Study Modes¶

Three surfaces, one scheduler. Every card type works in every mode — basic, bidirectional, type-in, cloze, code cloze, occlusion, and line cards — and each mode asks the same questions of them.

A fence that fans out into several cards is several questions everywhere: a three-group cloze is three reveals and three ratings, a bidirectional pair is two, an occluded diagram is one per mask group.

Sequential Study¶

Classic card-by-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 — from the same button, or in the card browser.

Keyboard Shortcuts¶

Contextual Study¶

Study in the note itself — no modal, no context switching, surrounded by the explanations and examples you wrote.

Two actions appear in the header of any note that has cards, next to the reading/edit toggle:

• Peek mode — hides every card in the note. Reveal them in any order by clicking; nothing is recorded. The equivalent of covering the page with your hand.
• Study this note — hides only the cards that are due or new, and asks them one at a time. After each reveal, a rating bubble appears and must be answered before the next card 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 starting a session.

How Cards Reveal¶

• Cloze cards reveal in place — the blanks fill in and the surrounding sentence stays put, so your eye never leaves the passage.
• Basic and bidirectional cards stack — the answer appears beneath the question, because there the answer doesn't contain the question.
• Line cards hide behind a ░░░░░░ placeholder and reveal in place.
• 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.
• Cards that aren't due render normally during a session — visible as context, not asked, not counted.

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

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 cards
2. Click the icon in the mind map header
3. Nodes whose cards are 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 with a Stop button; a toast confirms when every due card is reviewed, and the map stays open

A node holding a multi-card fence steps through its questions one at a time — the node's content swaps per question — so a three-group cloze on the map asks exactly what it asks in the modal.

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.

Peek on the Map¶

The icon next to the study button enters peek mode: every card node hides, you reveal them in any order by tapping, and nothing is recorded.

Choosing a Mode¶

All three modes use the same FSRS scheduler — a card rated in one mode updates its schedule everywhere. The statistics dashboard can tell you which mode is actually working best for you: Recall by study mode compares them.