Make flashcards

A flashcard is a question and an answer. Winda schedules it and asks you the question again later. You can have the AI write cards from something you saved, write them yourself, or import them from a file.

Making a card from a passage

The most common way to make a card is from a passage you selected while reading. Winda writes both sides for you, using the text itself, so you make the card at the moment you decide the passage is worth remembering.

This also works on text in a reply from Winda, so an explanation from a chat can become a card too.

See the Reading section for what else a selected passage can do.

Making cards from a whole document

Winda can also read a whole item in your library and suggest a set of cards from it. This is useful when you have finished reading and want the whole text covered, not only the passages you happened to select.

You can let Winda decide what is worth remembering, or you can say what to focus on: “only the dates”, or “the argument, not the examples”. You can also ask for cloze cards, which keep the original sentence and leave the key word blank.

Writing cards yourself

You can also write cards yourself, in the same drafts document where the AI’s cards arrive. A card can carry a blank to fill in, a formula, or simple formatting.

Winda saves each card as a draft as soon as both sides have text. There is no batch to finish: you can leave at any point, and every finished card is still there when you come back. A card with only one side written is not saved yet. You add the cards to practice like any other draft, choosing the folder they go to.

Bringing cards from another app

You can import cards 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.

Winda shows a preview before anything is saved: how many cards the file makes, and which lines it skipped and why. The cards then land as drafts with the whole batch already selected, so a finished deck takes one step more — you add it to practice and choose the folder — while a deck that needs weeding can be picked over card by card first.

Drafts

Every new card starts as a draft — the cards the AI writes, the cards you write yourself, and the cards you import. A draft is only a suggestion. You can read it and edit it, but Winda does not schedule it and it never comes due. Your drafts sit beside the cards already in practice, grouped by the content they came from, so you always see a source’s whole deck in one place.

Cards appear one by one as the AI writes them, so you can start reading before it finishes. You accept the ones worth keeping, and you can edit either side first. Once you accept a card, it comes due like any other. Accepting many cards at once works like an import: they enter practice gradually. By default, 20 new cards join your daily session. You can change this limit. Setting it to 0 pauses new cards; cards already in practice keep their schedule.

Drafts you do not accept are not deleted. They stay drafts until you come back for them. If you close the page while the AI is still writing, the cards it already wrote are kept.

A card made with the browser extension is the exception: you accept it right on the page, and it never waits in drafts.

What makes a good card

A card works best when it asks for one thing. The AI writes better cards from a passage with a single idea than from three pages of text, and you answer those cards faster later. If the answer to a card is a whole paragraph, it is probably several cards.

See Practice for what happens to a card once it is in practice.