Creating decks and cards

Creating a deck

From Create, pick the new deck option, give it a name and, if you want, a description. The deck shows up in Decks, ready for you to add content to it.

It's worth splitting by topic: one deck per subject, or per unit, makes reviewing tidier.

In the same form you can give it a color. It's optional and you can change it later whenever you want.

Decks inside decks

A deck can contain subdecks. For example, an Anatomy deck with Bones, Muscles, and Nerves subdecks. When you study Anatomy, the cards from all three come in.

When you create a deck, Where does this deck go? is that decision: at the top level leaves it next to the rest, and inside another deck opens a search to pick which one will contain it. If you put it inside another one, it inherits its visibility, and that is why that control stays locked.

Visibility

Each deck has a visibility that defines who can see it. Subdecks inherit the visibility of the deck that holds them.

Creating a card

In Create, pick the deck the card goes into and the card type. Fill in the content and save. The card joins the deck and, from then on, the review algorithm schedules it like all the rest.

You can mix types within a single deck. Pick the format based on what you're studying, not the other way around.

Text formatting

The card text editor has buttons for bold, italic, and underline. The Text style menu switches between normal text and Heading 1, 2, or 3.

You also get Text color (nine colors), Add image, and Math formula. Front/Back additionally shows Text border (black or white): there the text can sit on top of the image, and the border is what keeps it readable.

The Insert button adds blocks: lists (bulleted or numbered), inline code, code block, quote, and divider (a line to separate sections).

Everything you format here looks the same when you study the card.

Adding audio

Audio attaches to a block of text, from the microphone button on its toolbar, next to the image one. There you get Record, which uses your device's microphone, and Choose file, to upload one you already have. Recording stops on its own at 3 minutes.

On Front/Back there is one per side: you can hear a word and recall what it means, or read it and reveal how it sounds. A side with audio and no text is valid. The additional text carries its own too, on all six types, and plays when you reveal the answer.

While studying, the card's audio plays on its own when the card appears, and the back's when you reveal it. You can pause it, scrub, change the volume and the speed, or press P. If you'd rather it didn't start on its own, turn it off in Settings › Study preferences.

Card types

Medkit has six card types. To see how to build each one step by step, see Card types.

Keyboard shortcuts

On a computer you can create and edit faster with the keyboard. Almost all of them work while you type in a card's editor.

Math formulas are inserted with the editor's Σ button (no shortcut). See the full guide in Math formulas.

These others work with the pointer on the image, in the card types that use one.

Tag numbers add up: for tag 12, press 1 and then 2. The hand is for moving around a zoomed image without drawing on it.

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