The basics

NeuroCards organises your study material and decides which cards to show each day. This page explains the concepts used throughout the app and documentation.

In a nutshell

• Library — all of your folders, decks, and cards.
• Folder — an optional, nestable collection of folders and decks.
• Deck — a set of cards for one subject or topic.
• Card — a prompt on the front and an answer on the back.
• Study session — a focused review of one deck or folder.
• Mixed review — due cards gathered from across your library.
• Rating — your assessment of how well you recalled an answer.
• Due date — the next time a previously seen card should be reviewed.
• Study pace — the daily limits and scheduling settings applied to your queue.

The main pages

Home

Home is your daily starting point. It shows how many reviews are due, how many new cards remain for the day, recent decks, recent activity, and today’s recall rate.

Decks shown on Home start a focused study session when selected.

Library

Library is where you create and manage study material. It provides:

• Card search across your decks.
• Manual deck and folder creation.
• AI deck generation when it is available for your account.
• Edit mode for selecting, moving, reordering, renaming, and deleting items.

Selecting a deck in Library opens its management page rather than immediately starting a review.

Review

Review creates a mixed queue from eligible cards across your library. Use a deck or folder’s Study now action when you want to restrict the session to that topic instead.

Stats

Stats summarises your longer-term activity. It includes review totals, card stages, rating patterns, difficult cards, a due forecast, and recall-rate trends.

Folders, decks, and cards

Folders

Folders help mirror the way you already organise schoolwork. For example:

Computer Science
├── Paper 1
│   ├── Data representation
│   └── Computer systems
└── Paper 2
    └── Algorithms

Folders may contain decks and other folders. Studying a folder includes cards from its full subtree, so selecting Study now on Computer Science can cover every deck below it.

Decks

A deck groups related cards and tracks its card count, due count, and learning progress. Its page is also where you:

• Add and edit cards.
• Start a focused study session.
• Generate or import cards.
• Export the deck.
• Rename, move, or delete the deck.

Cards

Every card has a front and back. Card text supports Markdown and LaTeX-style maths: $...$ for inline maths and $$...$$ for display maths.

A strong card normally tests one idea. If an answer contains several independent facts, split it into multiple cards so each failure gives NeuroCards useful scheduling information.

Card states and the daily queue

NeuroCards separates cards into three visible states:

Previously seen cards enter the queue when they are due. New cards use a separate daily allowance, so adding a large deck does not introduce every card at once.

At the end of a completed queue, NeuroCards may offer:

• Review ahead — study previously seen cards before their due date. Early reviews earn less interval growth.
• More new cards — add another batch of unseen cards to the session.

Ratings and scheduling

After revealing an answer, rate the quality of your recall:

Rate the recall you actually had, not the rating you hope will produce a convenient schedule. Consistent ratings give the scheduler better evidence about each card.

Study pace and settings

Your study pace controls how much new material enters the queue and the maximum number of daily reviews. The built-in choices are:

Settings also let you customise learning steps, interval behaviour, appearance, card font, and whether the sidebar starts open. Changes to scheduling settings are saved to your account and apply across devices.

Offline use and syncing

NeuroCards keeps snapshots of previously loaded data on your device. If the connection drops during a review, ratings are kept locally and sent when the app reconnects.

Watch the connection chip in the top-right corner. It reports offline, retrying, and synced states. Creating or changing library content, importing cards, and generating decks still require a connection.

What next?

• Follow Quick start to complete the full first-study workflow.
• Use the Guides for AI generation, imports, organisation, installation, and offline study.
• Keep the Keyboard shortcuts open during a review.