Flashcards

Official decks and your own

There are two ways to start:

• Official decks. Browse them by subject from Browse official decks and press Add to my decks. You get your own copy, which you can edit, reorder and study like any deck.
• Your own decks. Make a deck and write cards in it. Decks can sit in folders.

Card types

• Basic: a front and a back.
• Basic and reversed: two cards, one each way.
• Basic, optional reverse: a reverse card only when you fill in the reverse field.
• Cloze: a sentence with parts hidden, one card for each hidden part. Select the words and press the Cloze button.
• Type the answer: you type the answer and Augment compares it, letter by letter.

Cards can hold math, tables, lists and images.

How scheduling works

When a card comes up, think of the answer, reveal it (Space), then rate how well you knew it:

• Again (1): you didn't know it. It comes back soon.
• Hard (2), Good (3), Easy (4): it waits longer each time, longer still for Easy.

The aim is to see each card just before you would forget it. The scheduler is Anki's SM-2 by default; you can switch a deck's options to FSRS. Each deck shows 20 new cards and up to 200 reviews a day unless you change its options.

Revision that works explains why spaced practice beats rereading.

Studying offline

Your cards are stored in your browser, so you can study without a connection. What you do syncs in the background while you're online, and catches up when a lost connection comes back.

Using more than one device

Sign in on each device. Each one keeps its own copy and syncs with the others. Reviews from every device all count. If you edit the same card's text on two devices before they sync, Augment asks which version to keep.

When you log out, Augment tries to sync first and warns you if some changes haven't gone up yet. It then removes the cards from that browser, so the next person to use it starts clean.

Updates to official decks

When we change an official deck you've added, your copy shows Update available. Updating adds new cards and takes our corrections while keeping your progress on each card. Where you've changed a card we also changed, you choose which version to keep. Cards you deleted don't come back, and cards we removed that you've studied stay unless you choose to delete them.

Hiding cards for a while

On the study screen, B buries a card until tomorrow and S suspends it until you bring it back. The card browser lists hidden cards and brings them back.

Stats

The stats page shows your reviews, retention and card counts for a deck, a folder or everything, by month, year or all time. It's worked out on your device.

Importing from Anki

Not yet. There's no import or export of Anki deck files today.

Images on cards

Images you upload to cards are stored at long, unguessable web addresses, so anyone who has the address can open them. Don't put anything private in a card image.