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Pharmacards

Pharmacards

Settings

Exam plan, review pace, study screen and your data.

How to use the study screen

Exam

Exam name

The exam you are preparing for.

Exam date

Spreads new cards across the days you have left. Leave empty if you have no date.

New cards per day

Used only when no exam date is set. With a date, the planner spreads unseen cards to finish 10 days before the exam.

cards/day

Spaced repetition

Target retention

The chance you can recall a card when it comes due. A higher target means more reviews. It is used for every new answer.

90%

80% lighter load90% standard97% heavy revision

Scheduler

Free Spaced Repetition Scheduler. Decides when each card comes back.

FSRS

Study screen

Swipe to grade

Left Forgot, right Good, up Easy, down Hard

Up / down swipe zone

Up (Easy) and down (Hard) swipes count only when they start in this strip at the card's edge. Anywhere else, up and down scrolls the answer, so a scroll never grades by accident.

72px

Swipe zone edge

Where on the card up/down swipes start.

Show swipe zone

Draw a dashed outline around the zone. Off keeps it invisible.

Haptic feedback

Short vibration when you grade a card, on devices that support it.

Appearance

Mode

Night mode for low light, Day mode for daylight. Auto follows your device.

Motion

Full keeps swipe animations even if your phone's battery saver turns animations off.

Long essay cards

Ladder: all headings as rows; open each after recalling it and mark it ✓ or ✗. Rail: headings appear one by one, with a progress bar.

Colour theme

Mastery colours (weak, moderate, strong) stay the same in every theme.

App icon

On iPhone, the new icon shows after you Add to Home Screen again. Installed Android and desktop apps keep their original icon.

Custom colours

Override any colour of the theme above. Applies in Night and Day mode.

  • Background
  • Panels
  • Text
  • Secondary text
  • Accent
  • Card background
  • Card text
  • Card secondary text
  • Weak / Forgot
  • Moderate / Hard
  • Strong / Good

Cards

Include unreviewed draft cards

Draft cards are study-ready but not yet approved. Turn off to study approved cards only.

Your data

Export progress

Download a backup file with your study progress, notes, bookmarks and settings.

Import progress

Restore a backup file. Review history is merged. Schedules and notes are replaced unless this device changed them more recently.

Reset study progress

Clears review schedules, review history and mastery snapshots. Cards, approvals, notes and bookmarks are kept.

Pharmacards · MD Pharmacology

All progress is stored on this device.