Paste your notes and revise them with spaced repetition
Quizlet puts the study modes that actually work behind a subscription. Spaced repetition is a published algorithm from 1987 and it runs perfectly well on your own machine. Paste definitions and they become cards; paste prose and you blank out the words worth testing, which is how anyone serious makes cards from a paragraph.
term: definition, dashes, tabs, Q: and A: lines, bullets, numbered lists and markdown headings
Blank out the words that matter and the sentence becomes the card, Anki style
SM-2, the algorithm behind SuperMemo and Anki
None. No cap on cards, decks, or rounds a day
Local storage in this browser, exportable as JSON or CSV
How to use it
- If your notes are definitions, paste them. Colons, dashes, tabs, bullets, numbered lists and headings all read correctly.
- If your notes are prose, switch to blanking out instead: select the word or phrase you want to be tested on and press the button. You get one card per blank.
- Read every card in the preview and throw out the weak ones. A bad card is worse than no card, because you will see it every few days.
- Study. Say whether you got it, and the card is scheduled accordingly. Come back tomorrow.
Questions
What is SM-2 and why does it matter?
It is the scheduling algorithm published with SuperMemo in 1987 and still the basis of Anki. Each card carries an ease factor and an interval. Answer well and the interval multiplies; answer badly and it resets to a day. The effect is that you spend your time on the cards you keep forgetting instead of the ones you already know.
Will I lose my decks?
They live in this browser on this device, so they survive refreshes and closing the tab, but not clearing your browser data and not moving to another machine. Export to JSON if a deck matters to you. There is no account, which is the trade: nothing to sign up for, and nothing syncing for you either.
Does this use AI to write the cards?
No, and it would be worse if it did. Turning a paragraph into good questions needs a real language model, which in a browser means a download of several hundred megabytes to produce mediocre cards slowly, and on a server means your notes leaving your device and somebody paying per essay. Blanking out the words yourself takes about ten seconds a card, tests exactly what you decided matters, and is what the technique actually calls for.
What should I blank out?
The word you would lose the mark for forgetting. Names, dates, quantities, the one technical term in the sentence. Blanking a whole clause makes a card you can never quite answer, and blanking "the" makes one that teaches nothing.
Can I study on my phone?
Yes, the cards are tap to flip. The deck lives in whichever browser you made it in, so a deck made on a laptop will not appear on your phone unless you export it and import it there.