Flashcards that live in your pages.
Write a card as one line of text, next to what you are learning. Vellum finds the cards, schedules them with FSRS, and brings each back just before you would forget it.
Cards are plain text
A card is a line in any page, so pages stay readable in any Markdown editor and cards survive export. Spaces around :: matter: std::vector is not a card.
Capital of France :: Paris
- Hola ::: Hello
The {{c1::mitochondria}} makes {{c2::ATP}}.
Name the three
states of matter
?
Solid, liquid
and gasThe full syntax is in the docs.
Review a few minutes a day
- FSRS-5 schedules every card from your answers (Again, Hard, Good, Easy), aiming for the retention you choose (90% by default).
- Decks are a page, a notebook, a tag or everything; daily limits (20 new cards, 200 reviews by default) keep sessions short.
- Keyboard and touch: Space shows the answer, 1–4 rate it; on a phone, swipe left for Again and right for Good.
- No streaks or scores. Progress shows what you remember and what is coming.
Cards from your reading
The optional on-device assistant drafts cards from a page, a selection, or a PDF, EPUB, Word file or slides, page by page. You edit, keep or reject each draft; kept cards link back to the passage or page they came from. Check them: the local model is small.
Sync and Anki
Reviews sync between your devices with encrypted sync, merged so reviews on two devices never conflict. Cards come in from and go out to Anki as text files (Basic, reversed and Cloze note types); .apkg packages with media and review history are not supported yet.
Make and review your first flashcards
Write a card
In any page, type a question, two colons with spaces around them, and the answer: Capital of France :: Paris.
Open Study
Choose Study in the menu, or “Study this page’s flashcards” in the command palette.
Answer honestly
Think of the answer, press Space to see it, then rate how well you remembered it.
Come back tomorrow
Each card returns when it is due; a few minutes a day is enough.
In the app
- Flashcards in pages Write Question :: Answer in any page to make a card.
- Review what’s due A few minutes a day; cards return just before you’d forget.
- Cards from your reading The assistant drafts cards from pages, PDFs and slides; you choose.
- Progress, no pressure See what you remember and what’s coming; no streaks.
- Anki cards in and out Bring cards from Anki, or take yours there.