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How does Flickdeck decide which cards are due?

Every rating you give (Forgot, Hard, Good, Easy) feeds a spaced-repetition scheduler. It tries to predict when a card is about to slip and brings it back just before that happens. Cards you keep getting right come back less and less often; a card you miss comes back fast. Most days that leaves you a short stack, not the whole deck.

How do I share a deck with a friend?

Open the deck, tap ⋯, then Export deck → Share a copy. You get a .flickdeck file you can AirDrop or message to anyone with the app — in Messages the deck shows a preview right in the thread — and when they open it the deck imports with every card and a fresh schedule. The other export, Backup (keep progress), carries your review history along. That one’s for yourself.

How do I back up, or move to a new iPhone?

Settings → Export all data saves every deck, card, and all your progress to one file. Put it in iCloud Drive or wherever you keep files, then on the new phone use Settings → Import backup. Flickdeck also writes a weekly backup on its own; look in the Files app under Flickdeck → Backups if you need a copy and never made one.

What does suspending a card do?

A suspended card sits out of reviews. Nothing is deleted; its history and schedule just wait until you resume it. Edit the card and pick Suspend card from its menu (resuming works the same way). If a card quizzes in both directions, suspending pauses both.

What’s the difference between the two deck goals?

Keep me refreshed is the default. No end date, just reviews spaced further and further apart so the deck doesn’t fade. Know it by a date is for exams, trips, and interviews: give the deck a target date and the schedule works backward from it, front-loading new cards so you peak when it matters and ease off after.

How many new cards a day? Can I pause them?

Ten a day per deck, by default — each new card earns a few follow-up reviews over its first week, so the pace stays livable. Every deck can set its own rate in deck settings, from 5 up to 30, or None, which pauses new cards entirely while reviews continue — useful for a vacation, a heavy week, or a deck whose long tail you don’t need yet. A Know-it-by-a-date deck raises the pace on its own when the date requires it.

Why is a card’s next test after my learn-by date?

Because that card doesn’t need the help. A deadline deck squeezes extra tests in only while a card still needs them to stick. Once the scheduler is confident you’ll remember a card through the target date without another look, it stops forcing early reviews and lets the interval run long. Shakier cards still get pulled in ahead of the date, and once it passes the deck settles back into normal spacing.

My words are in a spreadsheet. Can I import them?

Yes, with a little tinkering. The .flickdeck format is plain JSON, and it's documented at flickdeck.page/deck-format with a working sample file and a short script that converts a two-column CSV into an importable deck. AirDrop the result to your iPhone and tap it.

Why didn’t I get a reminder?

Flickdeck sends at most one notification a day, and only when a deck actually has cards due. If nothing was due, there was nothing to say. Otherwise, check the deck’s own settings in the app first (reminders are per-deck and start out off), then iOS Settings → Notifications → Flickdeck. A Focus mode or scheduled summary can also quietly hold notifications back.

Can I ask Siri what’s due?

Yes. Say “check what’s due in Flickdeck” (or “what do I have due in Flickdeck”) and Siri answers with today’s count and which decks need you. The same action appears in Spotlight, in the Shortcuts app, and can be assigned to the Action button. Right after installing, give Siri a minute or two to learn the app’s phrases before the first try. Siri handles the request on your device; Flickdeck still collects nothing.

Why does the speak button sound robotic?

Because iOS only ships its smallest voice for most languages, and it shows. Apple’s natural-sounding voices, the ones marked Enhanced or Premium, are free, but you have to download them yourself: iOS Settings → Accessibility → Read & Speak → Voices, pick the language, then pick a voice (the good ones run to a few hundred megabytes, so use Wi-Fi). There’s nothing to set up in the app afterward. Flickdeck always speaks with the best voice installed for a card’s language, so the next tap of the speaker just sounds better.

If you’re learning a language, do this for that language first. You end up imitating the voice you practice with, and the robot is a poor model. Set the deck’s languages too (open the deck, ⋯ → Deck settings) so each side of a card speaks the right one.