Decks#

Decks are one of the fundamental units used to organize learning content in Rete. A deck is a learning container for a specific topic, domain, or goal. It holds your facts (the content) and cards (what you review), together with settings that control structure and pace.

In most cases, each deck should focus on a single area of knowledge — vocabulary for a language, key concepts from a subject, or a set of professional terms. Grouping related content makes materials easier to manage and builds a clearer knowledge system over time.

Fields#

When you create or edit a deck, you define fields: the column names for that deck (for example English, 中文, Example Sentence, or Note). Fields describe what each column means and how labels appear when you edit facts and review cards.

Fields do not hold study material — only names and order. Renaming or reordering fields changes the deck’s schema; fact entries still line up by position (entry 0 is always the first column, entry 1 the second, and so on).

In the app, a deck starts with two columns and keeps at least two. Choose names that match how you think about the topic so facts and cards stay easy to manage later.

New cards per day#

When you create a deck, you also set how many new cards to introduce each day (shown as cards per day in the app; stored as rate). This controls how quickly brand-new cards enter your study queue — not how many total reviews you do per day. Allowed values are 1–1000 (the app often defaults around 30).

• A higher value introduces new material faster.
• A lower value keeps a steadier, gentler pace.

Rete spaces new cards evenly across the day. For example, 20 new cards per day means roughly one new card every 72 minutes; 10 means about one every 144 minutes.

Decks you own vs imports#

On a deck you created, you can change name, fields, rate, tags, and facts freely, and you can publish it so others find it in Discover.

On a deck you imported, the published name and fields follow the snapshot. You can still change new cards per day, add your own tags, study, hide or delete cards, and sync when the author publishes updates. See Import an existing deck and Menus and actions.

Summary#

A deck groups one topic’s facts and cards, defines column fields, and sets your daily new-card pace. Clear decks and field layouts make adding facts, generating cards, and reviewing more predictable.