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Reviewing & Cramming

A key part of spaced repetition learning is being shown the front of cards to test whether or not you recall the information on the back. There are two similar functions that perform this – reviewing & cramming.

Reviewing

For the selected deck, you are only shown
new cards (i.e. ones that have never been reviewed before) as well as
due cards (those that the algorithm has decided it's time to review)

Cramming

You are shown every single card in the selected deck/note, even those that have recently been reviewed.

Common Features of Reviewing & Cramming

Deck Selection

Although you may want to review or cram all cards across all decks, you often may wish to do so on only a subset of decks.

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All subdecks included

For example, clicking on the course deck will also include all cards within the aws and developer-associate decks.

Operation

review-operation

!!! note "" # | Name | Description - | - | - 1 | Edit | Edit the flashcard text 2 | Reset | Reset the review schedule information - the review interval is set to 1 day, and the ease is set to the default value 3 | Info | Shows the scheduling information for the card 4 | Skip | Skip the current card without reviewing

Context

If the parent note has heading(s), the flashcard will have a title containing the context.

Taking the following note:

#flashcards

# Trivia

## Capitals

### Africa

Kenya::Nairobi

### North America

Canada::Ottawa

Context displayed

reviewing-context

Note

Context is only shown if enabled in UI Preferences

Keyboard shortcuts

To review faster, use the following keyboard shortcuts:

  • Space/Enter => Show answer
  • 0 => Reset card's progress (Sorta like Again in Anki)
  • 1 => Review as Hard
  • 2 => Review as Good
  • 3 => Review as Easy

Reviewing

Once done creating cards, click on the flashcards button on the left ribbon to start reviewing the flashcards. After a card is reviewed, a HTML comment is added containing the next review day, the interval, and the card's ease.

<!--SR:!2021-08-20,13,290-->

Wrapping in a HTML comment makes the scheduling information not visible in the notes preview. For single-line cards, you can choose whether you want the HTML comment on the same line or on a separate line in the settings. Putting them on the same line prevents breaking of list structures in the preview or after auto-formatting.

Note that you can skip a card by simply pressing S (case doesn't matter).

Tip

If you're experiencing issues with the size of the modal on mobile devices, go to settings and set the Flashcard Height Percentage and Flashcard Width Percentage to 100% to maximize it.

Cramming

You are shown every single card, even those that have recently been reviewed. By using the appropriate command have the choice of cramming cards:

Cards Command
Within a single note Spaced Repetition: Cram flashcards in this note
Within a deck (including all subdecks) Spaced Repetition: Select a deck to cram note