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, or write them yourself.

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 a card yourself

You can also write both sides of a card yourself. A card you wrote goes straight into practice and skips drafts, because there is nothing to approve.

Drafts

Every card the AI writes goes to AI drafts first. A draft is only a suggestion. You can read it and edit it, but Winda does not schedule it and it never comes due.

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.

Drafts you do not accept are not deleted. They stay in AI 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 AI 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 Review for what happens to a card once it is in practice.