The assistant can write cards for you from your material. Tell it what you want in your message, such as “Make cards for the definitions in this lecture”, and say which topic they’re for, or ask on the topic’s page.
Generate
On a topic’s Cards tab, Generate cards opens the assistant on a new chat. The space where the chat starts becomes the Generate cards panel, with these choices for the cards of that topic:
- Drop your slides, notes or papers here, or click to choose files. The files you choose show in the panel, and only this chat gets them. Pasting or dropping a file into the box where you write does the same.
- Skill is how the assistant writes the cards. Vocabulary makes a card for each word or phrase, and Questions asks about each idea in whatever kind of card fits it best. Below them are the card skills you wrote yourself, and No skill, which leaves the kind of card to the assistant.
- How many cards appears for Questions: Fewer keeps to the main points, Normal makes a card for each idea worth remembering, and More covers the details too.
- Both ways appears for Vocabulary. Turn it on to ask each card in both directions, from the word to its translation and back.
You can say what the cards should cover in the box where you write, or leave it empty. Then choose Generate. The ✕ closes the panel and keeps what you wrote. Memorics remembers your choices for each topic on this device, so they’re the same the next time you choose Generate cards there.
Generate cards among the quick actions on a topic opens the same panel. While you read a source, Cards from this page and Cards from this source ask for cards right away, with the choices you last used for its topic (see Quick actions).
Attaching what it should use
The + at the bottom of the box where you write attaches what the assistant should work from. On the page of one of your topics, it opens the sources of that topic and of the topics above it. Pick as many as you like, then press Attach. Each one shows as a small label above your message. For a PDF, click the label to choose its pages, such as pages 4 to 9, so the assistant reads only those. The ✕ on a label takes it off again.
You can also upload files there, such as a PDF, a Word document, a text or an image, even if you haven’t added them as sources. An uploaded file is only for this chat: it isn’t added to your topic. To keep it in the topic as a source, switch on Save uploads as sources of the topic before you upload. On a page without a topic of yours, the + uploads files right away. A large image, such as a photo from your phone, is made smaller before it’s uploaded.
Under each message you sent, the chat lists what was attached to it. An image shows as a small picture: click it to see it larger.
What it writes
The assistant writes basic cards, cloze cards and steps cards. It reads the pages it uses, and each card it makes from a source names the pages it’s from, so you can look them up later. A file you uploaded only for the chat isn’t a source, so cards made from it don’t name it.
Unless you turned off Review its cards first (see Instructions and settings), its cards wait for your review: they show among the topic’s cards, but only you see them, and they aren’t studied, counted or part of an exam yet.
Reviewing its cards
The cards waiting for your review show as a stack at the end of the chat, with the topic each one is for. Look at the card on top, then:
- Keep adds it to your cards, to study like any other.
- Edit (the pencil) opens it in the card editor, to change it before you keep it.
- Remove moves it to the trash. You can undo that right away, or restore it from the trash later, where it waits for your review again.
Once you keep or remove the top card, the next one comes up, so you can go through the stack one card at a time. Keep all keeps every card of the chat at once.
On a topic’s Cards tab, these cards are marked Pending. A line above them says how many cards wait for review, with Keep all for the topic. Each pending card has Keep and Remove at its bottom, and Keep, Edit, Move and Remove in its … menu.
When you keep a card in the chat and you uploaded a file only for this chat, the assistant offers to save that file as a source of the card’s topic. Choose Save to keep it with the topic, or Not now. The cards you already kept don’t name it as their source.