Now that you’ve created a few cards, it’s time to learn and review them. Mochi uses spaced repetition to help you remember information efficiently over time. Instead of showing you everything every day, it schedules each card at increasing intervals based on how well you remember it.
Introduction
Before we begin, it helps to understand the basic card statuses in Mochi:
New — cards you’ve created or imported but have not been reviewed yet.
Learned — cards that have been added to the schedule and will appear in regular reviews.
Archived — cards that have been manually removed from the review system.
Mochi uses a two-step review process:
Learn phase
Check new cards and decide when they’re ready to join your review schedule.
Review phase
Once a card is learned, it appears in your normal spaced repetition reviews.
This double-review process helps make sure the information is well established before it moves onto longer-term scheduling.
Step 1: Learning new cards
Open the deck you created earlier.
Click the New cards button at the top right.
Mochi will show you cards that were recently added to the deck.
For each card, you’ll see two buttons:
Add to reviews (SPACE) — add the card to your review schedule
Again (F) — skip the card for now and see it again shortly
Use Add to reviews when you feel comfortable with the material. If something still feels unfamiliar, choose Again to take another look before committing it to the schedule.
You can also use the () and () buttons to move backward or forward through the queue.
Once you’ve added a card to reviews, it becomes learned and will appear in your regular review session.
Step 2: Review learned cards
After you’ve finished learning your new cards, you can begin your regular reviews. If you're still on the "New cards" screen, you'll see a button to continue with reviews. If not:
Open the same deck if it's not already opened.
Click the Review button.
Mochi will show you any learned cards that are due (including the ones you just added).
For each card:
Look at the front of the card and try to recall the answer.
Reveal the back and choose one of the two ratings:
Forgot — you couldn’t recall the information.
Remembered — you successfully recalled it.
Based on your answer, Mochi will:
Adjust the interval (how long until the next review).
Decide whether to show the card again soon in the same session.
Over time, cards you remember consistently will appear less often, giving you more room to focus on new or difficult material.
Forgot → shorter interval; the card reappears sooner.
Remembered → longer interval; the card is scheduled further out.
Re-reviews
If you forget a card during the review phase, Mochi doesn’t immediately reset its progress. Instead, it moves the card into a re-review queue, which gives you another chance to recall the information.
Forget once → the card enters re-review.
Forget again during re-review → the card’s interval is reset and the card begins relearning.
Remember during re-review → the card keeps a short interval and continues normally.
Re-reviews ensure that difficult material gets extra reinforcement before the final interval is set.
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