By default, RemNote doesn't check your answers for you when you're practicing flashcards – you simply think about the correct answer, flip the card over, and rate yourself. For most types of flashcards, this is fast and convenient. But for some types of flashcards, this may strain your short-term memory or make it hard to honestly evaluate how you did – for instance, on foreign-language flashcards where you want to check your spelling, snippets of punctuation-heavy computer code, or complicated mathematical formulas.
For these situations, RemNote offers a type answer option, which presents a text box on the front side of the card which you can type into. When you press Enter or click the Answer button, your answer will be compared to the actual answer on the back side of the card, and the Forgot or Recalled with effort option will be selected, depending on whether your answer matched or not, so you can simply press Enter to proceed. (You can still choose a different answer button if you prefer.)
Setting up Type Answer
There are two ways to enable Type in Answer on a card.
From the flashcard queue
The easiest way to enable Type in Answer is directly from the flashcard queue. While practicing, click the ... menu on a card and select Type in Answer.
RemNote will ask you to choose the scope:
For only this card - enables Type in Answer for this individual card only.
For "name of your document" - enables it for every card generated by Rems in the same document.
For all cards - enables it for every card across your entire knowledge base.
From the editor
You can also enable typing in the answer for selected flashcards by applying the Type in Answer power-up (/tia) to a Rem. Any flashcards generated by that Rem or any of its descendants will have a type-answer text box on them.
Note: Type-answer text boxes won't appear in the flashcard preview (when clicking the arrow next to a card). You'll only see them when practicing in the flashcard queue.
Typing in math
For LaTeX equations, you can type your answer as LaTeX source and it will be compared to the source of the equation (but the equation will still be displayed on the card in rendered form).
Configuring How Answers Are Matched
By default, RemNote uses AI to grade your typed answers, but you can change this in Settings > Queue > Fuzzily Match Typed Answers. There are three options:
AI Grade Answer sends your answer and the correct answer to an AI, which judges how close the meaning is, regardless of exact wording.
For example, if the answer is "the process by which plants convert sunlight into glucose" and you type "plants use light to make sugar", the AI can recognise this as correct. This is ideal for definition-style or open-ended cards where you want to express ideas in your own words.
AI grading consumes AI credits.
Fuzzy Matching accepts answers that are close to the correct one, tolerating minor typos and small spelling differences.
For example, if the answer is "photosynthesis" and you type "photosinthesis", RemNote will still count it as correct. This is a good option for most vocabulary and fact-based cards.
Require Exact Match marks your answer correct only if every character matches the back of the card exactly.
This is useful when precision is critical - for example, a card testing a chemical formula like
C₆H₁₂O₆, or a specific keyboard shortcut where getting a single character wrong is genuinely a mistake.
Note: This setting applies globally to all Type in Answer cards in your knowledge base.
Applying type-in-answer to tables
Tables are just Rems, so type-in-answer works the same way in tables. Figuring out how to apply the power-up might be a bit of a challenge though!
If the rows in your table are Rems that you can see in other hierarchies in your knowledge base, you'll want to apply the type-in-answer power-up to a parent of those Rems.
If you added the Rems by typing directly in the table, they are stored underneath the tag Rem itself. So in this case, you'll want to click on the tag to go to its Rem, click in the document title, and add /tia there.
You can also choose exactly which columns in your tables (both Simple and Advanced) will support type-in-answer.
To set this up, first enable flashcards for the column you want. Then, open the “Configure Cards” menu and turn on the “Type in Answer” setting for that column:
