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Flashcard Insights

RemNote can help you learn by providing background information at the end of each flashcard.

Written by Soren Bjornstad

When knowledge gets broken down into flashcards, it's easy to lose sight of the bigger picture. And if you struggle with a particular flashcard, having more context and background information on that card can help you find a long-lasting way to remember it. To assist, RemNote offers Flashcard Insights written by AI at the end of each flashcard.

The Flashcard Insights for a card usually consist of two sections selected to be most relevant to the particular card you are seeing. In this example, the Why True and Broader Context sections are showing:

The back of a Probiotics flashcard, with the two insight sections shown between the answer and the row of grading buttons, and a 'Learn More' AI Chat button below them.

Here we see a Historical Timeline of surrounding events:

A Stamen Grigorov card whose Historical Timeline lists dated events from 1861 to 1988, with the 1905 discovery the card asks about highlighted in the middle of the sequence.

Here we see some Near Misses for a concept that might get mixed up with the correct answer or the ideas involved in the correct answer:

A TypeScript card about optional types, with the Near Misses section listing 'undefined', 'null' and 'any' as concepts that are easily confused with the answer.

Note: Flashcard Insights are not displayed on Super-Private Bullets, since Super-Private bullets are never sent to our AI partners, and the Insights can't be written without doing this.

Flashcard Insights and AI credits

Like all AI features, Flashcard Insights consumes AI credits. Most insights sections use small models and consume relatively few credits when displayed, but a couple (such as Historical Timeline) have to use larger ones to work well.

Flashcard Insights are generated only once for each card, the first time you see it (unless you edit the card, in which case they'll be generated again to match the new content). Consequently, practicing the card again will not cost any AI credits. Since the AI may need a few seconds to write the Insights, generation begins while you're looking at the front side of the card so that the content is available by the time you flip it over.

If you'd prefer to conserve your AI credits for other AI features, you can turn off Flashcard Insights, or display them only when you forget a card, by clicking the X button in the upper-right corner of the Insights.

The 'Flashcard Insights Settings' menu that opens from the X button, offering 'Disable on All Cards', 'Show for Forgotten Cards Only' and 'Show for All Cards'.

You can later re-enable them or adjust how many insights you'd like to get generated in Settings > AI:

The AI page in Settings, with the Flashcard Insights options and the Insight Detail Level options highlighted.
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