Medicine, nursing, pharmacy
Hundreds of pages of lecture notes, question after question, Anki decks you've already started. Mindlet turns your courses into flashcards and multiple-choice questions, imports your Anki decks with their progress, and spreads the review load day by day.
Anki decks welcome Spaced repetition Why flashcards
Health degrees ask you to remember a lot, for a long time, precisely: names, values, mechanisms, classifications. Rereading can't keep up with that volume. What works is testing yourself regularly and spacing your reviews, two of the best-supported effects in memory research (Roediger and Karpicke, Psychological Science, 2006; Cepeda et al., Psychological Bulletin, 2006).
A flashcard does exactly that: a question, an effort to recall, an answer. That's why so many medical students use Anki. Mindlet keeps the principle and removes the most expensive part: writing the cards.
Spaced repetition, in depth
Pace
There is no universal right number, and be wary of anyone who gives you one. Every new card you learn today comes back several times over the following weeks. Adding lots of cards in one day means heavier reviews on the days after.
The right setting is the one you can keep up. Mindlet shows what's coming up over the next days, and session length can be set to short, medium or long. If the pile grows too fast, slow down on new cards before you skip reviews.
Your lectures
Drop the handout or slides as they are, even scanned. Mindlet reads them, finds the key notions and writes cards in several formats. You can leave out pages, add the next lecture to the same collection, and edit or delete any card.
MCQs
In many medical schools, much of the assessment relies on multiple-choice questions. Mindlet generates them from your courses, mixes them with flashcards in your sessions, and marks them automatically.
Before an exam, the practice exam builds a multiple-choice (or mixed) paper of up to forty questions, timed, with no corrections during the test, graded out of 20 with a breakdown by topic. You can then review the questions you missed.
The MCQ generator
Anki
Already have decks, your own or shared by older students? Drop the .apkg or .colpkg file. With the option to keep your progress switched on, your due dates, review history and suspended cards arrive as they were. Images and sounds come along too.
Anatomy
An anatomy plate is learned by hiding the labels, not by rereading them. Image occlusion cards from your Anki decks import with their masks, and the image occlusion note type is available in the advanced tools if you want to make your own. You can also show the Mindlet assistant a photo of a diagram and ask it to explain a structure.
A typical week
You can't catch up on the volume at the end of term. Here is how it spreads over an ordinary week, between lectures, tutorials and reviews.
The histology and biochemistry handouts you dropped in on Sunday night are ready: topics, flashcards, MCQs and a lesson path.
Dropped in the night before
Before new cards, today's due reviews. That order is what keeps the pile from growing.
One session in the morning, one at night
The anatomy deck you started last year arrives with its due dates. Cards pick up where you left them.
Once and for all
The coagulation cascade won't stick. You ask the Mindlet assistant to walk through it step by step, then to make a few cards from it.
Ten minutes
Six to eight mixed cards, thirty seconds each, to check the week held up.
Five minutes
A forty-question paper on the current module, graded out of 20. The questions you missed go back into your reviews.
About half an hour
On the train, you review a collection already opened on your phone; everything syncs once you're back online.
Offline
A scenario built from the app's features, not a testimonial. Module names vary from one university to another.
In practice
The volume doesn't shrink. What changes is the time spent making and sorting material instead of learning it.
| The step | By hand | With Mindlet |
|---|---|---|
| Making cards | Writing every Anki card from the handout, at night | Cards are drawn from the handout; you read through and correct them |
| Moving a deck | Starting from scratch in a new tool | The Anki deck arrives with its due dates and history |
| Practising MCQs | Hunting for questions that match your course | MCQs generated from your course, mixed into your reviews |
| Testing before exams | Waiting for the next mock exam session | A multiple-choice practice exam whenever you want, graded out of 20 |
| Measuring memory | Trusting the feeling that you know it | Your actual share of successful reviews, period by period |
Measure
The feeling of knowing is misleading, especially late in the day. The statistics screen shows your streak, your mastered cards and, under memory, the share of successful reviews on young and mature cards. You also see how many cards are due over the next days, so you can adjust new cards before the pile overflows.
To be clear
Budget
The free plan has no time limit, and reviewing never costs anything. Notes imported from Anki don't count towards the limits. Paid plans, from €4.99 a month on the web billed yearly, give you more capacity to generate cards.
See pricing FAQ
No. What matters is the method Anki applies: testing yourself and spacing your reviews. Anki does it very well if you write your own cards. Mindlet applies the same method and creates cards from your lecture notes. Your Anki decks import with their progress. Mindlet and Anki compared.
There's no universal number. Each new card comes back several times over the following weeks, so adding too many in one day weighs on the days after. Pick a number you can sustain every day, do your reviews before new cards, and check what's coming up in your statistics before speeding up.
Writing a card helps you understand, but takes time; a shared deck saves that time but may not match your course. Mindlet offers a middle way: cards drawn from your own lecture notes, which you read through and correct. Shared decks import too, and you can edit every card.
By hiding the labels on a plate instead of rereading it: that's image occlusion. Image occlusion cards from Anki import into Mindlet, and the image occlusion note type is available in the advanced tools. Multiple-choice and matching cards work well alongside for insertions and nerve supply.
Mindlet is not a question bank: it doesn't ship official past papers. It generates multiple-choice questions from your own courses, mixes them into your reviews and offers a timed practice exam graded out of 20. If you use a commercial question bank, Mindlet works alongside it for everything in your own lectures.
The Mindlet app interface is in French for now. Your courses, cards and study guides can be in English: content can be generated in nine languages, including English, Spanish and German. The voice assistant speaks French only.
Yes, if you leave the option to keep your progress switched on: your due dates, review history and suspended cards arrive as they were. Without it, every card starts from zero. From then on, Mindlet schedules all reviews with FSRS-6 and adjusts its settings every week to your own forgetting rhythm. So your reviews pick up where Anki left them.
Drop a handout or an Anki deck. Mindlet prepares, you review.
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