Practising with flashcards
A deck is just your Notebook, arranged for review. This page covers turning a saved word into a card, what a review session looks like, and the two ways to answer: recognise it, or type it out.
From a saved word to a card
Start from a word or a phrase
Add to Flashcards opens from a saved Notebook entry or straight from a translation popup while you are reading. A single word becomes a Basic card — front and back, with an optional reverse card so it also tests you the other way. A longer phrase becomes a cloze card: you tap the word or words in it that should be blanked out, and the rest stays as context.
Choose a deck
Pick an existing deck or create one inline without leaving the sheet. E-clair remembers the last deck you added to, so building one deck word by word from the same episode does not mean reselecting it every time.
A review session, step by step
Open a deck
The Flashcards tab lists your decks with how many cards are due in each. Tap one to start a session.
See the front, then reveal
One card is on screen at a time. Tap it to flip from the front to the answer. If the card came from a saved word, a small speaker icon plays the original audio snippet it was anchored to, and a jump-to-source icon takes you back to that exact moment in the transcript.
Grade it
Once flipped, four buttons appear — grade honestly and the session moves itself along. A running "done · left" count sits at the top so you always know how much is left.
Finish or come back later
The session ends when nothing is left due. You will see how many cards you reviewed and, if none were due to begin with, when the next one becomes due.
Grading a card
Once you have flipped a card, four buttons decide what happens to it next.
- Again
- You did not recall it. The card comes back for another try sooner rather than later.
- Hard
- You got there, but it was a struggle.
- Good
- A normal, confident recall.
- Easy
- Trivially easy — you barely needed to think.
Typing the answer
Turn on Type the answer for a deck (in its settings) and review switches from flip-to-reveal to fill-in-the-blank: the prompt appears with one or more inline inputs, you type into them, and Reveal shows the result in place rather than flipping the card over.
- What you typed is checked leniently: E-clair trims whitespace, folds case, drops leading and trailing punctuation, and — importantly — ignores accents. A missing é still counts as correct.
- The reveal still shows you the fully accented, correctly punctuated answer, coloured letter by letter — green where you matched it, red where you missed it — so you see exactly what the accent-insensitive check let you get away with.
- A row of accented characters appears above the keyboard, specific to the card’s language, for when you want to type them properly rather than rely on the lenient check.
- Grading is still yours to give, but E-clair pre-selects a suggestion based on what you typed: every input right suggests Good, none right suggests Again, and a mix suggests Hard. You can always override it before confirming.
What comes up next
A session always works through anything already overdue first, then cards you have reviewed before, and saves brand-new cards for last. Within each of those groups, whichever is due soonest comes up first.