Guide Refine with AI

Refine Flashcards with AI

Refine with AI lets you reshape an entire flashcard deck in one action -- tell the AI what to change and it rewrites the affected cards for you. No more editing cards one at a time when the whole deck needs a tune-up.

Where to Find It

There are two ways to open the refine prompt:

  • From the editor tab -- Open a deck and switch to the Editor tab. The Refine with AI panel appears above your card list.
  • After studying 5 cards -- Once you have reviewed at least 5 cards in study mode, a Refine prompt surfaces so you can adjust the deck without leaving your session.

Quick Suggestions

For common tweaks, use one of the one-click suggestions:

  • Make it harder -- Raise the difficulty across the deck and add trickier distractors.
  • Simplify the language -- Rewrite cards in plainer words for easier review.
  • Add more detail -- Expand card answers with extra context and examples.
  • Make it more visual -- Encourage the AI to add analogies, diagrams, or mental pictures where it helps.

Custom Instructions

If none of the presets match what you want, type a free-text instruction. Some examples:

  • "Focus the deck on definitions and skip application questions."
  • "Rewrite every answer as a two-sentence summary."
  • "Add a mnemonic to every card that has a formula."
  • "Convert all cards into fill-in-the-blank format."

The more specific your instruction, the better the result.

How It Works

When you submit a refinement:

  1. The AI reads your full deck along with your instruction.
  2. Large decks are processed in batches so results stay reliable even on 300-card sets.
  3. A progress indicator shows which batch is currently being refined.
  4. When finished, your deck updates in place -- no new deck is created.

You can keep studying or editing other decks while a refinement runs in the background.

Review Before Accepting

After a refinement finishes, you can review the new version of each card before keeping it. If something is off, undo the refinement and try a different instruction.

Limits

Refine with AI is a premium feature. Each deck supports up to 3 refinements, so use them when you know what you want to change. Free users can try the feature on a sample deck -- after that, refinements are unlocked with premium.

Tips

  • Run Make it harder right before an exam to stress-test yourself with tougher questions.
  • Use Simplify the language when you generated a deck from a dense research paper or a textbook chapter.
  • Chain refinements: simplify the language first, then add more detail. Each step builds on the previous deck state.
  • Pair Refine with AI with Hard Questions -- generate a harder version of the deck, then study only the cards you flag.
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