Cardstack
Cardstack
Cardstack is a flashcard app built for memorising things properly, dates, definitions, exam material, whatever you need to actually know rather than vaguely recognise. Type your answer, get tested, repeat, until you properly know it.
The broad category, Geography, French, whatever you're studying. Takes a name, nothing else.
A stack lives inside a subject, Capitals of Europe, Basic Phrases, one topic per stack.
A question, an answer. Add a few or a hundred, then pick a study mode and start.
Three study modes for every stack: Absorb to read it, Practice to type it, Test to prove it.
Cards flip automatically. No pressure, just read and take it in.
Type your answers. Three correct in a row masters a card. Typos are forgiven.
Three correct, no typos forgiven. Any mistake resets the card to zero.
Most revision rewards recognition, not recall. You see an answer, think "yes, obviously," and move on having learned almost nothing, until it matters and it's gone. Cardstack is built around active recall instead: actually retrieving something from memory, not just recognising it. Get it wrong and it doesn't get skipped, it goes straight back into the queue. You can't mark yourself correct, the card decides.
Once a stack's mastered, it comes back on a schedule, 3 days, then 7, then 14, then 30, the same repetition that got it into memory in the first place, just spaced further apart each time. That's what actually keeps it there.
