How does Medkit work?

A deck groups cards by topic, and it can hold subdecks to separate units. You can study one subdeck on its own, or the whole deck in a single session.

You can also clone a public deck from the explorer and start with material that is already made.

Cards come in six formats, three of them built on an image. You can mix them in a single deck.

If you already have material in another app there's no need to redo it: Medkit imports from Anki, from a CSV spreadsheet, and from a JSON file.

In a session you see the question, think of the answer, and reveal it. Then you pick one of four options depending on how it went, and that's all the algorithm needs.

From those ratings Medkit uses FSRS, a spaced-repetition algorithm, to estimate how long your memory of each card lasts and schedule it right before it fades. One that's hard for you comes back often, and one you've mastered spreads out to days, weeks, and then months.

If your internet drops halfway through you can keep answering: your answers are saved on the device and sync when the signal comes back.

The dashboard opens with how many cards are due today, your daily goal, and your streak, and from there you start a single session with cards from all your decks, up to the day's goal.

Further down are the decks giving you the most trouble, plus alerts for anything that needs attention: a deck you left behind, cards that got stuck, or a streak about to break.