Everything you study lives in a topic: its cards, its sources and its subtopics. A topic can be a subject, a lecture or a book, and subtopics can go as deep as you like, such as a topic per course with a subtopic per week. When you study a topic, its subtopics are part of it.
Add a topic
On Topics, choose Add topic or press N. Only a name is needed, up to 40 characters. A new topic gets a random icon and color.
To add a subtopic, open the topic, go to its Subtopics tab and choose Add subtopic, or press N there. A subtopic starts with the icon and color of the topic it’s in.
You can also add a topic from the search with New topic.
Rename it or change its look
On a topic’s page, click its name to rename it, or click its tile to choose another icon and color. You can also rename a topic from its menu (below). Two topics may have the same name.
A topic’s tile
Each tile shows the topic’s name and, below it, how much there is to study. That’s how many cards are due (“12 due”), or when the next ones are (“Next tomorrow”), and how many cards it holds with its subtopics. Topics are sorted by name, with numbers in order, so “Chapter 2” comes before “Chapter 12”.
Right-click a tile, or use its … button, for its menu: Rename, Share, Publish, Pin or Unpin, Move, Select, Archive and Move to trash.
A topic’s page
A topic’s page has three tabs, each with a count:
- Subtopics, the topics inside it.
- Cards, the cards of this topic itself. A topic opens on this tab once it has cards.
- Sources, the material its cards come from. Only a topic’s owner has this tab, so nobody else ever sees your sources.
The button to add something matches the tab you’re on (Add subtopic, Add card or Add sources), and N does the same. Study next to it studies the topic with all its subtopics, and S presses it. Next to the tabs are a filter for the tab (Flagged on Cards, Pinned on Subtopics) and Select.
At the top of the page you’ll find the topics it’s in, to go back up, and the topic’s pin and sharing. Its … menu has the rest: Rename, Add subtopic, Publish, Move, Select, Archive and Move to trash, and Reset progress for all cards once some of its cards have progress.
The Exams button shows which of your upcoming exams include the topic, and lets you add it to one or start a new exam with it. See Add an exam.