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How to add custom hints to flashcards

Help with customizing your flashcard sets.

Abheek Pandoh avatar
Written by Abheek Pandoh
Updated over a week ago

Looking to provide a boost to users studying your flashcard sets? Read on to learn how to add custom hints to your terms and definitions to help you (or whoever is studying your set) find the right answer!

Note: Currently, adding customized hints to flashcards is only available on the Plus or Ultra plans.

Adding customized hints

  1. Navigate to the flashcard set you want to add your custom hints to and click the edit button, if you're not already editing your set.

  2. Scroll to the flashcard you want to add your hints to and click into the text box where you write your term or definition.

  3. Click on the "Add custom hints" button that appears.

  4. You'll now see a popup that allows you to create your custom hints for the flashcard's term and/or definition.

    adding custom hints to flashcards

  5. Enter your custom hints and click "Save." Your new hints will now appear in our study modes! To use a hint when studying, simply click on the "Get a hint" button.

Tip: You can also see which of your flashcards have custom hints when editing a term or definition because the "Add multiple choice options" button will now read "Custom hints on." To edit your hints, just click on the "Custom hints on" button!


On the app?

  1. From your Library, open your flashcard set if you're not there already.

  2. Click the pencil icon in the top right to edit your set.

  3. Click on one of your terms.

  4. Scroll over to find the lightbulb icon to add custom audio to your terms and/or definitions.

If you have any more questions, please feel free to reach out to our team using the built-in support chat.

How do I speak with the team?

Here's how to contact the team via our support chat:

  1. After viewing an article (like this one) in our help center popup, press the back button in the top left of the popup.

  2. Now that you've navigated back to the help screen, you can message us directly via the "Send us a message" button at the bottom of the popup:

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