Today shows everything due across your topics, and Study in the middle of the navigation goes through all of it in one session, one topic after another. Opening the app, pressing Study and following along is enough to keep up every day.
What’s on Today
The ring in the middle shows the day’s topics in their colors, each as long as its share of the cards, with how many cards there are, about how long they take, and how many are due and new. Start studying (or S) begins. Once you’ve started, it says Continue.
Today includes:
- your exams that are being prepared for, first (see Study for an exam)
- your own topics, with their subtopics, except archived ones
- the topics of other people that you pinned
A pinned topic inside another pinned topic only adds the cards the other doesn’t have, so you never study a card twice in a day.
Plan your day
Below the ring, the topics are listed in the order you’ll study them: exams first, then topics with cards you started but didn’t finish, then topics with reviews due, the most overdue first, then topics with only new cards. Each row shows what the topic has today and about how long it takes, and where breaks would fall between topics.
Each topic’s … menu has Study next, Later today and Skip today. Skipped topics are listed at the bottom with Study today to bring them back. Click a topic’s number of new cards to begin fewer or more new cards today.
The time you have
Under Time you have, choose 15, 30 or 60 minutes, or All of today. With a time set, the topic you’re studying finishes up by itself once the cards you started fill the time left, and the session stops between topics once the time is used. It’s meant for one sitting: about half an hour after the time would have run out, it no longer applies.
The day’s session
Each topic is studied on its own, with its subtopics mixed together, the same as studying it on its page. Between two topics, the next one is shown with how many cards it has and about how long it takes, along with how the last one went:
- Start (Enter) begins it.
- Later (L) moves it to the end of the day.
- Take a break (B) appears when a break is due. See Wrap up and breaks.
The first time, it also asks how much time you have. During a topic, Next topic in the session’s Options, or N, moves on. If you’ve already answered cards in it, those are finished first, and the rest of the topic comes at the end of the day.
The day’s session is always spaced repetition. To practice a topic, start it from the topic’s page.
When you’re done
Once nothing is left, Today shows how the day went: the cards you reviewed and learned, the time you studied, each topic, the cards you missed most, and when the next cards are due. Where new cards are waiting, Learn N more studies some of them.
A new study day begins at 4 in the morning, so studying past midnight still counts for the day before. If you leave the day’s session, it carries on where you left off the next time you open Study that day on the same device.