Learn Cards Screen

This is the learning screen. You get here from the decks, tags and cards screen. On the left side of the titlebar is the time value for the current card. It is used to calculate the next expiration date for the next test. On the right side is the total time the user stayed on the learning screen for the present day.

Depending on the configured learning direction, the first side is showed. By flipping the card, the next side is shown. Up to 4 sides can be configured for a card.

Touch is supported. Tip on the screen to flip card. Swipe left for unknown or wrong. Swipe right for correct or known. Swipe upwards for skipping. On screen 5b touch is more usefull because on that screen, no buttons are visible.

The previos screen resembles more of a real flash card but doesn't show much other information. An alternate view is avaible which shows more information. You can switch between two screens while learning. Touch is working the same way as in previous screen.

The Skip button can be used to increase the scheduled time for an hour. If there are no remaining cards to learn, you'll see the time for the next earliest card.

Above the buttons are some status information.

Deck level
Last test result.
Remaining cards. This can change during the learning session because other cards can expire during that time.
Time passed since last encountered the current card.

The menu.
Previous given answer can be retaken with undo.

Learning Procedure

The learning procedure goes as follows:

The program will show you the first side of a card.
Think what you would answer.
Flip the card to see the correct answer. To flip the card, touch the card once. To cycle through the attributes, repeat touching.
Compare the result and choose either Wrong or Correct. Swipe to the left to mark the card as wrong and to the right as correct. To skip answering this card, swipe upwards.
Repeat until there are no remaining cards.

The program calculates the new time spacing interval for each card and schedules them for the next learning session. The calculation depends on your configuration you use, either adaptive or Leitner algorithm.

Adaptive Algorithm

The program will guess the time you can keep remembering an answer for each card. As that time is a moving target, it doesn't matter if you already know the contents before using this program or not.

Leitner Algorithm

With the Leitner algorithm, there is no guessing required. New cards will come to deck level 1 by a correct answer it will be moved a level up. By wrong answers cards will move directly back to level 1. Expiration depends on deck level which can be configured for each level and each deck indiviudally at the deck preferences screen

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