Retention
Study flashcards. Written in plain text.
A macOS application for reviewing flashcards. Use a simple text file format to define your cards.
The current file format is a text file with cards
separated into collections with ===
and sub collections with ---. Maybe
your file is named "physics-flashcards.txt". Then you
type out the cards to review. Then periodically review
them in Retention.
You can think of the text portion as a card face, and
each card face inbetween an equals separator as part of a many
sided card. I originally wanted the metaphor of a
front and back of a card, but since everything is
done via closures the metaphor stopped making sense.
===
Cardface {1} of Collection {1} with 3 {closures} to study.
---
Cardface {2} of collection {1} with text that hides when {testing}.
===
Collection 2 starts {here} after the ===.
---
Cardface {2} of collection {2} starts after the {---}.
===
Each cardface is reviewable. Master each card in a review
session. The general goal is to add features to make
reviewing and mastering the cards simple.
The card format might eventually drift. The goal is to
support images and math text eventually with equally
simple and memorable text markup. Markdown variants or
liquid text template variants may be necessary.
All applications are currently free to try. If you find one useful, please consider paying for it if your time is valuable, or
share it with a friend otherwise.
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