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Make your own or import flash cards. The app predicts when you will start forgetting something and bring it up again

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This app is only available on the App Store for iOS devices.

Description

Flashcards that put learning on auto pilot and help you to retain information MUCH longer with less effort.

How it works-

SmartCards+ suggests a daily review based on your ongoing performance on each flashcard. Suggested reviews are scheduled based on a sophisticated algorithm that predicts when you are likely to forget a card and shows it to you before that happens. Using proven spaced repetition concepts, cards you know well will be shown less and less over time while cards you forget will be reviewed more frequently until they are back into long term memory. It's an amazingly efficient way to learn and retain large amounts of material.

Cram with Custom Reviews Anytime-

SmartCards+ has smart filters to help you easily create custom reviews based on your needs. Easily review cards based on tags, performance over time, recall strength and more.

Create your own flashcards or import premade flashcard decks-

Easily create your own flashcards with text images and sound. You can also import pre-made decks from other popular flashcard programs.

Anki and Quizlet Import-

SmartCards+ can easily import Anki and Quizlet decks you are already studying. Decks imported from Anki retains your study history, and card tags and certain settings so you can pick up right where you left off!

Interactive Statistics-

Beautiful charts and statistics show how you are progressing. Keep track of overall recall rate, total cards learned, upcoming review schedule and more.

Other Features:

Smart keyboard switching for language learners
Fine grain settings for each deck to customize learning
Review text, images or sound
Test spelling via typed answer reviews
Real time cloud sync
Import Decks from other flash card systems
iPad split screen support
iPhone X ready
Drag and drop support

SmartCards+ is free to try and allows 25 daily reviews. SmartCard+ has a yearly auto-renewable subscription to unlock unlimited reviews.

Subscription information:

Payment will be charged to iTunes Account at confirmation of purchase . Subscription automatically renews unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24-hours before the end of the current period . Account will be charged for renewal within 24-hours prior to the end of the current period. Current price for SmartCards+ Premium is $7.99 per year. Subscriptions may be managed by the user and auto-renewal may be turned off by going to the user's Account Settings after purchase . Any unused portion of a free trial period, if offered, will be forfeited when the user purchases a subscription to that publication, where applicable

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The import from copy paste feature is very limited and doesn't allow for wildcards like the = determine front of cards versus back of card. The example given doesn't explain very well nor use any punctuation to allow the user more control over copy paste import function. It only has Google drive and two other flash card websites for archiving. You never know when one of these flash card websites would close. You think that be the ability to make a zip file or I don't know, use dropbox or iCloud. But they don't.

Pretty much, every Flashcards app on the iPhone has limited features, or doesn't allow for archiving properly. I'm not sure why someone doesn't develop an app with the proper features of audio recording image support and archiving. But no one has.

Archiving is possible to any service or app that connects with the iOS share sheet. Sharing to iCloud and DropBox is certainly possible. Please contact me at dynamicappdesign@gmail.com if you are still having trouble.

Best,

Joe

This has the potential to go the distance. Truly. I'm a flash card fanatic. Before this, ive used THREE different flash card apps simultaneously for different things. I want to see this app bundle all their strengths into one place. For that I would pay an even higher rate-

Developers this app is incredible so far. I love the ankii style review system, with the flexible phone friendly card creation of say quizlet. A couple suggestions.

Short term- You've GOT to give me the ability to organize these into groups. I want to have dozens of decks and not have to lose time scrolling through a list of like 60.

Long term- Id love to be able to rate my confidence on my card instead of just a got it/missed it scale. That is, rate it on a gradient and have the review system take that into account. Like brainscape.

LONG long term- See and download other people's decks. Review cards in game form (see quizlet)

Again... deck groups seem like the no brainer :/ I feel you might actually be losing people from not having that.

All said, AMAZING potential!!

I am using this for French and Cisco CCNP studies and I love it. I find it much more user friendly than Anki and the interface is modern and easy to use.
The spaced repetition algorithm works very well for my brain and I am memorizing much.
Getting decks off of the Anki website is a snap, I have not tried getting decks off of Quizlet so I can't speak to it.
Also, you can't beat the price for a year of use, around $7 is way better than over double that for Anki's app.
This is a winner.

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This app is only available on the App Store for iOS devices. Flashcards that put learning on auto pilot and help you to retain information MUCH longer with less effort. How it works- SmartCards+ suggests a daily review based on your ongoing performance on each flashcard.

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Revising over time rather than cramming. 5 hours over 2 weeks is better than 5 hours the day before the exam

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But spacing your learning requires advance planning. If you have the summer off, then now is the best time to plan for spaced practice in the Fall.
How should you space your learning?

Start planning early - the beginning of the semester, or even earlier. Set aside a bit of time every day, just for studying, even if your exams are months away. This may seem strange at first, if you are used to cramming right before an exam; but it's just a new habit that you will get used to if you persevere.

Review information from each class, but not immediately after class. A good way to do this is to reserve some time one day after each of your classes meet. For example, if you have classes Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, you might review the information on Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday respectively for each of those classes.

Spacing your learning doesn't mean you won't be studying at all right before the exam. You can still study up until the exam - but instead of only studying then, spread it out so that you're studying days and weeks before the exam as well. You'll spend less time and learn more, in the short-term and in the long-term.

What should you do during these short learning sessions?
It's important that you don't just sit down and re-read your notes. Instead, you should use effective learning strategies such as retrieval practice or elaboration.

After you study information from the most recent class, make sure to go back and study important older information to keep it fresh.

This may seem difficult and you may forget some information from day to day, but this is actually a good thing! You need to forget a little bit in order to benefit from spaced practice - see this guest post for an explanation.

Create small spaces (e.g., a few days) between your study sessions, and do a little bit at a time, so that it adds up!
"But, but...cramming works!"
If you're reading this and you're skeptical because cramming has worked just fine for you in the past, here's why. Cramming can, indeed, do exactly what it suggests - cram information into your mind right before an exam. However, there are at least three really big problems with this.

1. First, cramming actually takes more time. Think about it: if you learn more in the same amount of time spaced out (e.g., 5 hours in 1-hour increments compared to one 5-hour cram session), then you have to spend more time during the cramming session to get to the same level of learning.

2. Second, as quickly as you learned that information, you will then also forget it. You may do fine on the test, but all that extra time you spent during cramming? It will all have been wasted. If you had spaced your learning, you would forget much less after the test. No matter what you are learning - science, math, a foreign language - future learning will depend on previous learning. It is therefore very inefficient to forget everything you learned for one test, only to have to re-learn it again later along with new, more complicated information! This also applies to future classes, where it might be helpful to retain knowledge from a previous class.

3. Another reason why cramming is a bad idea is that it inevitably replaces sleep, which is very important for learning and also for your mental and physical health more generally. So, resolve to form a healthy habit today and plan to space your learning!

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Switching between topics when revising - particularly useful for linking ideas

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This is the fourth in a series of six posts designed to help students learn how to study effectively. The purpose is to provide students with a resource that can help them take charge of their own learning. So far, we have posted on:

Today's post is about interleaving - that is, switching between ideas while you study.
What is interleaving?
Imagine you are sitting down to a study session. You have an exam coming up, and all sorts of different topics to study for it. How should you study them - one at a time, or switching between them?

Here's what the research suggests: You shouldn't study one idea, topic, or type of problem for too long. Instead, you should change it up often. Interleaving like this may seem harder than studying one type of material for a long time, but this is actually more helpful in the long run. This strategy is particularly useful if you're studying something that involves problem solving - like math or physics - interleaving can help you choose the correct strategy to solve a problem (1). Interleaving can also help you to see the links, similarities, and differences between ideas (2).
How often should you switch topics?
This is a very important thing to consider. While it's good to switch between ideas, don't switch too often, or spend too little time on any one idea; you need to make sure you've covered some ground before tackling a new idea. Switching too often can start looking more like "multi-tasking", and you definitely don't want to do that.
What should you do while interleaving?

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Basically case studies! Use the case studies to help you learn concepts

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This is the fifth in a series of six posts designed to help students learn how to study effectively. The purpose is to provide students with a resource that can help them take charge of their own learning. So far, we have posted on:

Today's post is about concrete examples - that is, using specific examples to understand abstract ideas.
Why do you need concrete examples?
Abstract ideas can be vague and hard to grasp. Moreover, human memory is designed to remember concrete information better than abstract information (1). To really nail down an abstract idea, you need to solidify it in your mind. You can do this by being specific and concrete.

Take "scarcity" as an example of an abstract idea. Scarcity can be explained as follows: the rarer something is, the higher its value will be. But this description contains a lot of vague terms, such as "rarer" and "value". How can we make this idea more concrete? We could use a specific example to illustrate the idea.

Think about an airline company. If you were to try and book a flight four months in advance, the ticket prices would probably be pretty reasonable. But as it gets closer to the date of travel, there will be fewer seats left on the plane (the seats are more rare). This scarcity drives up the cost (value) of the tickets. This is a concrete example of scarcity, which is an abstract idea.

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Explaining and describing using detail. Questioning yourself.

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The term elaboration canbe used to mean a lot of different things. However, when we are talking about studying using elaboration, it involves explaining and describing ideas with many details. Elaboration also involves making connections among ideas you are trying to learn and connecting the material to your own experiences, memories, and day-to-day life.

Elaborative interrogation is a specific method of elaboration. The word interrogation means to question. So, when you use elaborative interrogation, you ask yourself questions about how and why things work, and then produce the answers to these questions (1). The specific questions that you ask yourself will depend, in part, on the topics you are studying (e.g., how does x work? Why does x happen? When did x happen? What caused x? What is the result of x? and so on).
How should you use the elaborative interrogation technique?
So, as a student, how should you go about using elaborative interrogation while you study? There are a few different things you can do right now:

Start by making a list of all of the ideas you need to learn from your class materials. Then, go down the list and ask yourself questions about how these ideas work and why. As you ask yourself questions, go through your class materials (e.g., your textbook, class notes, any materials your teacher has provided, etc.) and look for the answers to your questions.

As you continue to elaborate on the ideas you are learning, make connections between multiple ideas to-be-learned and explain how they work together. A good way to do this is to take two ideas and think about ways they are similar and ways they are different.

Describe how the ideas you are studying apply to your own life experiences or memories. In addition, as you go through your day, take notice of the things happening around you and make connections to the ideas you are learning in class. Doing this will engage an additional process that is highly effective: spacing learning over time. A post about learning how to study using spacing is forthcoming!

So far we have suggested using elaborative interrogation as you study your class materials. At the start, you can definitely use your class materials to help you and fill in gaps as you elaborate. However, ideally, you should work your way up to describing and explaining the ideas you are learning on your own, without your class materials in front of you. In other words, you should practice retrieval of the information! (For a detailed post about how to practice retrieval see Learn How to Study Using... Retrieval Practice.)

That's a lot of information! The way you ask yourself elaborative questions will depend on the topic you are studying. To make this strategy more concrete, there are examples from math, science, and history at the end of this post!
What happens when you practice elaborative interrogation?
Asking yourself a number of why and how questions will encourage you to produce explanations for the ideas you are learning, and to integrate the new material you are learning with the things you already know or have experienced.

Integrating new ideas with what you already know helps you to organize the new ideas, making them easier to bring to mind later on (2, 3) - like when you need to answer exam questions, or need to use the information in a different class or a real-life situation.

Engaging in elaborative interrogation also encourages you to think about relationships between different ideas, and understanding how two ideas are both similar to one another and how they are different from one another can improve your understanding of the material.
What should you do after you use elaborative interrogation?
After using elaborative interrogation, you should double-check your class materials to make sure that you correctly described and explained the ideas. Then, a bit later, keep practicing elaborative interrogation (and integrating the strategy with retrieval practice). The idea is to keep adding new connections and details so that you fully understand the ideas, their connections, and how they are different from one another. You can even try explaining the concepts to a classmate or friend, and see if they can ask you any additional how and why questions!
Specific examples of elaborative interrogation from Math, Science, and History
Here are some examples from a few different subjects you might be studying (math, science, and history). The specific questions you ask, and how you break the ideas down, will depend on what you are studying!
Example from Math
Imagine you are studying calculus. The topic is "derivatives". How do derivatives work? Well, they are the rate of the change. How does that work? You take a look at one point, then you take a look at a prior point, over some interval. And then you take the difference divided by the interval. As that interval approaches zero, you have the instantaneous rate of change. Why does this happen? Because "instantaneous" means that the interval is nothing.
Example from Science (Biology, Neuroscience, Psychology)
Imagine you are studying neural communication, maybe in a biology, neuroscience, or psychology class. How does neural communication work? Well, if we look at one neuron, the dendrites receive messages from many other neurons, and then the messages converge in the soma. If there is enough of a positive charge within the soma, then an action potential will occur, and an electrical signal is sent down the axon. When the signal reaches the terminal buttons, neurotransmitters are released into the synapse where they communicate with the dendrites of the next neuron. Why does this happen? The neurotransmitters are chemicals that allow neurons to communicate with one another. Overall, the pattern of activation among different neurons (which neurons fire, how quickly, what neurotransmitters they release) determines the message in your brain.

Now, imagine that you want to break neural communication down further. You might then ask, how does the axon work? The axon is a long tail-like structure that produces the electrical signal. How does the signal travel? The axon is covered in myelin sheath, a fatty substance that insulates the axon. The myelin sheath works like the rubber around the cord of an electrical appliance, and it serves to make the electricity travel faster. Why have myelin sheath? Because we need our neurons to be able to send signals quickly, since we need to be able to react quickly, make decisions quickly, move quickly, perceive feeling in our skin quickly, etc.

Make sure to compare ideas to learn how they are similar and different. For example, an axon and terminal buttons are both parts of a neuron; however, the axon sends an electrical signal while the terminal buttons release chemicals. Both Schizophrenia and Parkinson's disease are related to the neurotransmitter dopamine, but Schizophrenia is the result of too much dopamine while Parkinson's disease is the result of too little dopamine.

Also, try to make connections to your own memories or experiences, and compare ideas to learn how they are similar and different. We already made the connection from myelin sheath on axons to the rubber on cords to electrical appliances. Here is another example: a family member or close friend who suffers from Schizophrenia disease is suffering from too much dopamine. This means that too much dopamine is being released, by the terminal buttons, into the synapse. A doctor could give them a drug to reduce the dopamine in their brain, called a dopamine antagonist. If too much of this drug is used, the patient might begin developing symptoms similar to Parkinson's disease. How would a dopamine antagonist work? ... continue asking yourself elaborative questions!
Example from History
Imagine you're studying World War II, and specifically the attack on Pearl Harbor. You could ask yourself, how did this attack happen? On December 7, 1941, the Imperial Japanese Navy attacked the United States Naval Base at Pearl Harbor. The attack included Japanese fighter planes, bombers, and torpedo planes. Why did this happen? The Japanese intended to destroy the United States' Pacific Fleet so that it could not interfere with Japanese operations. Here you could also ask another type of question: What was the result of this historic event? Well, Japanese casualties were light, while they damaged eight U.S. Navy battleships. The Arizona was among those that the Japanese sunk, and was not raised from the shallow water. U.S. aircrafts were also destroyed, and 2,403 Americans were killed (1,178 were injured). Why is this event important? The day after the attack, Roosevelt delivered his Infamy Speech, the United States formally declared war on Japan, and Japanese-Americans were then relocated to internment camps. You could then go on: how did the U.S. enter the war? How did the Pearl Harbor attack lead up to the release of the atomic bomb? How did the war end? And so on. There are so many ways to explain the idea and add details!

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Learn how to revise using retrieval

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So, how should you go about practicing retrieval? There are many different ways to implement the general process, and you may be doing so already.

If your teacher provides practice tests, or there are practice questions in your textbook, make sure to do them - but without looking at your book or notes!

If you don't have practice questions (or you've already answered all of your practice questions a few times), you can make your own questions. This process takes a lot of time, but if you create a study group you can each create a few questions and trade. Here's a blog post that takes you through the process of creating questions from a textbook and practicing retrieval: Be Your Own Teacher: How to Study a Textbook.

You can also create flashcards, but make sure that you really use them to practice retrieval (bring to mind what you think is on the other side!) rather than peeking. There are also many apps for this if you prefer to use technology. Do make sure to practice retrieving more than just the simple concept definitions you write on your flashcards, though - try linking concepts, or trying to remember how two concepts are similar/different. Here's a great blog post on more advanced flashcard techniques: Be Your Own Teacher: How to Study with Flashcards.

Even simpler than practice questions and flashcards, you can just grab a piece of paper and write down everything you know on a topic. All you need is pen and paper - so no excuses!!

If you like sketching, you can try to draw everything you know on a topic from memory! It doesn't have to be pretty - it just needs to make sense to you. Here's a step-by-step guide for how to use pictures to help you remember: Be Your Own Teacher: How to Study with Pictures.

While sketching, you can also try to organize your ideas into a concept map, like the one below that summarizes how retrieval practice works. In a concept map, you take the main ideas and link them together with phrases that explain the relationship between the concepts. But, always try to make the concept map from memory first!

What should you do after you practice retrieval?
After practicing retrieval, it is best to then check your book and notes from class to make sure you correctly and completely retrieved the information. This process corrects any misunderstandings, and gives you feedback about what you know and what you don't know. Then, a bit later on, practice retrieving the same information again, and watch it get easier!

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