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Org-Flashcards Demo File

Normal Card

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Welcome to the org-fc demo! This demo is implemented as a review session.

If you want to stop the demo at any point, you can do so by pressing the q key or via the M-x org-fc-review-quit command.

What you’re seeing right now is the front side a card of the normal type. Think of it as a question (front) - answer (back) pair.

You can flip the card and reveal the back side by pressing the n key or by using the M-x org-fc-review-flip command.

Note how the current state as displayed in the top left corner of the buffer switches between “Flip” and “Rate” during the review.

Back

This is the back side of the card. It was hidden a moment ago.

In a real review session, you would now rate how well you remembered the card by giving it one of the following ratings:

again

key a or M-x org-fc-review-rate-again

hard

key h or M-x org-fc-review-rate-hard

good

key g or M-x org-fc-review-rate-good

easy

key e or M-x org-fc-review-rate-easy

Give it one of these ratings to continue to the next card.

Another Normal Card

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Cards in this format are great for simple question-answer pairs. Let’s try a more realistic example with this card.

What’s written on the “Back” side of a normal flashcard?

Flip this card to reveal the answer.

Back

The “Back” side of a normal flashcard can contain the answer of a question answer pair.

Instead of having an extra “Back” heading to store the answer, flashcards can also be written in a compact style where the text of the main heading contains the question and the contents of the heading contain the answer.

Rate this card to continue see an example for such a compact card.

Question: What’s the name for this style of card?

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This card uses the compact style.

It can be used e.g. for learning words of a foreign language, where the heading title contains the word and the “body” of the heading contains a definition.

Double Card

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For other kinds of knowledge, we’d like to learn not just one “Front” -> “Back“ direction but also the reverse.

While it looks just like a normal flashcard right now, this card uses the double type.

Flip it to continue.

Back

Here’s the back side!

Now when you rate this card, instead of seeing a new card, you’ll be see this back side again and flipping the card will reveal the front side.

Note how you’re first seeing this side in the “Rate” mode, then in the “Flip” mode.

Often reviewing the same card in a different direction will be much easier because the answer has been spoiled during a previous review.

Following the terminology used by Anki, the two directions are called siblings and setting the variable org-fc-bury-siblings to t will exclude reviews of the same card from the current review session.

Cloze Deletion

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A {{cloze deletion}@0} can have multiple {{holes}@1}. And each hole can have {{hints}{Synonym for suggestion}@2} too.

Cloze Enumeration

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Enumerations are useful for

• {{Learning}@0}
• {{Lists}@1}
• {{of}@2}
• {{items}@3}

AWK Source Example

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# Set up variables for new file
{{BEGINFILE}@0} {
    title = FILENAME;
}

match($0, /#\+TITLE: (.*)/, a) {
    title = a[1];
}

{
    i += 1;
    if (i > 5) {
        # Continue with next file
        {{nextfile}@1};
    }
}

# Print results for file
{{ENDFILE}@2} {
    print FILENAME, title;
}