Cobocards Is An Impressive, Collaborative Flash Card Webapp
Cobocards is a free, web-based flash card application with an emphasis on collaboration, so you can create and study a set of flash cards alongside your friends or fellow students.
We’ve covered flash card apps in the past, but Cobocards sets itself apart with an impressive feature set. Not only does it do all the basics, like tracking your progress as you study, but it also sports several useful features we haven’t always seen from its competition, such as several printable templates, an activity feed and message board for keeping track of your friends’ and collaborators’ activity (like if they’ve added new cards to a deck), and, of course the collaboration itself.
For a fuller understanding of how it works, hit up the video demonstration on the homepage. If you’ve already got a preferred study companion for this sort of work, let’s hear about it in the comments.
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This looks like it can be an excellent tool for students. What I really want for myself is index cards. Not a notebook like OneNote, but actual (well, virtual) index cards that would allow me to create note cards and source cards for use on research. Of course, being able to reorder them would be key.
jupiterthunder
Anki is definitely the best. Its UI is not very friendly, but if you take the time to learn it, it is perfect. It has a dedicated client that works on Win/Linux/OS X, it syncs with a central server, and it has a web version.
ClaireHaeru
In terms of studying, electronic flash cards aren't useful. One of the main benefits of physical index cards is that you remember much of the information simply by writing it on the card. I've tried using electronic flash cards for a couple of tests and ended up doing very very poorly. On other tests in the same class, I got A-'s when I used physical index cards.
matzahboy
@jupiterthunder: AZZ Cardfile does old-school index cards. I'm not sure about reording the cards (I've not used the program in awhile), though.
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NotMandatory
I read flash card and thought compact flash.
sample032
@[web.mac.com]), which also uses spaced learning, but this looks like it may have more features. Online syncing and image support may just push me over the edge.
identityresearcher
@ClaireHaeru: I too am deeply impressed with Anki. The spaced learning algorithm is indispensable. Really, if you're going to be trying to tackle something really big (like a language), spaced learning is an essential. It makes learning a million times more efficient. From what I've read, Cobocards doesn't have such an algorithm. It's a must have.
ohhenry1
A friend of mine is a lecturer at university. She is looking for some kind of flashcard system that she can implement on her own homepage so as to get attention for her (at the moment joomla based) homepage as well as helping students study the language.
Any ideas?
simone
I recommended this to Lifehacker a few months ago. I'm glad to see it being published now. Took a little while, but there we go.
Cobocards I must say works very well, and is probably the best of its kind.
Firasco
Interesting. This will most certainly help me in Latin class; I have been meaning to make flash cards, but have never gotten around to it because that would require getting index cards.
This little tool will definately help me, especially during exams.
Unionhawk
@matzahboy:
Excellent point.
Not everything needs to be virtual or electronic to work well. Flash card memorization being the clearest example.
Webran61
@ClaireHaeru: +1 For anki.
After five years, and making over 150000 cards, that would probably be the equivalent of several times my own weight in paper, yet I can synch it over to my phone and bring it along without breaking my back.
Not to mention that it keeps track of which cards to practice when, which would have become quite the task by now lol.
TheLostVikings
@matzahboy: I've been using electronic flashcards for almost five years now, and still get straight As, maybe you should try writing your own cards in a program such as Anki instead of just downloading some premade ones?
TheLostVikings
PrismaCards ([www.you2.de]) is a electronic flashcard system which provides different test methods, e.g. writing. If you are a friend of the learning method by Leitner and using learning boxes give it a try.
khdoelger
@ClaireHaeru: Another Anki user here. I used it to get my Security+ cert, without which, I wouldn't have landed this sweet job. If anybody has any IT related Anki decks to share, send an email to dwlh[at]pcliberty[dot]com
I don't see why one note wouldn't work for what you are doing. It doesn't work well for flash cards but for making source cards and note cards for research it is well suited. You can set up a onenote notebook so the pages are index card size. Each new source can be a new section with the source card as the first page (or card) and then do a new page (or even a subpage of the source card) for each notecard under that source. Then you can move or copy things as needed.
SilvanaOrestes