Inside the feed: how studying becomes a scroll

Open Encodr and the default screen isn't a deck list or a "start session" button - it's a feed. You scroll, a card appears, you answer it, the next one loads. It's a deliberately familiar interaction, borrowed from an interface you already know how to use dozens of times a day, applied to something you're trying to actually remember instead of just consume.

Mixed card types, one continuous scroll

A feed session mixes card types as it goes - multiple choice, true/false, typed answer, flip cards - rather than grouping by type or by topic. This isn't cosmetic variety; it forces retrieval through slightly different mental paths card to card, which is closer to how you'll actually be asked to recall the material later (an exam doesn't warn you what format the next question takes either). Citations sit inline in the card itself when a fact needs one, so you can check the source without leaving the scroll.

No timers, no autoplay

The feed doesn't count down and doesn't advance on its own. Early study-app designs (including earlier versions of this one) experimented with both, and they consistently pushed people toward answering fast instead of answering right - the opposite of what actual retrieval practice is supposed to train. A flip card only advances when you tap to reveal and confirm; nothing else on the scroll times you.

Why a scroll instead of a session

A session-based app is a decision every time you open it - pick a deck, set a length, commit to finishing it. A feed has no start or end to negotiate with; you open it, one card appears, and stopping after three is just as valid as stopping after thirty. That lower threshold to open the app at all is what makes the ten minutes waiting for a bus into real study time instead of dead time, which matters more for consistency than any single session's length does. See studying a 1,000-card deck without burning out for how this plays out on a genuinely large deck, and what spaced repetition actually does for what decides which card shows up next in the scroll.

What the feed is pulling from

The feed isn't studying one deck in isolation - it pulls from whatever classes you've turned on, mixing cards from different subjects in the same scroll if you have more than one active. That's a deliberate default, not a limitation: see curated classes vs. building your own deck for how the feed handles a mix of curated and personal decks together.