MemDecks

Getting started

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Learning in MemDecks means playing a game with the cards you have saved. There is no separate "study" mode and no review queue to clear: you open the Games tab, pick a game, answer, and MemDecks records progress on each card you touched. This page describes the first hour, in order.

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Open the games list

The first hour, in order

  1. Choose a study language. In Profile, or on the first-run screen. One at a time; switching is free and loses nothing.
  2. Get to ten cards. Two Phrase Builder lessons, one ready-made deck, or ten passes through the Translator. Ten is the count that opens every game.
  3. Play one game to the end. Not several — one. The end-of-game summary is where MemDecks tells you what moved.
  4. Look at the Collection tab. Each card now shows a progress percentage. That number is the whole model, and it is explained in card progress.
  5. Add more words. Press Next word in the Translator and take what the pump offers.

What a normal session looks like after that

MemDecks does not prescribe a session length or a daily target, and it will not tell you that you have a streak to protect. A useful default is: add a handful of new words, then play one or two games with everything you have. Both halves matter — new cards without practice sit at 0%, and practice without new cards stops adding vocabulary.

Because games draw from your whole collection, old cards keep reappearing on their own. You do not have to schedule revision; you have to keep playing. How a session works describes what happens mechanically during one.

Which game to start with

A first game by what you want out of it
If you want…Start withWhy
To learn words you do not know yetPhrase BuilderIt teaches five new words rather than testing existing ones.
To find out what you actually rememberWordBase QuizRecognition, four options, fast rounds.
To practise spelling in the target scriptWord TypeYou rebuild the word letter by letter from a mixed pool.
Something calmWord MahjongA solitaire board of matching word and translation tiles.
To read a new alphabetAlphabet QuestText that shifts from English into the target script. Armenian, Greek and Russian only.

When to create an account

When you would mind losing what you have. A guest session lives in one browser: clear its storage, switch device, or leave it idle long enough and the collection is gone. An account is what makes a collection portable and durable, and it costs an email address or a Google sign-in.

Signing up from a guest session merges everything the guest built — cards, decks, subscriptions and progress — into the new account. Nothing has to be redone.