Core Concepts

Interactive Types

Every interactive type in Interact explained: flashcards, cloze deletions, multiple choice quizzes, typed answers, and image occlusion exercises.

Different material calls for different practice. Interact gives you five interactive types, and every one of them plugs into the same spaced repetition system.

Flashcards

A front and a back. You read the front, recall the answer, flip, and grade yourself. Flashcards are the workhorse: fast to make, flexible, and good for almost anything. Best for explanations, definitions, and "what is X?" questions.

Clozes

A sentence with a word or phrase hidden. You pick the missing piece from a set of options. Because the answer lives inside real context, clozes are excellent for language learning, terminology, and remembering exact phrasing.

A Spanish cloze exercise with a blank to fill in
A cloze hides a word and asks you to fill in the blank.

Quizzes

Multiple choice with one correct answer. The wrong options do real work here: a good quiz makes you distinguish the right answer from plausible near-misses, which is exactly the skill exams test.

An astronomy multiple choice quiz question
Quizzes are classic multiple choice with keyboard shortcuts.

Typed answers

A sentence with a blank you fill by typing. No options, no recognition, just pure recall. These are the most demanding type and the most powerful signal that you actually know something. Grading is forgiving of small typos.

A music theory typed-answer exercise
Typed answers ask for pure recall, no options to lean on.

Image occlusion

Upload an image and mask regions of it. Reviews hide the masked areas and ask you to recall what's underneath. Perfect for diagrams, maps, anatomy, interfaces, and anything visual. See the Image Occlusion guide.

An image occlusion with masked planet labels on a solar system diagram
Image occlusions mask regions of an image for visual recall.

Which type should you use?

  • Exact facts and numbers: typed answers or clozes
  • Explanations and concepts: flashcards
  • Tricky distinctions: quizzes
  • Anything visual: image occlusion

You don't have to choose in advance. The AI generator mixes types automatically, and you can always convert an idea into a different type by hand when a review tells you the format isn't working.