Daily Deck is a wonderful new flash card app that schedules your flash card review for you.
Reviewing flash cards is as easy as swiping left if you can't recall and right if you can. Daily Deck will track your review progress, and using a spaced repetition system, will determine when you should review the cards again. The better you are at recalling a card, the longer you'll need to wait to review it again. Harder cards will be reviewed again sooner.
As the name implies, the app will curate a small deck of cards for you to review each day. If you're more eager, you can even set up a more frequent schedule. (How about a review in the morning and one in the evening?)
Daily Deck knows that as the day progresses, you gain a little bit of mental review energy, so you can even set up the app to let you review continuously as the day progresses. This is a great way to fill up a few minutes here in there.
If you're really in a crunch, there's even a cram mode that will let you review cards multiple times in a short period for those times when you really need to remember something in a short amount of time. (Be warned, however, this is only recommend for extreme cases as your memory needs to review things over long periods of time to have them be fully ingrained.)
Want to share the cards you've created with others? Simply export to a file, send to your friend, and they can import the cards you've created into their full deck.
A Mac app is available as well! For those of us at desk jobs, why not have Daily Deck for macOS always running, ready for you to do a quick review or even to create a few cards quickly using your keyboard.
Many apps require you to pay a fee for them to save your data to their servers. Daily Deck does away with those fees by letting you sync your data using file-based cloud storage services like Dropbox, One Drive, or iCloud. Just sign in to your cloud storage account with the app and it'll do the rest to make sure your data is sync'ed across your multiple devices.
For flash cards to really be effective, they need to be, well, memorable. A great way to make them memorable is by making use of images or audio.
Okay, so this self-learning thing requires discipline, especially when it comes to creating new flash cards for yourself. Daily Deck will look ahead to the next two weeks and determine if you are going to run out of cards to review. If you are, it will let you know that you need to create some cards, and how many.
If Daily Deck finds that there aren't enough cards to review today, it will also let you know that you should create some more because you've got the energy to review them.
Have you ever wanted to learn the meaning of sentence in another language? If you're learning a language seriously, you soon learn that you can't just commit a sentence to memory. You need to learn all the individual words first. However, those sentences are still useful to try to memorize when you eventually do learn those individual words. Daily Deck makes learning these sentences easy by letting you create "dependent cards".
Simply create a card with a sentence in it and after doing so, create sub-cards, one with each word in the sentence. Now go and review as you normally would. Daily Deck won't present the sentence card to you for practice until it has determined that you've adequately learned all the dependent cards. So, next time you want to learn a long, challenging sentence, go ahead and add a card for it, but create those depend cards next.
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