Exercise decks
An exercise on a studio page is done once and forgotten: you answer it, you press Check exercises, and you move on. That is fine for reading, and not enough for remembering. The hub’s fourth door, Exercises, is where an exercise goes to be remembered. It keeps exercises in decks and brings each one back when it is due, sooner when it was hard and later when it was easy, exactly as Anki brings back a card.
The door is at /exercises/ in Parseh. On the hub it carries two counts — how many decks you have and how many exercises are due now — and, like every door, the counts follow the language chip you picked there.
1. What a deck holds#
A deck holds studio exercises: the same :::exercise blocks a document holds, all fourteen kinds of them — blanks to fill, sentences to build and to order, pairs to match, choices, true or false, yes or no, and flashcards of every kind, with their pictures and recordings. On the study page each one is shown unsolved, as a question, and you answer it as you would on the page.
:::exercise true-falseprompt: True or false?- [سلام]{tl} is said on arriving => true- [خداحافظ]{tl} is said on arriving => false::::::exercise flashcardcard-type: vocabtarget: [نان]{tl}transliteration: nânmeaning: bread:::Try them: answer the first and press Check exercises at the foot of this page; click the card to turn it. They are written in the studio’s dialect — this guide’s section on the dialect shows every kind, and The Parseh dialect sums it up — but you rarely write one by hand: the studio’s exercise form writes them for you. A deck does not care how an exercise was written: once it is in, it is one exercise with its own schedule.
A deck has one language. When you make a deck you say which of the eleven languages it is for, and every exercise in it is in that language, drawn in that language’s face and direction — right to left for Persian and Arabic. That is also why a document’s exercises are offered only to the decks of the document’s own language.
2. The life of an exercise#
- You write it, in a studio document (or straight into a deck, with the same form the editor uses).
- You copy it into a deck: the + Deck button beside it on the document’s page, or + Add all exercises for the whole page. A book’s reader and a video’s player send the cards you make there to a deck too.
- You study: Study now shows the exercises that are due, one at a time. You answer, you see whether you were right, and you say how hard it was — Again, Hard, Good or Easy.
- It comes back when the scheduler says it should: in a minute if you did not know it, in a day, then in a few days, then in weeks and months as long as you keep knowing it.
The copy is a copy. Changing the document afterwards changes nothing in the deck, and studying the deck changes nothing in the document: the deck keeps its own exercise, its own pictures and recordings, and its own record of every answer you gave.
3. Where to start#
New to decks? Three pages take you from nothing to a first session:
- The decks page — make a deck with + New deck.
- Filling a deck — copy a document’s exercises into it with + Deck or + Add all exercises.
- Studying — Study now, and the four ratings.
The rest can wait until you want it: browsing and tidying a deck, cramming before a test, the scheduler’s arithmetic and its options, and moving decks between machines. Every page of the section is listed below.
Where do the words “new”, “learning” and “review” come from?
From Anki, as does the whole scheme. An exercise you have never answered is new. Once answered, it goes through a few short learning steps — minutes apart — until you know it, and then becomes a review: it waits days, and each time you know it the wait grows. Forgetting a review is a lapse, and sends it back through a short relearning step. The scheduler page has the numbers.