Study mode: quizzes and flashcards that actually stick

Reading a clear explanation feels like learning. It's a pleasant feeling, and it's mostly a trap. The real test isn't whether the page made sense while you were looking at it — it's whether you can pull the idea back out a day later, with the page closed. That second thing is a different skill, and it's the one study mode is built to train.

The trick decades of research keep pointing to is active recall: don't reread, retrieve. Every time you drag an answer out of your own memory, you make it easier to find next time. Study mode turns any chat with Mark into exactly that kind of practice.

From explanation to practice

Once Mark has walked you through something, you don't have to leave to study it. From that same conversation, it can spin up a short quiz or a set of flashcards built on what you just covered. The material you're testing on is the material you were actually trying to learn — no separate setup, no copying things into another app.

That tight loop matters. Understanding and remembering usually get split across different tools and different sittings, and the remembering half quietly gets skipped. Keeping both in one place makes it natural to do the part that actually makes things stick.

Quizzes that close the loop

A quiz is only useful if it does something when you're wrong. Study mode is built around the feedback, not the score:

• Instant feedback — you find out right away whether you had it, while the reasoning is still fresh.
• Retry what you missed — focus your next pass on the questions you actually got wrong, not the ones you already know.
• Explanations on the spot — a wrong answer is a chance to re-learn, not just a red mark.

Flashcards you can actually drill

For raw recall — terms, definitions, the facts that simply have to be in your head — flashcards are hard to beat, and study mode gives you a deck you can really work:

• Shuffle the order so you're learning the answer, not the position in the stack.
• Drill the full set in a focused pass when you want repetition.
• Download your cards so they're yours to review anywhere, on your own time.

Learn it, then make it stick

Study mode is the natural next step after a good explanation. Understand the idea with Mark, then prove to yourself that it's landed before you move on — that's the whole arc, and it's the difference between "I saw that once" and "I know that."

Next time Mark explains something you actually need to keep, ask it to quiz you on it. A few minutes of recall now saves you relearning it from scratch later.