Creating decks
There are three ways to create a deck in Recall:
- Starting from scratch.
- Importing a deck from Anki or Quizlet.
- Copying a shared deck.
On this page, we 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 the default template, a suggested template, or copy the template of another deck.
Selecting a template copies all the deck field settings and 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: Give each field a clear name so you can identify it throughout the app.
- Type: It can be rich content, plain text, number, audio, image, or URL. 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 line breaks, 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 displayed in the card, which you can zoom by clicking it.
- URL: URL to a web page.