Decks

A deck holds the cards you have decided to keep. Saving a card into a deck is what makes it yours — from that moment Winda schedules it, and it comes due like any other card.

Decks and your cards

A card belongs to exactly one deck. You can make as many decks as you want — one per subject, one per source, or just one for everything.

You can move a card from one deck to another at any time.

Two kinds of card

A card is either a flashcard or a multiple-choice question, and one deck can hold both.

A flashcard has a question and an answer. You recall the answer in your head, then turn the card over and say whether you had it.

A multiple-choice question has a question and several answers to choose from. Usually one of them is right, but a question can have more than one — then answering it means picking every one, and a partial answer counts the same as a wrong one. Either way Winda tells you straight away whether you had it: there is nothing to grade yourself on, because your choice already said it.

Which one suits a fact depends on what you want to be able to do with it. Recall is the harder skill and the more useful one, so a flashcard is the better default. A question is worth choosing when the distinctions between similar options are the thing worth learning, or when recalling the answer cold is not really the point.

A card’s kind is fixed when it is made. You can change everything about a card afterwards — its wording, its options, which of them are right — but not turn one kind into the other.

Making a card from a passage

A card made from a passage is the most common kind. Winda writes the card from the text you selected, so you make it at the moment you decide the passage is worth remembering. You say which kind of card you want, and Winda remembers that choice for the next passage. This also works on text in a reply from Winda, so an explanation from a chat can become a card too.

Winda shows you the cards it wrote before anything is saved. You can review and edit them, then save them into a deck. Cards you do not save are not stored anywhere.

See Reading for what else a selected passage can do.

Making cards from a whole document

Winda can also read an entire library item and propose a set of cards from it, of whichever kind you ask for. You can let it decide what is worth remembering, or say what to focus on — the main ideas, or specific details. You can also ask for cloze cards, which keep the original sentence and leave the key word blank.

The proposed cards go through the same review: you keep what is good, and the rest is discarded without a trace.

Generating from a whole document is useful when you have finished reading and want the material covered, rather than only the few passages you happened to select along the way.

Writing a card yourself

You can write cards yourself, directly in a deck — either kind. A card you write is saved as you write it: there is nothing to review, because you are the author. A question is saved once it is answerable, which means it needs a question, at least two options, and one of them marked as the right answer.

Importing cards from another app

You can import flashcards you already have somewhere else, from a file: an Anki text export, a Quizlet export, or any CSV or TSV file with one card per line — the question, then the answer. Importing makes flashcards only; a file of two columns has no options to import. Winda shows you the parsed cards first, and you save the whole batch into a deck.

Saving a card starts its schedule

There is no separate step that turns a saved card into a practiced card. Every card in a deck is scheduled, and new cards enter that deck’s daily session gradually: by default, up to 20 new cards join per day. The pace belongs to the deck — each deck lets in its own new cards at its own rate, so importing a large file floods neither tomorrow’s review nor any other deck’s. You can change a deck’s pace; setting it to 0 pauses new cards for that deck, and cards you have already answered keep their schedule.

See Practice for how a session works and how the schedule decides when a card comes back.

Deleting cards and decks

Deleting a card removes it and its review history.

Deleting a deck deletes every card in it, together with their review history. This is not recoverable, so Winda asks before doing it. To keep some cards from a deck you are about to delete, move them to another deck first.

You can share a deck as a public page that anyone with the link can open. Viewing it does not need a Winda account.

A shared deck follows the original. When you add, edit, or remove cards, the page changes with them. You can stop sharing at any time, and the link stops working.

A person who saves your deck receives their own copy. They can edit or delete its cards, and your later changes do not reach it. Review progress is not copied; the cards enter the new owner’s reviews as new cards, a few each day rather than all at once. Saving the same deck again returns them to the copy they already have.

Cards and the content they came from

A card remembers which library item it came from. Deleting the library item does not delete the card — it keeps the source’s title, and its schedule is untouched. What you learned stays yours after the material is gone.