# Flashnerd Docs

> Learn to create flashcards, study with spaced repetition, import your decks, and make the most of Flashnerd.

## Guides

- [Welcome to Flashnerd](https://docs.flashnerd.com/guide/getting-started/introduction.md): Discover Flashnerd's approach to personal learning and find guides for creating, importing, generating, and studying cards.
- [Getting started](https://docs.flashnerd.com/guide/getting-started/getting-started.md): Create your first deck, choose the Basic Text preset, add a question and answer, and complete a Flashcard study session.
- [Organize decks and folders](https://docs.flashnerd.com/guide/library/decks-and-folders.md): Create, rename, move, find, and sort decks and folders, and understand the consequences of deleting library content.
- [Organize cards with tags](https://docs.flashnerd.com/guide/library/tags.md): Add and manage card tags, group material across decks, and choose whether tags appear during practice.
- [Create and edit cards](https://docs.flashnerd.com/guide/cards/create-and-edit.md): Add cards manually, edit field content, preview both faces and notes, manage tags, and understand what deleting a card removes.
- [Templates and presets](https://docs.flashnerd.com/guide/cards/templates.md): Choose and customize deck templates, order fields, reuse presets, and understand how template changes affect existing cards.
- [Field settings and card sides](https://docs.flashnerd.com/guide/cards/field-settings.md): Choose Front, Back, Both, or Note placement and customize field settings for one card without changing the deck template.
- [Start spaced repetition](https://docs.flashnerd.com/guide/srs/getting-started.md): Learn how spaced repetition works, create an SRS set, link your decks, and begin scheduled reviews with Flashnerd.
- [Practice with Flashcard mode](https://docs.flashnerd.com/guide/practice/flashcard.md): Start a Flashcard session, grade recalled answers, adjust shuffle and card direction, use Auto Advance, and correct mistakes.
- [Practice with Matching mode](https://docs.flashnerd.com/guide/practice/matching.md): Choose two card fields and a board size for Matching mode, pair prompts with answers, and prepare suitable matching cards.
- [Review a set or folder](https://docs.flashnerd.com/guide/srs/reviewing.md): Review an SRS set or folder, choose recall grades, undo answers, manage cards, and understand Auto Advance and session results.
- [Manage sets and linked decks](https://docs.flashnerd.com/guide/srs/manage-sets.md): Organize SRS sets and folders, transfer linked decks with their progress, and understand unlinking and deletion.
- [Card states, suspension, and Struggle](https://docs.flashnerd.com/guide/srs/card-status.md): Understand New, Learn, Review, and Relearn states, the difference between suspended and disabled cards, and Struggle recovery.
- [Change SRS settings and reuse presets](https://docs.flashnerd.com/guide/srs/settings-and-presets.md): Change an SRS set’s limits, scheduling, and review behavior, then create or apply reusable settings presets.
- [Review settings](https://docs.flashnerd.com/guide/srs/review-settings.md): Set review-ahead time and the start of your study day, understand how changes save, and distinguish local study days from UTC mission resets.
- [View, export, or reset review history](https://docs.flashnerd.com/guide/srs/history.md): Inspect a card’s SRS history, export it as CSV, and understand what resetting review history does to its schedule and progress.
- [Generate cards with AI](https://docs.flashnerd.com/guide/ai/generate-cards.md): Generate draft flashcards from prompts and supported sources, review the results, and explicitly save them to an existing deck.
- [Review and refine generated cards](https://docs.flashnerd.com/guide/ai/review-and-refine.md): Edit AI draft cards, refine results with follow-up prompts, choose a version, and save the cards you want to keep.
- [Reuse AI instruction presets](https://docs.flashnerd.com/guide/ai/instruction-presets.md): Create, select, edit, and back up reusable AI instructions for the language, question style, and detail you want in generated cards.
- [AI sources, limits, and allowance](https://docs.flashnerd.com/guide/ai/limits-and-sources.md): Check supported AI attachments, input limits, weekly AI usage, and recovery steps when a request fails or reaches its allowance.
- [Import cards from CSV](https://docs.flashnerd.com/guide/import-export/csv.md): Prepare a CSV, map its columns to an existing deck template, attach images or audio, and check the imported cards.
- [Import from Anki](https://docs.flashnerd.com/guide/import-export/anki.md): Import Anki APKG or COLPKG files into Flashnerd and understand conversion warnings, template limitations, media, and review progress.
- [Import Flashnerd files](https://docs.flashnerd.com/guide/import-export/flashnerd.md): Import Flashnerd archives or cards into an existing deck, preview the result, and choose between making copies and overriding data.
- [Back up and restore your collection](https://docs.flashnerd.com/guide/import-export/backups.md): Export a Flashnerd collection backup with selected content, progress, and settings, then restore it or move it to another device.
- [Export and share decks](https://docs.flashnerd.com/guide/import-export/sharing.md): Choose the right deck, folder, SRS, or collection export and share a file with the content and progress you intend to include.
- [Find cards with Search](https://docs.flashnerd.com/guide/search/find-cards.md): Find local cards using phrases and deck, tag, field, side, date, and SRS filters, and troubleshoot missing results.
- [Save and reuse search presets](https://docs.flashnerd.com/guide/search/presets.md): Save and apply Advanced Search filter presets, manage them in Settings, and understand which search choices a preset stores.
- [Understand your study statistics](https://docs.flashnerd.com/guide/statistics/overview.md): Read activity, accuracy, and streak statistics, choose an SRS study scope, and customize your statistics dashboard.
- [SRS workload and card health](https://docs.flashnerd.com/guide/statistics/srs-dashboard.md): Interpret SRS workload, card states, future reviews, answer grades, stability, difficulty, and review-speed charts.
- [Recall, retention, and knowledge estimates](https://docs.flashnerd.com/guide/statistics/recall-and-knowledge.md): Distinguish recorded retention from estimated recall, understand knowledge and time charts, and interpret changes in review history.
- [Sign in and link accounts](https://docs.flashnerd.com/guide/accounts/sign-in.md): Sign in to Flashnerd with Google or Apple, check your account, and link or unlink supported sign-in methods.
- [Local data and offline use](https://docs.flashnerd.com/guide/accounts/offline-and-data.md): Prepare to study offline, check which actions need a connection, and understand account-specific local storage.
- [Review credits, missions, and XP](https://docs.flashnerd.com/guide/accounts/credits-and-missions.md): Understand review credits, Free and Pro study, mission rewards, XP, UTC resets, and how to resolve credit discrepancies.
- [Sign out or delete your account](https://docs.flashnerd.com/guide/accounts/sign-out-and-delete.md): Learn what happens to your local study data when you log out, switch accounts, or permanently delete a Flashnerd account.
- [Presets](https://docs.flashnerd.com/guide/settings/preferences.md): Reuse search filters, deck templates, SRS settings, and AI instructions with presets.

## Reference

- [Reference](https://docs.flashnerd.com/reference/index.md): Find detailed references for Flashnerd’s 11 card field types, SRS limits and scheduling, FSRS parameters, the .flashnerd file format, and terminology.
- [Choose a field type](https://docs.flashnerd.com/reference/fields/index.md): Compare all 11 Flashnerd field types and choose the content, placement, and settings that suit your cards.
- [Text](https://docs.flashnerd.com/reference/fields/text.md): Use Text fields for plain questions, answers, and notes, assign each field to a card side, and preview the result.
- [Rich Text](https://docs.flashnerd.com/reference/fields/rich-text.md): Format card explanations and notes with the Rich Text toolbar, including emphasis, lists, colors, and text size.
- [Image](https://docs.flashnerd.com/reference/fields/image.md): Add photos or image files to cards, choose their side, and understand image formats, permissions, and replacement controls.
- [Cloze Deletion](https://docs.flashnerd.com/reference/fields/cloze.md): Mark selected words or phrases as cloze deletions, edit hidden text, and preview the masked question and revealed answer.
- [TTS (Text-to-Speech)](https://docs.flashnerd.com/reference/fields/tts.md): Make TTS fields speak referenced card content or separate text, choose a language, and configure automatic playback.
- [Audio Recording](https://docs.flashnerd.com/reference/fields/audio.md): Record or import audio for a card, check microphone access and file limits, and choose when the saved recording plays.
- [Image Occlusion](https://docs.flashnerd.com/reference/fields/image-occlusion.md): Create image occlusion cards by placing and resizing masks over labels or regions, then preview the hidden and revealed image.
- [Chinese](https://docs.flashnerd.com/reference/fields/chinese.md): Create Chinese fields with pinyin, choose Traditional or Simplified pronunciation settings, and control or correct annotations.
- [Japanese](https://docs.flashnerd.com/reference/fields/japanese.md): Configure Japanese fields with furigana, romaji, and pitch accent, control annotation visibility, and correct generated readings.
- [Code](https://docs.flashnerd.com/reference/fields/code.md): Add syntax-highlighted code to cards and configure language, line numbers, wrapping, and display settings without executing code.
- [TeX](https://docs.flashnerd.com/reference/fields/tex.md): Write mathematical expressions in TeX fields, adjust their display, and troubleshoot formulas that do not render.
- [Daily limits and review availability](https://docs.flashnerd.com/reference/srs/daily-limits.md): Understand daily review, new-card, and suspended-card quotas, weekday schedules, review-ahead time, and study-day boundaries.
- [Scheduling, retention, and learning steps](https://docs.flashnerd.com/reference/srs/scheduling.md): Configure desired retention, maximum intervals, learning and relearning steps, and understand how they affect review workload.
- [Display order and review behavior](https://docs.flashnerd.com/reference/srs/review-controls.md): Configure SRS card priorities, new-card selection, state and tag display, Struggle thresholds, answer buttons, and Auto Advance.
- [FSRS parameters](https://docs.flashnerd.com/reference/srs/parameters.md): Understand Flashnerd’s 21 FSRS parameters, their accepted ranges, how to enter values, and when parameter changes take effect.
- [Flashnerd file format](https://docs.flashnerd.com/reference/flashnerd-format/index.md): Look up the Flashnerd archive structure, record definitions, field values, dependencies, and validation rules for users and AI tools authoring files.
- [Package rules and dependencies](https://docs.flashnerd.com/reference/flashnerd-format/package.md): Understand Flashnerd ZIP paths, JSONL records, identifiers, dependencies, dates, import limits, and optional export manifests.
- [Deck records](https://docs.flashnerd.com/reference/flashnerd-format/decks.md): Define Flashnerd deck records, ordered card fields, deck and study settings, and AI instruction-preset references.
- [Card records](https://docs.flashnerd.com/reference/flashnerd-format/cards.md): Write Flashnerd card records with exact field IDs, typed values, tags, optional identities, and template-setting overrides.
- [Field definitions, values, and settings](https://docs.flashnerd.com/reference/flashnerd-format/fields.md): Use all 11 Flashnerd field types with exact JSON values, settings, defaults, cloze ranges, image masks, and inheritance rules.
- [Package images and audio](https://docs.flashnerd.com/reference/flashnerd-format/media.md): Package image and audio files inside .flashnerd archives, reference them by exact paths, and handle blank or missing media.
- [Folder and tag records](https://docs.flashnerd.com/reference/flashnerd-format/folders-and-tags.md): Organize .flashnerd decks with review-folder records and label cards with tags, including IDs, nesting, and reference rules.
- [Cards-only files for an existing deck](https://docs.flashnerd.com/reference/flashnerd-format/cards-only.md): Generate cards for an existing deck using its Flashnerd starter template, preserve field IDs, package cards-only JSONL, and handle copies or updates.
- [SRS folders, sets, and settings](https://docs.flashnerd.com/reference/flashnerd-format/srs.md): Define SRS folders, deck memberships, and every supported scheduling setting in a Flashnerd archive.
- [Presets in Flashnerd files](https://docs.flashnerd.com/reference/flashnerd-format/presets.md): Write card-template, SRS, search, and AI instruction presets with their required fields, defaults, and companion records.
- [User preferences](https://docs.flashnerd.com/reference/flashnerd-format/preferences.md): Transfer the five supported app preferences in preferences/user.json, including review-day timing and omission behavior.
- [Study progress and review history](https://docs.flashnerd.com/reference/flashnerd-format/progress-and-history.md): Preserve SRS schedule snapshots and review events in Flashnerd backups, with due dates, dependencies, and app compatibility rules.
- [Allowed enum values](https://docs.flashnerd.com/reference/flashnerd-format/enums.md): Look up every supported Flashnerd file enum, including field types, card sides, SRS states, ratings, and study settings.
- [Validate a file and download examples](https://docs.flashnerd.com/reference/flashnerd-format/validation.md): Download working Flashnerd examples and JSON schemas, check generated packages, and diagnose JSONL, reference, field, media, and import errors.

## Help

- [Troubleshooting](https://docs.flashnerd.com/help/troubleshooting.md): Find help for missing data, due cards, templates and field settings, import and media problems, AI failures, and unexpected statistics.
- [Flashnerd glossary](https://docs.flashnerd.com/help/glossary.md): Understand cards, fields, templates, decks, tags, presets, sets, and folders, then look up study, statistics, account, AI, and data terms.
- [Contact support](https://docs.flashnerd.com/help/contact.md): Contact Flashnerd support and include useful reproduction steps, device details, error messages, and screenshots.