11. Power Features
Power Features — Study Mode, Sidebar & More
This tutorial covers the more advanced features of NoteDex: Study Mode, the productivity sidebar, printing, and additional views.
Study Mode
Study Mode turns any stack into an interactive flashcard session — perfect for learning, revision, or memorization.
Starting Study Mode
- Open a stack from the Home page.
- Click the ... (more) button in the top-right corner of the Cards View.
- Click the graduation cap icon (Study Mode).
- The Study Mode Options dialog appears.
Study Mode Options
| Option | What it does |
|---|---|
| Shuffle Cards | Randomizes the card order each session |
| Show Back First | Start each card showing the back side |
| Only 'NEW' Cards | Study only cards not yet reviewed |
| Only 'WRONG' Cards | Re-study cards marked as wrong |
| Only 'NOT SURE' Cards | Re-study cards marked as not sure |
| Only 'RIGHT' Cards | Review cards marked as correct |
| Only Cards in Group | Filter to a specific group |
| Only Cards with Tag | Filter to cards with a specific tag |
| Only Favorites | Study only starred cards |
Click START to begin your session. After reviewing each card you mark it as Right, Wrong, or Not Sure — NoteDex tracks your progress over time using the Leitner spaced repetition method, so you can focus study time on the cards you find hardest. When you finish you get a performance score:
Click RESET STUDY DATA to clear all scores and start fresh for this stack (same as the option in the stack's ... menu on the Home page).
Study Status Icons on Card Thumbnails
After a study session, each card thumbnail in the Cards View shows a small colored study icon indicating its current status:
| Color | Status |
|---|---|
| White | NEW — not yet studied |
| Red | WRONG — marked incorrect |
| Yellow | NOT SURE — uncertain |
| Green | RIGHT — marked correct |
This gives you a quick visual overview of your progress across the whole deck at a glance.
Filtering by Study Status
In the filter bar at the top of the Cards View, use the study filter icon (graduation cap) to show only cards with a particular status — for example, show only cards marked WRONG to focus your next study session.
The Productivity Sidebar (Right Panel)
The right sidebar provides quick access to a scratchpad and your recently viewed cards without leaving the current stack.
Opening the Sidebar
Click the › arrow on the far right edge of any Cards View to open the panel. Click it again to close.
Quick Note
The top section of the sidebar is a Quick Note scratchpad:
- Type a note title and body directly in the panel.
- Use the stack selector dropdown to choose which stack to save it to.
- Click the Save (floppy disk) icon to save it as a new card in the selected stack.
Great for capturing ideas quickly without navigating away from what you're doing.
Recent Cards
Below Quick Note is a grid of Recent Cards — thumbnails of the cards you've opened most recently, across all stacks. Click any thumbnail to jump straight to that card.
Use the ≡ / ⊞ toggle to switch between list and grid display, and the ↺ refresh button to update the list.
You can also use the dropdown to view any cards in any stack.
Additional Views from the ... Menu
The ... (more) button on the Cards View (Thumbnail view) top bar reveals several extra tools:
| Icon | Feature |
|---|---|
| Flip All Cards | Flip every card to its back side |
| Graduation cap | Study Mode |
| Share | Share the cards in this Stack |
| Save / Print | Save Cards as PDF for Printing / Images or Text. |
| Multi Select | Select multiple cards at once |
| Text Import | Import cards from CSV or spreadsheet grid |
Multi Select
Multi Select lets you perform bulk actions on several cards at once — move, copy, tag, hide, or delete a whole group in one step.
How to Use Multi Select
- In the Cards View, click the ... (more) button in the top-right corner.
- Click the Multi Select icon (checklist).
- Checkboxes appear on every card thumbnail.
- Click the checkboxes to select the cards you want to act on.
Multi Select Actions
A toolbar appears at the top of the screen with the following actions:
| Button | What it does |
|---|---|
| × (Exit) (Blue) | Exit multi-select mode |
| ✓ (Select All) | Select every card in the current view |
| 🗑 Delete (Red) | Delete all selected cards |
| Move To Stack | Move selected cards to another stack |
| Copy To Stack | Copy selected cards to another stack |
| Move To Group | Move selected cards into a group |
| Add Tag | Apply a tag to all selected cards |
| Show Cards | Make hidden cards visible |
| Hide Cards | Hide selected cards |
Text Import (CSV Import)
Text Import lets you create many cards at once — either by typing them into a spreadsheet grid or by importing a CSV file.
How to Open Text Import
- In the Cards View, click the ... (more) button in the top-right corner.
- Click the Text Import icon.
Using the Spreadsheet Grid
The import page shows a table with five columns: Title, Front Text, Back Text, Group, and Tag.
- Click + Add to add a new blank row and type directly into the cells.
- Use Edit and Delete to modify or remove rows.
- Click Save to save your changes to the grid.
Importing from a CSV File
Click Import CSV to upload a file. The expected format is one card per row, with exactly five fields:
Title, Front, Back, Group, Tag
Once your data is in the grid, click Create Cards to generate all the cards in the current stack.
> Tip: Tick Generate Thumbnails before clicking Create Cards if you want card preview images to be created immediately. It can take slightly longer but is ultimately better.
>Tip: Create your cards in Excel with the right columns, then save that file as a '.csv' to use to import.
CSV means comma separated values text file.
Card Detail — Zoom & Card Filmstrip
Zooming In and Out
When viewing a card in the Card Detail view, you can zoom to make the card larger or smaller.
- The current zoom level is shown in the top-right corner (e.g., - 125% +).
- Click + to zoom in and - to zoom out.
- This changes how large the card appears on screen without affecting the card's content or font sizes.
Card Filmstrip (Quick Navigation)
At the very bottom of the Card Detail view is a small ^ caret handle.
- Click the caret to open the filmstrip panel — a horizontal strip of card thumbnails showing all cards in the current stack.
- The filmstrip has its own filter bar (All Groups, Select Tag(s), Original Order, Search) so you can narrow down which cards appear in the strip.
- Click any thumbnail to jump straight to that card.
- Click the v caret at the bottom to collapse the filmstrip panel.
Recent Stacks Slider (Home Page)
The Home page has the same ^ caret handle at the very bottom of the screen.
- Click the caret to open the Recent Stacks panel — a horizontal strip of thumbnails showing the stacks you've visited most recently, across all workspaces.
- Click any thumbnail to jump directly into that stack.
- Click the v caret to hide the panel again.
This is a fast way to return to a stack you were just working in without scrolling through the full Home page grid.
Archive
The Archive keeps stacks you no longer actively need but don't want to delete.
- To archive a stack: hover over it on the Home page → ... → Archive.
- To access archived stacks: click the Archive icon in the left sidebar.
- Archived stacks are hidden from the Home page but all their cards are preserved.
Favorites
The Favorites tab shows all the cards you have favorited, regardless of which stack they are in,
- To favorite a card: click the 'Favorite' star at the top menu of a card.
Recents
The Recents tab shows all the cards you created recently, regardless of which stack they are in,
Smart Stack View
Smart Stack View is accessible from the left sidebar (the smart folder icon). It provides an intelligent, filtered view of cards across your stacks — surfacing cards based on tags, recent activity, or other criteria without you having to navigate into each stack individually.
You can create 'Smart Stacks' that you can keep coming back to with pre-set search criteria you define, with text and/or tags:
Draft Cards
Draft Cards (accessible from the left sidebar) shows cards that have been saved as drafts rather than published to a stack when in OFFLINE mode. If you are in Offline mode, you can create new cards but they appear here. When you are back ONLINE then you click the menu on each of these cards to send them to NoteDex server and they are created in the appropriate Stack.