Glossary

  1. File Menu
  2. Launch Application
  3. Hardware Buttons
  4. Deck List Screen
  5. Deck Details Screen
  6. Card Details Screen
  7. Enter Characters
  8. Flash Card Review Session
  9. Multiple Choice Review Session
  10. Deck Statistics


File Menu


To access the pragram's menu tap on the 'Menu' icon at the bottom left corner of your handheld's graffiti pad. You will see a menu bar appear at the top of your screen. The menu bar.

The menu icon.

Launch Application


To launch Card in Hand, tap on its icon in your handheld's application browser. The icon is displayed in the screenshot to the right.
Icon for application on handheld desktop.

Hardware Buttons


During a Flash Card review session buttons on the handheld can be used in place of pushing buttons on the screen.
  • 'Applications' button: This is the far left button. If you push this button it is equivelent to ending the review session. The Deck Statistics screen will be displayed.
  • Scroll Up/Down buttons: The scroll up/down buttons allow you to scroll through very long text as described during a review session.
  • The two buttons at the right serve to select any buttons that appear at the bottom right corner of the screen. The far right button corresponds to the 'Right' button, and the second from the right corresponds to the button labelled 'Wrong'.

During the Multiple Choice Review Session, buttons on the handheld have a different interpretation for the review session's unique format.
  • The four buttons at the bottom of the screen correspond to the 'A', 'B', 'C', and 'D' multiple choice answers for the question side of the card.

hardware buttons.

Deck List Screen


The Deck List screen shows all of the decks on your handheld. You can open decks and create new ones from this screen, as well as register your program.

The table rows have four columns. They provide you with information on how your progress:
  1. '%': This column provides you with a brief idea of how well you know the deck. As you learn each of the cards within your deck the percentage increases. As you learn the cards and they all approach the maximum level, this value will approach 100%.
  2. 'Deck': The name of the deck.
  3. '#': The 'number' column tells you how many questions need to be reviewed right now for the deck.
  4. 'Rev@': The 'review at' column tells you when more cards will be need to be reviewed, and the value listed in the '#' column will increase. If the column says 'now' then all of the cards in the deck need to be reviewed.

Note that you can tap on the headers to sort the values in the table in ascending or descending order.
The deck list screen.

Deck Details Screen


The Deck Details screen shows you the cards in your deck. All functions in the deck can be accessed from here: you can add/edit/delete cards, modify Review settings, and Review the deck.

The table rows have three columns that provide a brief look at the state of the card:
  1. The first two columns in the screen shot to the right show the values for the first two categories of the deck. If your deck has more than two categories, values can be viewed for a card by editing the card.
  2. 'Lev': The current levels for all of the categories being quizzed.

Note that you can tap on the headers to sort the values in the table in ascending or descending order.
The deck details screen.

Card Details Screen


The Card Details screen allows you to edit and add cards. You can also modify the columns for the entire deck through this screen's menu. Tapping on any row in the table updates the text field at the top of the screen so that you may edit the contents of the category. When you have made your changes either write an ENTER or TAB character, or tap the 'Add' button to the right of the text field.

Editing Cards - When editing a card all of the categories are filled in with the current values for all of the catogories of the card. Hitting the 'Save' button saves any changes that are made to the values of the cards. Tapping the 'Cancel' button doesn't change any of the values for the card.
Adding Cards - When adding cards this screen has been setup so that under normal circumstances you do not need to tap anything on the screen. You may begin writing in the value for the first category, and then writing an ENTER or TAB character. The value you wrote will be updated for the column, and then the next column in the table will be hilighted and you can continue writing the value for the next category, followed by an ENTER or TAB character. Once all of the columns have values you can add the card to your deck by writing another ENTER or TAB character. The screen will be reset so that you can add a new card. (in the screenshot of editng a card, the 'Save' button at the bottom of the screen would be 'Add').
The edit card screen.

Enter Characters


Follow the illustrations at the right show how to write the 'ENTER' character on the Graffiti pad.
The ENTER character.



Deck Settings

The review session has several configurable options that you can customize per deck:
  1. 'Auto repeat deck': Normally after you review all of the possible cards, a summary screen is displayed. If you prefer to restart the review session and skip the summary screen you can do so by cheking this option.
  2. 'Enforce strict levels': When you start to review the deck you can always review cards, even if there are no cards that need to be reviewed! If no cards need to be reviewed, all of the cards in the lowest level bin are reviewed. Normally only cards that need to be reviewed are reviewed. This can be problematic in that the cards you answer correctly will go UP into the next level when you haven't allowed enough time since the previous review of the card. This can lead to the false impression that the card is ingrained into your memory more than in fact it is. For instance, you can review your entire deck over and over again in a very short period of time so that all of the cards end up in the highest level. But the next day, chances are you won't remember half of the cards anymore. This defeats the purpose of using the Leitner method. To combat this problem (if you are the kind of person that reviews your cards a lot and might confuse yourself as in the previous example), you can check this option. It will not move a card into the next level up, unless it needed to be quized in the first place. This means you can review the cards in the lowest bin as much as you want - but only those that needed to be reviewed will go up to the next level.
  3. 'Goto Answer after': To save an extra key tap you can have the review session move from the Question screen to the Answer screen after a set number of seconds by checking this options. This is particularly handy for speeding up your review sessions, by saving an extra screen tap or button push on your part.
  4. 'Test categories': Tap the 'Edit' button to edit which categories you want to quiz yourself on.
Deck settings.
The categories screen lets you choose which categories you want to quiz yourself on. Tap on a row to toggle the catogory for review. Each category that you check will show up as a Question during Review sessions. At least one category must be checked.
Editing categories reviewed.

Flash Card Review Session


The review screen is allows you to perform a review session. The screen alternates between showing you just the 'Question' and then showing the 'Answer'. When the 'Answer' side is displayed you answer whether you correctly remembered what the card was. There are several settings on the top of the screen that tell you information about the review session:

  • In the upper left corner of the screen a list of how many cards are in the review session, and which card you are on is displayed.
  • In the center, the name of the deck is displayed.
  • When the 'Auto repeat deck' setting is enabled, a small broken circle icon is displayed in the upper right corner.
  • When the 'Goto Answer after' setting is enabled a small clock icon is displayed in the upper right hand corner of the screen.
  • The 'Q' and 'A' letters are the first letter of the card category displayed.
Review session screen.
Both the 'Question' and 'Answer' part of a card can be arbitrarily long. As in the example to the right, when text is too large to fit on one screen 'page up' and 'page down' icons appear in the lower right hand section of the screen. You can tap on the arrows, or use the handheld hardware buttons to scroll through the entirety of the text. A screenshot of a long answer.
When on the Question part of the card writing any characters will cause a dialog to popup, so that the answer for the card may be written in. Writing an ENTER character or tapping the Done button on the dialog dismisses the dialog. If the answer written is correct the next question in the review is displayed - otherwise the answer to the current card is displayed.
Write the answer

Multiple Choice Review Session


The multiple choice review option allows you to review cards in a multiple choice format. The review session consists of a question phase where a question is displayed, and an answer session, where the correct answer to the question is displayed. In the screenshot to the right, the question is from the State category (denoted by 'S:') of 'Colorado'. Four possible answers to the State nickname are displayed below. Tap on the correct answer, or use the handheld's hardware keys to answer to pick the answer.

If the correct answer is picked, a new question will be displayed. If the incorrect answer is picked, the screen will show the correct answer before going on to the next question.

The example to the right is for a deck with four categories; each question will randomly choose a category for to answer.

The hardware buttons can be used instead of tapping on the screen.
multiple choice question.

multiple choice answer.

Deck Statistics


The deck statistics shows a graph of what levels the questions in the deck are located. It provides information about how well the deck is learned. Columns at the left of the screen represent cards in the level 0 bin and bins to the right represent how many cards are in the higher level bins. The number of questions in each level is listed below the column.
Deck statistics.