Card types

Medkit has six card types. Here's how to build each one, step by step. For the general idea behind each type, start with Creating decks and cards.

What they all share

Any card starts the same way: go to Create, pick the target deck, pick the card type, and fill in the content. When you're done, tap Save card. You can mix different types in the same deck.

What you put together is saved as a draft, so if you reload the page by accident you don't lose what you had. It lasts a day and only in that tab: closing it clears the draft. When it comes back, a notice above the form lets you discard it, and saving the card clears it on its own.

Front/Back

The classic card: one side with the question or concept, and the other with the answer, revealed when you flip the card.

Write the front (what you see first) and the back (the answer).
Each side takes text, an image, and audio. You can use just one or combine them.
When a side has an image, a position editor opens: drag the image to move it, pull the corners to resize it, and drag the text to place it. The bar at the bottom centers, aligns and resets the position. The magnet is on by default: whatever you drop near the center snaps there, with its guide. To leave it slightly off center, hold Shift while dragging or turn the magnet off from the bar.

The front and the back are laid out separately, so you can give each side whatever composition you want.

The composition looks the same on any screen: on a phone the card comes out smaller, but everything shrinks together and keeps its proportions, like a slide.

Multiple choice

A question with several options, one of which is correct. The others are distractors: similar options that make you think.

Write the question.
Add the options, one per line. Add as many as you need and remove the extras with the X.
Mark which one is the correct option.

You can add an image above the question: it shows before you pick, not with the answer.

When studying, Medkit tells you instantly whether you got it right. With the keyboard, keys 1 to 9 pick their option and 0 picks the 10th. The full shortcuts are in How to study.

It's the only type you don't have to rate: the rating comes from the option you pick, so the Again, Hard, Good, and Easy buttons don't appear.

Hidden words

A text where you cover some words to fill them in from memory: definitions, quotes, processes.

Write the main text.
Select a word and tap the {{}} button to turn it into a hidden word. You can hide several.
If you want several words to share the same answer (covered and revealed together), assign them to a group with {{=}}. Groups are numbered automatically (c1, c2, c3...).

You can add an image above the text if it helps. When studying, each blank is revealed separately.

If a card has several blanks and there's one you don't want to study, you can ignore just that part without deleting the card: how to do it is in Stuck, hidden, and ignored cards.

Rectangular zones

An image with rectangular regions covered up, revealed one at a time: anatomy, diagrams.

Upload the image.
Drag over the image to cover each part with a rectangle. Create as many as you need.
Tap a rectangle you already drew to select it. From there you move it by dragging, resize it by pulling the corners, and rotate it with the rotation handle that appears beside it.

With the keyboard: Shift while rotating snaps the angle to 15-degree steps, Ctrl+C and Ctrl+V copy and paste a rectangle, and Delete removes the one you have selected.

On a phone

A bar with two modes appears at the bottom, Draw and Move: they don't change what you do with the rectangles, they change what your finger does on the image. In Move your finger scrolls the page, which is the only way to get down a tall image without creating rectangles by accident. That bar doesn't exist on a computer: there the same mode goes on the H and V keys.

When studying, the zones show up covered and you uncover them one at a time to check whether you knew what was underneath.

Painted zones

Here you don't cover a region: you highlight it. You freehand-paint the exact shape of a structure and give it a name, which is what you'll have to remember. It's for when what you want to point at isn't rectangular: an artery, a lobe, the path of a nerve.

Upload the image and tap New zone.
Paint with the Brush, adjusting its thickness to trace the outline as precisely as you need. If you overshoot, the Eraser fixes it. And if you closed a shape, tap inside it with Fill and it fills in.
Pick the zone color and its opacity. The color is also something to remember: paint every artery one color and the veins another.
Give each zone a name. It's required, because when studying that name is the answer.

You can create several zones over the same image, each with its own name, color, and opacity. While painting you only see the one you are editing: <b>Show all</b> brings the rest in behind it, and the control next to it raises or lowers them together.

When studying

With Hide highlighted zone you take the color off to see the image clean, and bring it back whenever you want. You also get a background opacity control: lower it to make the zone stand out more, or raise it to see the surrounding context better.

On a phone

Just like rectangular zones, the bar with Paint and Move appears at the bottom. In Move, your finger scrolls the page instead of painting.

Numbered tags

An image with numbered tags for you to identify: maps, schematics, the parts of a whole.

Upload the image.
Click on the image to mark each tag. They are numbered automatically, in order, and you can drag any of them to adjust it, including the one you are placing.
Write each tag's name: that's the answer you'll have to remember.
To change a tag you already marked, click its number and rename or delete it.
To change its number, drag it by the handle in the References list: on the image it moves position, in the list it changes number. With the handle focused you can also move it with ↑ and ↓.

When studying, you see the image with the numbers and have to say what each one is.

Images and additional text

Some tools apply to several card types:

Editing the image: with the Edit image button, above the image, you can point things out with arrows, lines, and circles, write text on top, and with Crop, crop it or rotate it 90° at a time, all in the same window. The color and size in the bar apply to whatever you have selected, and the rotation handle that appears beside it responds with any tool: you adjust and rotate an arrow you just drew without switching. With Select you grab it again to move it, and you double click a text to rewrite it. Ctrl+Z undoes and Ctrl+Shift+Z redoes.
Additional text: every card has an optional Additional text block for a clarification, a piece of context, or a source. It appears alongside the answer when studying.
Math formulas: with the editor's Σ button you insert math with LaTeX. How to write it is in Math formulas.

What you draw is baked into the image, but Medkit keeps the original separately: you can reopen the editor whenever you want, move an arrow, widen the crop, or hit Back to original. None of it touches the rectangular zones, the painted zones, or the numbered tags, which are edited on their own.

In Rectangular zones, Painted zones, and Numbered tags the image and whatever you mark on it never go into the draft. Creating one saves no draft at all, so build it and save it in the same sitting.

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Card types

Medkit has six card types. Here's how to build each one, step by step. For the general idea behind each type, start with Creating decks and cards.

What they all share

Front/Back

The classic card: one side with the question or concept, and the other with the answer, revealed when you flip the card.

Write the front (what you see first) and the back (the answer).
Each side takes text, an image, and audio. You can use just one or combine them.
When a side has an image, a position editor opens: drag the image to move it, pull the corners to resize it, and drag the text to place it. The bar at the bottom centers, aligns and resets the position. The magnet is on by default: whatever you drop near the center snaps there, with its guide. To leave it slightly off center, hold Shift while dragging or turn the magnet off from the bar.

The front and the back are laid out separately, so you can give each side whatever composition you want.

The composition looks the same on any screen: on a phone the card comes out smaller, but everything shrinks together and keeps its proportions, like a slide.

Multiple choice

A question with several options, one of which is correct. The others are distractors: similar options that make you think.

Write the question.
Add the options, one per line. Add as many as you need and remove the extras with the X.
Mark which one is the correct option.

You can add an image above the question: it shows before you pick, not with the answer.

When studying, Medkit tells you instantly whether you got it right. With the keyboard, keys 1 to 9 pick their option and 0 picks the 10th. The full shortcuts are in How to study.

It's the only type you don't have to rate: the rating comes from the option you pick, so the Again, Hard, Good, and Easy buttons don't appear.

Hidden words

A text where you cover some words to fill them in from memory: definitions, quotes, processes.

Write the main text.
Select a word and tap the {{}} button to turn it into a hidden word. You can hide several.
If you want several words to share the same answer (covered and revealed together), assign them to a group with {{=}}. Groups are numbered automatically (c1, c2, c3...).

You can add an image above the text if it helps. When studying, each blank is revealed separately.

If a card has several blanks and there's one you don't want to study, you can ignore just that part without deleting the card: how to do it is in Stuck, hidden, and ignored cards.

Rectangular zones

An image with rectangular regions covered up, revealed one at a time: anatomy, diagrams.

Upload the image.
Drag over the image to cover each part with a rectangle. Create as many as you need.
Tap a rectangle you already drew to select it. From there you move it by dragging, resize it by pulling the corners, and rotate it with the rotation handle that appears beside it.

With the keyboard: Shift while rotating snaps the angle to 15-degree steps, Ctrl+C and Ctrl+V copy and paste a rectangle, and Delete removes the one you have selected.

On a phone

When studying, the zones show up covered and you uncover them one at a time to check whether you knew what was underneath.

Painted zones

Upload the image and tap New zone.
Paint with the Brush, adjusting its thickness to trace the outline as precisely as you need. If you overshoot, the Eraser fixes it. And if you closed a shape, tap inside it with Fill and it fills in.
Pick the zone color and its opacity. The color is also something to remember: paint every artery one color and the veins another.
Give each zone a name. It's required, because when studying that name is the answer.

When studying

On a phone

Just like rectangular zones, the bar with Paint and Move appears at the bottom. In Move, your finger scrolls the page instead of painting.

Numbered tags

An image with numbered tags for you to identify: maps, schematics, the parts of a whole.

Upload the image.
Click on the image to mark each tag. They are numbered automatically, in order, and you can drag any of them to adjust it, including the one you are placing.
Write each tag's name: that's the answer you'll have to remember.
To change a tag you already marked, click its number and rename or delete it.
To change its number, drag it by the handle in the References list: on the image it moves position, in the list it changes number. With the handle focused you can also move it with ↑ and ↓.

When studying, you see the image with the numbers and have to say what each one is.

Images and additional text

Some tools apply to several card types:

Editing the image: with the Edit image button, above the image, you can point things out with arrows, lines, and circles, write text on top, and with Crop, crop it or rotate it 90° at a time, all in the same window. The color and size in the bar apply to whatever you have selected, and the rotation handle that appears beside it responds with any tool: you adjust and rotate an arrow you just drew without switching. With Select you grab it again to move it, and you double click a text to rewrite it. Ctrl+Z undoes and Ctrl+Shift+Z redoes.
Additional text: every card has an optional Additional text block for a clarification, a piece of context, or a source. It appears alongside the answer when studying.
Math formulas: with the editor's Σ button you insert math with LaTeX. How to write it is in Math formulas.

In Rectangular zones, Painted zones, and Numbered tags the image and whatever you mark on it never go into the draft. Creating one saves no draft at all, so build it and save it in the same sitting.

PreviousCreating decks and cards Next Math formulas