Study Modes¶

Sequential Study¶

Classic Anki-style card review in a modal dialog.

1. Open the Dashboard and click a deck (or "Study all")
2. The front of the card appears
3. Click Show Answer (or press Space) to reveal the back
4. Rate your recall: Again (1), Hard (2), Good (3), Easy (4)
5. The next card appears

A progress bar at the top tracks remaining cards. Optionally, turn on Settings > Osmosis > Show deck breadcrumb in study modal to see which deck the card on screen belongs to.

Session Actions¶

Three icon buttons sit in the modal's top-left corner, beside the close button:

Undo is multi-level: press it repeatedly to walk back through the session. It reverts excludes and ratings alike — undoing a rating restores the card's previous FSRS schedule, so a misclick costs you nothing.

Exclude works differently depending on the card. Fence cards get exclude: true written into their fence; line cards get disabled: true in the note's osmosis-schedule. Either way the history is kept and the card can be brought back later.

Keyboard Shortcuts¶

Contextual Study¶

Study cards inline while reading your notes — no modal, no context switching. Reading view stays a normal reading surface by default: nothing is hidden until you ask for it.

Fence Cards¶

1. Open a note with cards in reading view
2. osmosis fences appear as interactive cards with their answers hidden
3. Click a card to reveal the answer — a casual peek, nothing recorded
4. Click Start studying to activate FSRS rating; after each reveal, rate with Again / Hard / Good / Easy

Fence-card hiding activates automatically when you open a note with cards. This is configurable in settings.

Once you rate a card, its answer stays visible for the rest of the session — you're reading the note, not drilling, so the text shouldn't vanish behind you. Each card also carries an exclude toggle, and Ctrl+Z undoes ratings and excludes here just as it does in the sequential modal.

For cloze cards, revealing swaps the front in place rather than stacking the answer beneath it: the surrounding sentence stays put and only the blanks fill in. Basic front/back cards keep the stacked layout.

Line Cards: Peek & Study¶

On notes with line cards, two extra actions appear in the reading-view header, next to the reading/edit toggle:

• Peek ( icon) — hides every line-card line behind a ░░░░░░ placeholder. Click any placeholder to reveal it, in any order. Nothing is recorded — toggle off to return to normal reading.
• Study ( icon) — hides only lines whose card is due or new (scheduling decides, like spatial mode). Reveal proceeds top-down, one line at a time; after each reveal a rating bubble appears below the line and must be answered before the next line unlocks. A floating pill tracks progress ("4/9 rated") with a Stop button, and a toast confirms completion. If nothing is due, the button tells you instead of entering study.

Multi-line blocks hide as one unit — a code block, table, or callout hides whole, including a list nested inside a callout, matching what the mind map does.

Spatial Study¶

Study on the mind map itself. Concepts stay in their spatial context, reinforcing structural relationships.

1. Open a mind map of a note with line cards
2. Click the icon in the mind map header
3. Nodes whose card is due or new hide behind ? placeholders — the rest of the map stays fully visible, because seeing how information fits together is the point
4. Tap a hidden node to reveal it
5. Rate with the bubble that appears below the node — Again (1), Hard (2), Good (3), Easy (4)
6. A floating pill tracks progress ("4/9 due reviewed") with a Stop button; a toast confirms when every due card is reviewed, and the map stays open

Spatial study is especially powerful for topics where understanding the relationships between concepts matters as much as memorizing individual facts. The physical position of nodes on the map creates spatial memory associations that reinforce recall.

Transcluded Content¶

Embedded notes (![[note]]) are first-class citizens in spatial study and peek: if the embedded note has line cards, its nodes hide and reveal on the host map just like local ones, and ratings are written to the embedded note's own osmosis-schedule — the schedule always lives with the note that owns the line. A card studied on a host map and in its home note is the same card, so scheduling stays consistent everywhere.

• Embedded notes without flashcards (no osmosis-cards opt-in, or no generated block IDs) simply stay visible as context.
• A note whose line cards are opted out of decks is still studiable in place — opt-out only affects decks and sequential study.
• Embedding the same note twice puts both copies on one card: revealing one reveals the other, and it is rated (and counted) once.

Contextual (reading-view) study deliberately leaves ![[embeds]] alone — study an embedded note's lines in its own reading view or on a map that includes it.

Peek on the Map¶

The icon next to the study button enters peek mode: every line-card node hides, you reveal them in any order by tapping, and nothing is recorded — the map equivalent of covering the page with your hand.

Choosing a Mode¶

All three modes use the same FSRS scheduler — a card rated in one mode updates its schedule everywhere.