Active recall flashcards for IB students

Cards you write.
Recalled when it matters.

Write flashcards for the IB ESS and Geography syllabus. The AI grades them green, amber or red. FSRS schedules every review for just before you forget.

  • ESS · SL / HL·438 syllabus points
  • Geography · SL / HL·252 syllabus points
My cards · ESS · SL
82 cards · 60 green
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Your whole deck in one glance. Click a red tile to open the card and rewrite it.

“Effectiveness is a function of atomicity, active generation, effortful retrieval, and algorithmic scheduling.”

The four principles

Four ideas. Every pixel earns its place.

Atomicity, generation, retrieval, scheduling. They run from card-writing to your daily review queue.

Principle 01

Atomicity

One fact per card

Bundle two facts on one card and your recall is 0.9 × 0.9 = 81%. The algorithm can’t isolate which one you forgot. Split it.

Principle 02

Active generation

You write it, you learn it

The generation effect: you remember information you produce yourself. The AI coaches your phrasing — it never writes the card for you.

Principle 03

Effortful retrieval

The struggle is the point

Reading notes feels productive but doesn’t build memory. The pause before you flip the card is where the learning happens.

Principle 04

Scheduling

Review at the right time

FSRS schedules each card just before you forget. Show up consistently and intervals stretch from minutes to months.

AI coaching, not AI generation

Rewrite until it's green.

The AI never writes a card for you. It names what's broken and lets you re-write. Same card. Better question.

Bundled
What you wrote

Describe the process of eutrophication.

Excess nutrients enter water, algae bloom, algae die, decomposition uses oxygen, aquatic organisms die.

AI coach

Five separate steps. Split into five cards so FSRS can isolate the one you forgot.

Atomic
After your rewrite

What is the first stage of eutrophication?

Excess nutrients (N and P) enter a water body.

Scale missing
What you wrote

What is biodiversity?

The variety of life in an area.

AI coach

Pin a level — species, genetic, or ecosystem. Right answers should be unambiguous.

Specific
After your rewrite

What is species diversity?

The variety of species in a given area.

Essay prompt
What you wrote

Explain how a waterfall forms and retreats.

Hard rock overlies soft rock, soft rock erodes, undercutting, overhang collapses, retreat upstream…

AI coach

Five sequential steps in one card. Pick one mechanism per card.

Testable
After your rewrite

What causes undercutting at the base of a waterfall?

Erosion of the softer rock beneath the resistant cap rock.

Your whole deck

See every card you've ever written, by quality.

Every card you've made paints as a single coloured tile, sorted red → amber → green. Click any red tile to open the card and rewrite it. As you internalise the seven rules, the grid drifts greener.

248
Total
18
Red
42
Amber
180
Green
  • The red tiles are an obvious to-do list.
  • Click any tile to open and rewrite the card in place.
  • The grid is per subject and can be organised by unit.
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Describe the process of eutrophication.
Rated red 4 days ago · 5 facts bundled · click to rewrite
FSRS spaced repetition

Minutes today. Months in a year.

Rate each card honestly. The algorithm fits a memory model to you and re-spaces every card the moment you press Good.

10 min
1 day
3 days
8 days
21 days
2 months
6 months

Today you're seeing this card on a 3-day interval. The next time you're Good, it'll push to 8 days.

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