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Concepts
Learn Tool is an active recall learning tool. The application makes use of few key concepts, in order to make it easy to manage the learning material and the learning process.
A Workspace is the first abstraction that you will find after the first login in the Learn Tool application. A Workspace is a container of Cards, and consists of a name and one identificator.
The name of a Workspace does not have to be unique, instead the Workspace identificator is a unique UUID and is automatically assigned by the application during the creation of the Workspace.
A Workspace should be used for grouping all of the Cards that have the same scope or lifecycle, for example you might create a Workspace for learning a new language. Consider to split the Cards in different Workspaces in order to keep the Worskapce scope focused and to simplify the learning process.
A Card has the same concept as the flashcard: on the front of the Card you have the question and on the back of the Card you put the response. The question and response can of course be generalized based on the scope of the Workspace, for example in a language learning Workspace you can define the sentence on one face of the Card and the translated sentence on the other face.
The Learn process consists of studying a series of Cards. The application will automatically select the next Card to study, and you are required to guess the answer based on the question or sentence in the front face of the Card. As soon as you flip the Learn Card, the application will show both the front and the back of the Card, and will ask you to rate your knowledge of the Card from 1 (no knowledge) to 5 (complete knowledge).
The application makes use of a spaced repetition algorithm, in order to provide you a learning process based on your current learning experience. The algorithm follows a set of rules:
- The same Card cannot appear two times during the same day.
- The Card will be diplayed based on the knowledge aquired: the more knowledge you aquire on a specific Card, less frequently the Card will be displayed.