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by radiojasper 1387 days ago
As somebody who has no idea what Quizlet is, I have no idea what you expect me to enter in the textare you're showing after clicking Get started. I've entered some text and clicked Learn, only to be presented with an error stating not enough terms. Terms of what?
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I completely agree; the biggest issues on my issue tracker regard better labeling the site and making a more explanatory homepage. You create terms split by the character in the top left, and then (ideally), learn teaches them to you.

e.g.

do, act, drive ago, agere, egi, actus

love, like amo, amare, amavi, amatus

dare audeo, audere, ausus sum

hear audio, audire, audivi, auditus

fall, perish cado, cadere, cecidi, casus

sing, sound cano, canere, cecini, cantus

You first get multiple choice questions, then short answer questions. Later, we want it to show you the flashcards first so you don't have to read through a boring list of terms. Critically, it keeps you from learning more than five novel terms in a row, which is proven to help immensely compared to flashcards.

If you want to learn more, google retrieval learning.

Quizlet is flashcards where you match a term with its definition to help memorize them. Amusingly, a Basic version of this was the first software I ever wrote (back in 1992)

This site would benefit a lot by having some example data prepopulated on the site itself. For now, copy/paste the below text and set the top-left to use commas:

California,Sacramento

Wisconsin,Madison

Georgia,Atlanta

North Dakota,Bismark

South Dakota,Pierre

Massachusetts,Boston

Aha! Thanks a lot for that.