained: The Method Behind Long-Term Memory

How spaced repetition works, why the forgetting curve makes cramming fail, and how algorithms from SM-2 to FSRS decide when you review each card.

7 guides published

Move your decks

A flashcard with a broken image icon next to the same card showing the image loading correctly after a fix

9 min read

Fixing Media, MathJax, and Templates After an Import

A troubleshooting order for missing images, broken MathJax formulas, and broken templates after importing a flashcard deck.
A Quizlet study set's text being copied out into a plain CSV file of front and back fields

8 min read

How to Export Quizlet Sets and Move Them to Another App

How to export Quizlet sets as text, what survives the move, and how to turn that export into cards you can import somewhere else.
Flashcard fields crossing a migration line with scheduling, media and review history separated

13 min read

What Survives When You Migrate Flashcards?

What survives an Anki migration? This field-by-field guide covers cards, media, scheduling, FSRS memory, revlog, templates and exit formats.
Two independent flashcard backup copies beside a restored test card with media and scheduling checks

10 min read

How to Back Up Your Flashcards Before Switching

Back up flashcards before switching apps: export, restore a five-minute test, check media and scheduling, keep independent copies, and plan a rollback.
A small archive holding one flashcard deck beside a larger archive holding several decks, media and scheduling data.

10 min read

APKG vs COLPKG: Which Export Do You Need?

APKG vs COLPKG explained: choose the right export scope, protect scheduling and media, test a copy, and keep an open return path before switching.
An .apkg file next to the scheduling data it carries: due date, interval and review history

8 min read

Does Importing an .apkg Keep Your Scheduling?

Yes — an .apkg carries due dates, intervals, reps, lapses, FSRS memory and the full review history, if the export included scheduling. Here is how to check.
Flashcard collection moving between export formats with progress and media intact

17 min read

Move Flashcards to Another App Without Starting Over

Move flashcards to another app without starting over: choose the right export, protect your progress, test media, and verify the import before switching.