Creating decks
There are three ways to create a deck in Recall:
- Start from scratch.
- By importing from Anki or Quizlet.
- By copying a shared deck.
On this page, we will focus on the first option.
Starting a new deck
A deck just needs a name to be created.
You may be prompted to select a template. You can choose between the default template, suggested templates or to copy the template from another deck.
Selecting a template will copy all the deck fields settings and the card layouts, but not the cards.
The default template has "Front" and "Back" rich content fields.
Managing deck fields
Your deck's data is organized in deck fields, properties that you can fill in for each card. For example, a deck might have "Question" and "Answer" fields.
For each deck field, you can edit the following settings:
- Name: Make sure you give a clear name to each field so you can identify them throughout the app.
- Type: It can be rich content, plain text, URL, or audio. See the details for each type below.
- AI Autofill settings: You can give instructions to generate the value of the field automatically. Learn more.
To create a new deck field, click the button in the cards table then choose the type. A deck can contain up to 30 fields.
To edit the settings of a deck field, click the button .
Deck field types
- Rich content: Text field that allows images and various formatting options such as break lines, bold, italic, and links.
- Plain text: Text without any formatting. You can apply formatting uniformly to the field in the card layouts.
- Number: An integer. Generally used to set a study order.
- Audio: Audio that can be played in the card (manually or automatically).
- Image: Image that can be displayed and zoomed on click in the card.
- URL: URL to a web page.