Practice: turn any deck into AI-generated exercises that make you use what you memorised

For most of a study session you are doing one thing: you see a prompt, you retrieve the answer, you rate how it went. That is active recall, and it is the single most effective study habit there is. But recognising a card you have seen a hundred times is not quite the same as being able to use the thing it teaches. You can recall that entschuldigen means "to apologise" and still stall when you need it in a sentence.

Practice, launching in Memor More in August 2026, is built for that gap. It takes a deck you already study and generates a set of short exercises where your own cards are the answers — so you apply the material in new contexts instead of only recognising it.

Recognition is not the same as application

Reviewing a flashcard is recognition memory: the card supplies the cue, and you confirm the link. That is exactly what you want early on, and it is what spaced repetition schedules so efficiently. The limit is that the cue never changes. After enough reviews you can start recognising the card — its wording, its position, the shape of the answer — rather than truly knowing the content.

Retrieving the same fact in a context the app writes fresh each time closes that loophole. The cognitive-science term is transfer: knowledge is more durable, and more usable, when you have retrieved it across varied situations rather than one fixed prompt. A fill-in-the-blank sentence forces you to notice how a word behaves; a multiple-choice question with plausible distractors makes you rule out the near-misses instead of pattern-matching the one card you memorised. Both are still retrieval practice — the engine behind spaced repetition — just aimed at using the term rather than naming it.

Practice does not replace review. It layers a second, harder pass on top of the daily habit that got the cards into your head in the first place.

How Practice works

For any deck with 10 or more usable cards, Memor More can build a Practice Set: a bundle of 10–15 mixed exercises generated by the AI, with your deck's terms as the answers.

1. Open the new Practice tab, or the Practice action on a deck's detail screen.
2. Pick a deck and generate a set. The AI reads your cards and writes the exercises.
3. Work through them one screen at a time. Answer, see whether you were right, and continue — no timer, no pressure.
4. Finish on a completion screen with your score and a per-type breakdown.

The first release ships two exercise types, and the player is built so more can slot in later without a redesign.

Fill-in-the-blank

A sentence appears with a gap, and you complete it by choosing from option chips pulled from your deck. Because the wrong options are your own related terms, you cannot guess by elimination the way you can with random distractors — you have to know which word actually fits the sentence.

Multiple choice

The AI writes a question and offers several answers; one of your deck's terms is correct. This is closest to how the material shows up in an exam or a real conversation: the prompt is new, and you supply the term from memory rather than confirming a face you already know.

Practice vs Quiz: two different jobs

Memor More already has a Quiz mode, and Practice is deliberately not a re-skin of it.

| | Quiz | Practice | |---|---|---| | What it tests | Recognition of the card itself | Use of the term in a new context | | Where the prompt comes from | Your existing cards | AI-written sentences and questions | | Best for | Checking you have met the material | Checking you can actually apply it |

Use Quiz to confirm a deck has stuck. Use Practice when you want to move from "I recognise this" to "I can use this" — the step most study tools skip.

It fits the habit you already have

Practice is designed to sit alongside your reviews, not compete with them.

• It counts where it should. A completed Practice Set feeds your daily goal, your streak, and your statistics.
• It leaves the schedule alone. Practice does not change your spaced-repetition timings. Your review queue is still driven only by how you rate cards in normal study, so you can practise as much as you like without nudging the algorithm off course. (For why that separation matters, see spaced repetition vs massed practice.)
• It rewards understanding, not cramming. Because exercises are written from your terms, a set is only as good as the cards behind it — the same argument for atomic, one-fact cards made in flashcards for exam revision.

Generate once, replay offline, on a fair free tier

Generating a Practice Set is an AI action, so it happens online and costs a generation. Everything after that is free and local:

• Replays are always free and offline. Once a set exists, it lives on your device and you can redo it as many times as you want, with no connection.
• The free tier is usable. Free users get a set number of generations each month; premium removes the monthly cap. Whatever you have already generated stays playable on any tier.
• A set can go stale, not missing. If you materially change a deck — add cards, rewrite answers — its Practice Set is marked stale rather than deleted. You can keep replaying the old set or regenerate a fresh one that reflects the new cards.
• You can flag a bad exercise. AI occasionally writes an awkward or ambiguous item; a flag button on each exercise reports it so the sets keep improving.

Decks under 10 cards show up in the Practice tab but stay locked, with a small "add a few more cards to unlock" nudge, because the AI needs enough terms to write varied questions and believable wrong answers.

Getting ready for August

You do not need to do anything special to prepare — but Practice will feel best on decks that are already in good shape. Between now and launch:

• Keep cards atomic: one fact per card makes for cleaner exercises.
• Grow your most-used decks past the 10-card mark so they are unlocked on day one.
• If you teach or study in a group, note that shared decks will be practisable too — everyone who has the deck can generate their own set.

Practice is the same idea Memor More has always been built on — retrieval beats rereading — pushed one step further, from recalling the card to using what is on it. It arrives in August 2026 on iPhone, iPad, and Mac.

Related guides

• What is active recall? — the retrieval habit Practice extends
• Spaced repetition: what the research shows — why retrieval and timing compound
• The Feynman technique + flashcards — another way to turn recall into understanding
• Flashcards for exam revision — writing cards that make good exercises