Why does spaced repetition beat one long study session?
Weeks after studying, spaced review scored 62% on recall. One long session scored 33%.
01 · the promise
Spaced repetition cards. Without making a single card.
Agora is a flashcard app that turns your notes and PDFs, even a whole course, into spaced repetition cards, each one cited to its source. Agora decides what deserves a card, phrases it so it sticks, checks every line against your source, and schedules it. The only work left is remembering.
write your answer
First, get it wrong
02 · the enemy
The cards were always the work.
Deciding what is worth remembering. Phrasing it so it still makes sense in three weeks. Keeping the deck alive. That is the heavy part, and where you are more likely to stop: a few weeks in, then blaming your own discipline.
It was never discipline. Writing a good card is a craft, and you were doing it in the margins of the thing you were actually trying to learn. Discipline is a limited resource, and the drafting spends it before the reviewing starts.
Agora takes that whole job. You bring the source; it decides what deserves a card, writes it, and checks it back against that source. But it does not stop there.
03 · the judge
Then you answer in your own words.
The judge reads it for substance and tells you what you missed first, then what you got right.
You missed it. The card returns this session and starts its interval over.
You half had it. The gap still grows, just less than Solid would give it.
You had it. The gap grows, and the queue makes room for what you know less well.
04 · the payoff
Built for memory.
Fewer cards, on purpose
Fewer, because every card you keep is one you will have to review. Agora drafts, then a second pass keeps, sharpens, or splits each one. Anything it cannot tie to a line in your own source is refused before it saves.
Practice past recall
Case studies, compared pairs, and worked examples that fade their help, because the real test will not phrase the question like your card did. Each is drawn from your own source, the type matched to the lesson.
Scheduled by FSRS-6
The same review history always produces the same next date.
Use Agora on all your devices
Web, iOS and Android, all synced at launch.
05 · fair questions
Asked, answered.
I already have a flashcard app. It works.
Its scheduling is probably excellent. But Agora is more than scheduling the flashcards you write: it drafts the cards, judges the answers, and gives you room to practice.
Can an AI judge whether I understood?
It judges substance against your own source, shows its reasoning, and leads with the gap so you can disagree in one read. You stay the final judge of the judge.
What does it cost?
Pricing is not final. Waitlist members see it first, before launch.
06 · the invitation
Learning is supposed to stick, with the right tool.
Agora is what happens when you have all the right tools in one place for your material. It is not open yet. Joining gets you first access the day it opens, with curated decks to try.