User Login
Account Creation has now been setup and is ready to go. This took longer than planned. I apologise for the delay on this.
Save Card Feature
Now that the User Login/Account Creation has been set up, next we’ll be setting up the Save Card feature. This is quite self-explanatory: it’s the ability to Save Cards to your decks to then review over time. The whole point of flashcards is to enable Spaced Practice (and Retrieval Practice, simultaneously). Spaced Practice is only possible if you ‘Save Cards’ to a deck of yours, and then review said deck daily.
Optional Subtopics for Academic Study
Streak Counter
Upload Own Sources (Demo Only)
(With the caveat it may not necessarily be better [to use one’s own sources] or even required. See previous Update for more on this)
Deliberate Errors Research
A newly published study by Qiang, Ma, and Li (2025) indicates that correcting deliberate errors leads to better long-term learning than traditional restudy. This is likely due to the fact that this strategy:
creates a ‘cognitive conflict’ that must be resolved (strengthening memory encoding)
forces learners to explain why something is wrong and what makes the correct answer right (deepening understanding)
and introduces desirable difficulty that makes learning feel harder in the moment but produces stronger retention over time
This is essentially leveraging our brain's error-detection and correction mechanisms to differentiate between similar concepts and solidify knowledge
That last part is very important: common methods of study (rereading, highlighting etc) feel great. Students will feel like they are learning. And to be clear, there likely will be some very small degree of learning occurring. It is just not nearly as effective as other methods, such as Retrieval Practice etc. Again, a really useful way to think about this may be if one has ever attempted a diet. It will feel difficult. That is part of it. If learning things (as in, really learning) was easy there’d be no need for School or University.
For more information on this study, consider reading this blog link here
Overall this paper was really cool for me to see. When I first had the idea of Check It there was nothing like it currently anywhere in any educational apps - but why? It makes complete sense to have something like this.
For any parents especially it may be particularly helpful in helping your child study (perhaps with homework etc) when trying to decipher whether your child knows the topic or just knows the card, CheckIt Mode will enable this. If they have been answering their flashcards correctly on the topic of, say, ‘Gravity’, but they failed to spot the error in a card which states “Gravity is the force that pushes objects up to the sky”, this is valuable information that can then be rectified.
I spoke on this in more detail in the previous Update re a potential risk of ‘Overfitted’ knowledge when using flashcards.
That’s everything - this was just a short one.
Thank you for reading!