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Card types
Basic
The workhorse question-and-answer card.
What & why
A Basic card is a question on the front and its answer on the back. It’s the plainest type Deckberry has, and it’s the one most good decks are mostly made of — vocabulary, definitions, dates, formulas, facts. When you’re unsure which type to use, this is the answer.
Two fields, nothing to configure: front (the question) and back (the answer). Both accept light Markdown, so you can bold the key part or add an example sentence in italics.
The rule
One question on the front, one answer on the back. Keep the back short enough to grade in a glance.
Bad → good
A real entry from the English Irregular Verbs catalog deck. Tap a card to reveal the answer.
A paragraph on the back — too much to grade as pass or fail.
The forms, plus one short example. Answerable in a breath.
When it applies
Use Basic whenever the material is a straight question and answer — which is most of the time. Reach for another type only when the shape demands it: Cloze when the sentence around a blank teaches the meaning, Rich media when an image is the question.
Keep each card to one fact and phrase the front as a real question, not a heading. Those two habits do more for a Basic deck than any other type ever will.