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Review

In a review, Winda shows you the cards that are due, one at a time. You say whether you remembered each one, and your answer decides when that card comes back.

Review today

Review today is the daily review. Winda chooses the cards: everything that is due, and nothing else. A review can cover all your cards, one folder, or the cards made from one piece of content.

Every answer is saved and sets the card’s next date. Winda saves each answer as you give it, so you can stop halfway without losing anything. The cards you did not reach stay due.

This is the one thing in Winda you need to do every day. When the count reaches zero, you are finished until tomorrow.

Free review

Free review goes through every card in a folder or from one piece of content, due or not. Use it the night before an exam, or any time you want to see a whole subject at once instead of the few cards that are due today.

A free review changes nothing. Your answers are not saved, no card’s next date moves, and the same cards are still due when you finish. It is extra practice, not a replacement for the daily review.

How the schedule works

Winda schedules cards with spaced repetition. The idea is simple: you remember something for longer if you are asked about it just before you forget it. So a card you keep getting right should come back less and less often.

You have two answers, and that is the whole grading:

  • Knew it makes the next gap longer: about two days the first time, then a week or two, then months, and eventually years.
  • Forgot brings the card back later in the same review, after the cards you have not seen yet, and it keeps coming back until you answer Knew it. The gap then starts growing again from near the beginning, however long it had become before.

Here is one card that you answer Knew it every time:

Answer Comes back after
1st 2 days
2nd 11 days
3rd 6 weeks
4th 5 months
5th a year and a half
6th almost 4 years

Answer Forgot on that last one and the card comes back later in the same review, and then in about a week instead of years.

Keyboard shortcuts

Key
Space / Enter Show the answer, then Knew it
F Show the answer, then Forgot
Previous / next card
E Edit the card in front of you
Esc Leave

Space is enough on its own for a card you know: press it once to see the answer, and once more to answer Knew it.

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