Organizing your decks and cards

Decks and View cards

Decks, in the top bar, is your library: the list of all your decks and subdecks. From there you study them, reorganize them, and get into the trash. You only see your own, because other people's public decks are discovered through their profile and don't show up mixed in with yours.

To see a deck's cards, tap it. It's also in its three-dot menu, as View cards. That screen lists that deck's cards: there you edit them, move them, add new ones, or start a study session.

Clicking a card opens it full size. From there you move to the previous or next one with the arrow keys or by swiping, and a counter tells you which card you're on (for example, 5 / 25).

That same three-dot menu has Details, with the deck's language and categories, what it holds (cards, subdecks, and parts), and its statistics: retention, pending cards, and next review. What each number means is in Dashboard, streaks, and statistics.

Every card has its own Details, in the card's three-dot menu. That's your history with that one card: how you rated it (how many times Again, Hard, Good, and Easy), how many reviews and days you've put in, when you last saw it, when it comes back, and how many times you forgot it. If the card has several parts, it also tells you how many ignored parts it has. It only shows up in your own decks, because it's your history: there is none to show in someone else's public deck.

Search, sort and view your decks

There is a search box above the list. It sweeps every deck and subdeck of yours, not just the level you are looking at, and it matches on name, description, and the decks that contain it. Each result shows the path where it lives right under the name, so you can tell apart two subdecks with the same name. If you are inside a deck, whatever lives in it comes first, separated from the rest.

Sort lets you pick between alphabetical and creation date. Tapping the one already picked reverses it. It applies to search results too.

Filters trims the list. Visibility leaves only your public decks or only the private ones in view. And the Show switches drop the decks with nothing due and the hidden ones. When a filter is on, the button carries a number next to it.

The last button switches the view. The compact one shows the deck name and what you have due. The full one adds the description and what the deck holds: cards, subdecks and parts. On narrow screens the list is always compact, so the button shows up from tablet width up. Those numbers are also in Details, in the deck's three-dot menu. What you pick here applies to your decks only: the explorer and a profile's public decks keep their view separately.

Marking a card to review it

When a card leaves you with a doubt but you don't want to stop and fix it right then, mark it. It's a bookmark of your own: the card gets a Marked tag and you find it again when you have time.

You mark it in two places. In View cards, from the card's three-dot menu, with Mark. And mid-session, with Mark for review inside the Details button, so you don't break what you're doing. You take it off with Remove mark.

To get back to them, View cards has a Marked filter that leaves only those in view and tells you how many there are. You can also sort the list by Marked if you'd rather see them at the top without hiding the rest.

Giving a deck a color

Every deck can have a color, so you can spot it at a glance without reading the name. You pick it when you create the deck, and change it whenever you want from Edit deck, in the three dots menu. There are nine colors plus a No color option, which is how all your decks look until you pick one. To paint several at once, mark them with Select and choose Color in the bottom bar.

The color paints the deck everywhere: in your deck list, on your profile and in the explorer if the deck is public. Any deck can have one, subdecks and private decks included, so you can tell apart two subdecks of the same subject.

Moving and reorganizing

Decks are hierarchical: a deck can contain subdecks. You can move a deck inside another to build your structure by subjects and units. Cards live in the leaves of the tree, so a deck doesn't have loose cards and subdecks at the same time.

The button lives in the three-dot menu of any deck of yours, as Move. There you choose whether it should sit at the top level, next to the rest of your decks, or inside another deck you search for. If the destination is public, the moved deck and its subdecks become public.

To reorganize several at once there's Select, in the bar above the list. Decks get marked instead of opening, and a bar shows up at the bottom with Move, Color, Hide and Trash, which apply to everything you picked. The destination is the same for all of them, and each deck takes its subdecks and cards with it.

Two decks with the same name

If you create, rename or move a deck using a name another deck in the same place already has, Medkit warns you before saving and offers to save it with a number at the end, like Unit 1 (2).

Across different decks it does repeat, and that's normal: Introduction inside History and Introduction inside Biology are two decks you tell apart by where they are. The warning only shows up when both live inside the same deck, which is when they read the same on screen.

Cloning and importing don't warn you: since you didn't type the name, the number is added automatically.

Cloning a deck or a card

In the three-dot menu of any deck of yours, inside Clone and export, there's Clone. It opens the same dialog as Move: it tells you what will be copied (the whole deck, with its subdecks and all its cards) and lets you choose where the copy goes. It comes preset to where the original lives, so confirming without touching anything leaves the copy next to it, with the same name and a number at the end. At the top level it starts private even if the original is public, and if you pick a destination deck it takes that deck's visibility, same as moving.

Cards are also cloned one at a time, from the card's three-dot menu in View cards. It works the same way: the dialog starts pointing at the deck you're looking at, so confirming leaves the copy right there, ready to edit, and you can send it to another deck in that same step. That's how you build variants of a card without redoing it from scratch.

Keeping a cloned deck up to date

When you clone someone else's public deck, the copy stays synced with the original: when the author adds or fixes cards, Medkit tells you so you can bring them over. Your study progress is not lost along the way.

A synced deck is a subscription, not a deck of yours: while it stays that way you will not be able to edit it, add cards to it, delete anything inside or make it public (it is still someone else's deck). That is what makes it possible to pull the author's changes without having to guess what you touched. What is yours stays yours: your study progress, the cards you marked, the parts you ignored and the subdecks you hid.

To pull the changes, open the deck's three-dot menu and pick Check for updates. Before anything is applied you will see what changes: how many new cards there are, how many the author edited and how many they deleted. Nothing updates without your confirmation.

Cards and subdecks the author deleted go to your trash, they do not vanish. And most importantly: cards you were already studying that the author merely fixed keep your progress. They do not start over.

When you open Medkit, it checks by itself whether any of your synced decks has changes and lets you know through the bell. Tap the notice and it takes you to the deck with the summary of the changes open, the same one Check for updates shows you. That notice does not apply anything: pulling the changes is still your call. And if the original deck is deleted or stops being public, your copy unhooks on its own, stays whole and becomes editable.

Editing and deleting

Every card can be edited at any time. And deleting in Medkit isn't final: Delete sends the card (or the whole deck, with all its content) to the trash, where it can be recovered.

The trash

What you delete goes to the trash, which opens from Decks. There each deck or card lives for 7 days and is then permanently removed automatically. In the meantime you can:

• Restore: a deck with subdecks expands so you can restore just one. It goes back where it was, and if the deck that held it is gone or still in the trash, it moves up to the first one that can hold it, or to the top level.
• Delete permanently: removes it now, without waiting the 7 days. This one is permanent.

Hiding decks from your studying

If you want to take a deck out of your studying without deleting it, you can hide it: it stops coming up when you study, and hidden subdecks don't come in when you study the deck that holds them. You can undo it whenever you want. It lives in each deck's three dots menu, and for several at once, in Select.