Study modes

The Study button on a deck is a split button: the main half starts a scheduled Review, and the menu behind it holds two practice modes that deliberately leave your schedule alone. Knowing which mode records what keeps practice from polluting the data your scheduler learns from.

Review

Review is the real thing: the scheduler builds a queue of cards that are due, you grade each one, and every grade updates that card's future. Progress saves as you go, so leaving mid-session loses nothing; the rest of the queue simply waits.

If nothing is due, Review says so instead of inventing work. That is the schedule doing its job, not the app being lazy.

Cram

Cram runs through a deck's cards (due ones, or all of them) without touching scheduling at all. It is for the night before an exam, or for warming up a deck you have been away from, when you want repetitions without rewriting the scheduler's picture of your memory.

Test

Test is typed practice: the front appears with an answer box, you type what you recall, reveal, and see your answer next to the correct one. You grade yourself Missed, Close, or Got it, with Close counting half. At the end you get a score, how it compares to your last attempt, your best, and a small trend of recent tests.

Typing is slower than flipping, and that is the point: it removes the flicker of "I would have known that" that self-graded flipping allows.

Keyboard shortcuts

On macOS, read Ctrl as Cmd.

In Review	Does
Space	Reveal the answer, or grade Good
1 to 4	Again, Hard, Good, Easy
E	Edit the current card
Ctrl+Z	Undo the last grade
Escape	Leave the session

In Test	Does
Enter	Reveal, then Got it
1 / 2 / 3	Missed, Close, Got it

What counts where

All three modes count toward your overall study activity (cards seen, minutes studied). Only Review ever changes scheduling and retention. Cram and Test are labeled that way in the session itself, so you always know which kind of session you are in.