Organizing the library

The library is the front door of the flashcards module: every deck, foldered and sortable, with a banner totalling what is due today and roughly how long it will take. This page covers keeping it tidy at both levels, decks in the library and cards inside a deck.

Decks and folders

The New button creates a deck or a folder; folders nest, and drag-and-drop moves decks between them. Each deck row shows its New, Learn, and Due counts plus retention, so the library doubles as a status board. Sort by due count, name, retention, or card count, and filter by name when the list grows.

Open a deck and its menu handles the rest: rename, move to a folder, its review settings, export, suspending every card at once, and deletion.

Inside a deck

The deck view is a table of cards with search, state filters (Due, New, Learning, Suspended, Flagged), and tag filters. Select several cards and a bar appears for bulk actions: move them to another deck, tag them, suspend, flag, or delete.

Suspend and flag

Suspending a card removes it from every queue without deleting it. Suspended cards stay visible in the deck, dimmed, ready to be woken. It is the right tool for material that is out of scope this term but too good to throw away.

Flagging is a neutral marker that means whatever you want it to mean: "check this fact", "rewrite later", "ask the professor". Flagged cards get their own filter, and you can flag a card mid-session without breaking stride.

A structural suggestion

Prefer a few broad decks organized by folder over many tiny decks. The scheduler works per card, so slicing a subject into twenty decks adds bookkeeping without adding control; tags and filters do the fine-grained slicing better.