Cards#

Cards are what you interact with during daily study and review. A deck contains many cards; over time, reviewing them builds retention within that topic.

Each card belongs to exactly one fact in the deck. The fact supplies the content; the card decides which entries appear on the front versus the back and tracks your review schedule (due date, last review, hidden state, and so on).

Front and back#

Cards follow the familiar flashcard model: a front (prompt or question) and a back (answer or explanation). You try to recall the front before revealing the back — active recall that supports long-term memory.

Which entries land on each side is defined by the card’s layout (template). By default, the first entry is the front and all other entries are the back. The same fact can have sibling cards with different layouts (for example a reversed direction) when multiple templates exist for that content.

Content types#

Front and back can show text and, when your fact entries include them, images, audio, or video. That supports language learning, terminology, visual recognition, pronunciation, and listening practice — not only plain Q&A text.

Media comes from the fact’s entries, not from separate card files.

Relation to facts#

You usually add facts first; Rete creates cards from them. If a fact’s first entry is hello and its second is 你好, the default card is front hello, back 你好 (deck field names may appear as labels when you study).

You do not need to hand-build every card. One fact maps to one default card in normal use; additional layouts from the same fact are part of the same content model when available.

Studying#

During study, Rete selects the most urgent due card in the deck (optionally filtered by tag). You see the front, tap Show Answer, then rate difficulty on a Hard ↔ Easy slider. That rating sets the next interval for the card — harder recall brings it back sooner; easier recall lengthens the gap. See Start studying.

Hide and delete#

• Hide card — takes that card out of the study queue without removing the fact or other sibling cards.
• Delete card — removes that card; the fact and any other cards for the same fact can remain.

Both live on the card ⋯ menu while studying. Edit Fact is there too. Full list: Menus and actions.

Summary#

Cards are the study surface in Rete: front/back layouts built from fact entries, with scheduling for spaced repetition. Organize content as facts, let the system generate cards, review what is due, and hide or delete individual cards when you need to.