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GoodNotes lets you create and study flashcards using Spaced Repetition. Put simply, by employing the technique to space out your learning, you can retain more information with less time. And to that end, all you need to do is do a bit of setup and let GoodNotes handle the rest.

<aside> ℹ️ This is a legacy feature. See Learn with Study Sets.

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Flashcard Quick Start

  1. Launch the app, choose the large New... button > Notebook:

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  2. Choose GoodNotes Standard or A7 (iPhone) from the first dropdown list (Paper Size), choose Portrait from the second dropdown list (Orientation) and scroll the Essentials category all the way to the right to see the Flashcard template (the very last one in this category):

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  3. Name your notebook in the Title field and choose Create.

  4. On a new page, write the question in the top half of the page, and the answer in the bottom half. These halves respectively correspond to the Front & Back sides of a physical flashcard.

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  5. Repeat the previous step for any other question-answer pair to form a flashcard deck.

  6. Open the More menu (...) in the top-right corner > Study Flashcards.

  7. For each flashcard, you will see the question (Front side) first. Tap the screen to show the corresponding answer (Back side).

  8. Once the answer is shown, indicate the difficulty of the question based on how easily you were able to recall the answer:

The next time you activate Study Flashcards mode, GoodNotes will determine the best order in which each card is shown again in order to aid your recall. Continue to indicate the difficulties of the questions to help GoodNotes perfect the review order for you.

Reset your learning progress

<aside> ℹ️ Study Flashcards mode starts only when there is at least one flashcard (i.e. a page in a flashcard template) in the current notebook, and non-flashcard pages are skipped in this mode.

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Enable flashcards functionality for a paper template

The built-in flashcard template isn’t yet available in all paper sizes or orientations, but you can mark any template as a flashcard template: