OS X:Tools — Mental Case — Flash Cards — With iPhone Support

I have a con­stant struggle to mem­or­ise new con­tent and review mater­ial. After some research I decided to try using flash cards as a new tech­nique. Now I have some soft­ware to do this and its one of my favour­ite tools. Once I had decided to move into flash cards I looked into what free­ware was avail­able such as jMem­or­ize but it didn’t seem to do the things I wanted.

I finally pur­chased Mental Case from MacCoreMac for USD$25.00, or about GBP£15.00 (inc. VAT) and have been more than happy with it. Here is a quick look at the soft­ware and why I think its pretty and cool.

As you can see, I have been enter­ing the study notes into the sys­tem. When you select study, the screen blanks and the first part of the ques­tion is dis­played — some­thing like this:

and then the second part of the question:

Of couse, the con­tent can be any­thing. I have cre­ated les­sons that only have learn­ing mater­ial in it, and

thus I see a single flash card per topic with my Multicast study notes on each card.

You can change the dis­play a reas­on­able amount, I nor­mally use black/​white (but am using dif­fer­ent col­ours for this post).

It also cre­ates dif­fer­ent les­sons. If there are Folders of Notes that haven’t stud­ied, it will “cre­ate a les­son” for you. You can also set how many times you see the cards, and you can mark them as com­pleted etc. All the things that you would want to be able to do.

This is a really well thought out pro­gram, and seems to be sci­entific in their approach to cre­at­ing it.

iPhone Version

In the last couple of days¹ they have sub­mit­ted their iPhone ver­sion to the Apple Store and it should appear soon. This means that I can carry my flash cards wherever I am and review my study material.

The also have a spe­cial offer:

Mental Case for iPhone is almost here. To cel­eb­rate, we are giv­ing away Mental Case for Mac at the spe­cial price of $10. Mental Case for iPhone will be free, so that’s two apps for less than half the usual price!

Get in quick, because the offer is only avail­able to the first 500 people that enter the fol­low­ing coupon code when pur­chas­ing: CPN7646143480.

Check out the MacCoreMac web site to go and pur­chase your copy.

Conclusion

Flash cards are a study must have for me, and Mental Case is my choice. I hope you like it as well.

Footnotes

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