There are countless other flashcards applications. On top of that, there is Anki, which is free to use for everybody. Also, for someone using emacs, there exists org-drill mode. Despite all that why does this application exists?
- This application got inspired by Andy Matuschak’s post on writing prompts where the context is constantly hovering around. It seems to provide a context around the context.
- It got tiresome to write the flashcards for Anki with the anki-editor. Therefore, the project aims to ease the process of creating flashcards.
The application takes in .org files and parses the flashcards and corresponding context. It does so based on the following simple rule.
- Each context starts with heading 1 (represented by
*). This heading has a tag calledcontext. - Questions start with heading 2 (represented by
**). It should have a tag called ascard - Answers start with heading 3 (represented by
***). It doesn’t require any tag.
The following example demonstrates the above rules.
* Note title :context: This is a note. ** What is this?. :card: *** A note.
That is the entire process of creating flashcards. To import the cards to the application use Import folder button inside the application, and point to the folder where there are org files.
The reason to import folders rather than files is that those who use org-mode along with org-roam tend to have a folder consisting of many notes.
As of moment there isn’t any latest release. Therefore only way to use it to clone the repo and build using cargo. Make sure rust and cargo is installed. Visit this link to get started.
cargo run --releaseAny other behaviors and the app will crash by default! Do file bug reports in such cases.
As of now, the spaced repetition uses the SM-2 algorithm. The details can be found here.