How it works

Getting started

1. Sign in with Google. There is no separate password to create — the first sign-in makes your account. Your answers are filed against a hash of your email address.
2. Upload a deck. You land on your notecards. Drop an Anki export — a .colpkg or .apkg, up to 200 MB — onto the box, or use Choose a deck…. The file is opened and checked as it arrives, so anything that is not really a deck is refused straight away.
3. Click a deck to study it. Each deck in the list is a link. Clicking it starts a quiz on that deck and nothing else.

Anki itself is never needed, and your decks stay on this server under your own account.

Taking a quiz

The card's question is read aloud as it appears. Above it you will see which card you are on, which deck it came from, and how many times you have answered this card before — not seen before, seen once, seen 4 times.

The buttons

Keyboard

Talking to it

You do not have to reach for a button. Instead of an answer, just say:

Answering: voice or typing

Voice is the default: press the button, say your answer, press it again. What you said is transcribed on the server and graded as text.

Typing works identically. Open Settings → Answering and choose Typing; the record button is replaced by a box, and enter submits. The same text reaches the same grader, so your score does not depend on which you use — and the voice commands above still work when typed.

Typing is the escape hatch whenever the microphone is not available: a machine without one, a quiet room, or a browser that will not grant permission. Your choice is remembered on that device.

How you are marked

Flashcard answers are prose, and nobody recites them word for word. Marking asks did you cover this, not did you repeat this.

Answers that list several points are marked point by point. Cover three of four and you get about three quarters, not zero. After you answer, each point appears with a tick or a cross so you can see which one you missed.

Borderline answers are handed back to you. When a score falls between your two thresholds the software will not call it, and offers Count it correct / No, wrong. Nothing is recorded until you choose.

Disagreeing with the mark

The mark is a starting point, not a verdict. Three ways to change it, all of which update the answer already in your history rather than adding a second one:

The pass mark is yours, set on the profile page — so the colours change where you decide they should.

When cards come back

Answer a card well and it goes away for longer. Miss it and it is back tomorrow. That is the whole idea, and after every answer a small badge beside your score says when: again in 12 days.

A deck studied in Anki arrives already spaced. Anki keeps four numbers on every card — when it is next due, how long the current interval is, how easily you remember it, and how many times you have seen and forgotten it. This site reads all four out of the file you upload. A card sitting on a 45-day interval in Anki is on a 45-day interval here, and answering it well extends that interval rather than starting you over.

Then it becomes your schedule, not Anki's. From your first answer onward the site keeps its own record, because it has seen you answer the card and Anki has not. Two things follow from that: re-uploading the deck cannot overwrite what you have earned, and two people studying the same deck keep entirely separate schedules.

What moves a card, and how far

Where those lines fall is set by your pass mark, on the profile page. Grade yourself strictly and you get a tighter schedule.

Studying what is due

Choose Settings → Quiz type → Due for review for the spaced-repetition session: the cards today asks for, the most overdue first, followed by new cards in the order the deck introduces them. The line under the settings tells you the split — 29 due for review, then 121 new cards — so a quiet day is never mistaken for an empty deck.

Cards you suspended in Anki stay suspended here: they are labelled, and the review queue passes over them.

Re-marking an answer re-works the date rather than pushing the card out twice — correcting a mark you disagreed with will not send a card you actually missed months into the future.

Settings

The Settings panel sits under the buttons on the quiz page, collapsed until you want it. Choosing any filter starts a fresh pass over what is left, and the line at the bottom tells you how many cards that is.

Quiz type is remembered between visits, like the reading speed. It applies after the three filters, so you can take the weakest cards from one objective, or revisit only what you missed from one reading.

The three filters narrow each other. Pick an objective and the Source list shrinks to the readings that objective actually covers, with the count beside each option, so you can never land on an empty deck by accident.

Changing a filter mid-answer throws that answer away rather than marking it against a card from the deck you just left.

Your decks

Your notecards lists everything you have uploaded, with the number of notes, cards and media files, the deck names inside the file, its size and when you added it. Click one to quiz on it.

Uploading a file with a name you have used before replaces it. Decks are stored per account — nobody else on this server can see or reach yours.

Your history

Your history keeps every answer you have given: the objective, the source, what you said, the correct answer and your score, with your totals across the top.

Sorting by lowest score first is the quickest way to find what to study next.

Your profile

Your profile holds your account, your totals and a per-deck breakdown. Two things are worth knowing:

You set how strictly you are graded. Two sliders: the score needed to count as correct, and the score below which an answer is simply wrong. Between them is the band where you are asked to decide. Save them, or take Use the defaults to go back — and the defaults then follow the app if they ever change, which is not the same as pinning today's numbers.

You can forget a deck. Deleting your answers for one deck asks for confirmation first and cannot be undone. The deck file stays; only your history for it goes.

If something goes wrong

Whatever the microphone is doing, typing mode runs a complete quiz without it.