Organizing the library

The library holds every deck, and a deck holds its cards. This page covers keeping both tidy.

Decks and folders

The New button creates a deck or a folder; folders nest, and drag-and-drop moves decks between them. Prefer a few broad decks organized by folder over many tiny ones: the scheduler works per card, so slicing a subject into twenty decks adds bookkeeping without adding control, and tags and filters do the fine-grained slicing better.

A deck's own menu handles rename, move to a folder, its review settings, export, suspending every card at once, and deletion. Card types sits on the same menu, but the manager it opens belongs to the whole collection rather than the one deck you opened it from; it is covered in Writing cards.

Inside a deck

The deck view is a table of cards with search, state filters (Due, New, Learning, Suspended, Flagged), and tag filters. Select several cards and a bar appears for bulk actions: move them to another deck, tag them, suspend, flag, or delete. This table only ever shows the open deck; to search or edit cards across every deck at once, use Browse cards at the top of the library.

Suspend and flag

Suspending a card removes it from every queue without deleting it. Suspended cards stay visible in the deck, ready to be woken; it is the right tool for material that is out of scope this term but too good to throw away.

Flagging is a neutral marker that means whatever you want it to mean: "check this fact", "rewrite later", "ask the professor". Flagged cards get their own filter, and you can flag a card mid-session without breaking stride.

Related

• Writing cards covers card types in depth, including the manager opened from the deck menu.
• Browsing and search covers the collection-wide card browser.