How to Make Flashcards
Designing flashcards that actually drive retention — one concept per card, image cues, and spaced repetition.
What you'll learn
- One-concept-per-card rule
- Image-occlusion for anatomy and diagrams
- Why your own cards beat premade decks
- Spaced repetition cadence
The mistake most students make
Cards that pack 5 facts into one card feel efficient but produce shallow recall. The first fact gets remembered; the rest become noise.
How Fennie helps
Fennie generates one-concept flashcards from your notes automatically — clean, image-aware, and spaced.
Step by step
- 01One concept per card — if you need 'and', split it
- 02Question on front, answer on back (no recognition shortcuts)
- 03Include an image when concept is visual
- 04Use Anki or Fennie's spaced-rep system, not paper
- 05Review daily, even 10 cards beats a weekly burst
FAQ
Premade decks or make my own?
Make your own for retention. Premade are fine for vocabulary at scale (e.g., MCAT bio). Your own cards encode the concept on creation.
How many cards per day?
20-30 new cards/day is sustainable. More leads to backlog and abandonment.
Does Fennie make cards automatically?
Yes — upload notes or readings and Fennie generates spaced-repetition flashcards.
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