Reveal the answer
Try to recall the answer first, then reveal it: press Space or Enter, click the card, or choose Reveal. Cards with several parts reveal them one at a time:
- a basic card reveals its answer
- a cloze card reveals its gaps in reading order, and you can click any gap to reveal it
- a steps card reveals its steps in order
- an image occlusion card reveals its hidden areas row by row, and you can click any of them
To reveal everything left at once, press Shift Space. Revealing never rates a card, so you can’t rate one by accident with Space.
A hint above the card tells you when a card is asked the other way round.
Rate yourself
Once everything is revealed, say how it went:
- Again (1): you didn’t remember it.
- Hard (2): you remembered it, but it took real effort.
- Good (3): you remembered it.
- Easy (4): you knew it right away.
In practice, there are only Again and Good. Each button shows when the card comes back if you choose it, such as “4d” for in 4 days or “3mo” for in 3 months. A button without a time keeps the card in the session for now.
Be honest rather than kind to yourself. Memorics plans your reviews from your ratings, and an honest Again now saves you from forgetting it later.
How a session goes
The dots above the card show how many Good ratings in a row it still needs. A new card needs two, a card you’re reviewing one. Again starts its dots over. The badge next to them shows the card’s status: New, Learning, Review or Relearning, or Practice in practice.
Cards are studied in rounds of up to 20, so a card you missed comes back within a few minutes, even in a big topic. Memorics mixes the order so that cards from the same subtopic, cards of the same kind and both ways of a card don’t follow each other.
The bar at the top shows your progress, how many cards are left, and, after a few answers, about how long they’ll take at your pace.
Other things you can do
- Ask later (L): for an answer you revealed by accident. The card goes to the next round without a rating, by when you’ll have forgotten what you just saw.
- Undo (Z): takes back your last rating, Ask later or Wrap up, even from the end of the session.
- Edit (E): fixes the card right there, on your own topics. The session goes on with the card as you saved it.
- Flag (F): flags or unflags the card for you.
- Source (S): once the answer is revealed, reads the card’s source beside the session. See Cite sources on cards.
- Wrap up (W): finishes the cards you started and ends the session. See Wrap up and breaks.
Options
Options (O), the sliders at the top right, opens a panel with:
- the mode: spaced repetition or practice, with the new cards for today
- how to answer: flashcards or typing
- which cards: all of them or only the flagged ones
- whether cards show their sources
- Wrap up and Start over
- the list of keys, on a computer
Changing an option keeps what you’ve done so far: finished cards stay finished, and the ones you’re working on come first.
Leave
Back at the top, or Esc, leaves the session. You can pick it up again later. See Leave and pick up a session.