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Workflow
Editor tour
From a blank deck to published, step by step.
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What & why
You build decks in Deckberry’s web editor — no app needed. The flow is short: create the deck, fill in its details, add cards, preview it as a learner, and publish. Nothing is public until you say so, so you can take your time and come back later.
1. Create the deck
Start a new deck and give it a title. A new deck is private — that’s your draft. It stays private, visible only to you, until you deliberately publish it. There’s no separate “draft” status to manage: private is draft.
2. Fill in the details
Set the deck’s title, description, language, and category. These decide who finds your deck and whether they choose to study it, so treat them as part of the deck’s quality — see title & description and language & category. You can edit them any time.
3. Add cards
Add cards one at a time. For each, pick a type — start with Basic unless the material calls for Cloze, Rich Media, Reverse, or Multiple Choice — and fill in its fields. As you type, a live preview shows the card exactly as a learner will see it, so you catch a stray placeholder or a too-long answer before it ships. Cards are listed in order; you can reorder and edit them as you go.
Editing a published card creates a new version with a short changelog note, so learners can keep studying while your improvements roll out safely.
4. Preview as a learner
Before publishing, use Preview deck to step through your deck the way a learner will — one card at a time, flip to check the answer. This is the single best way to catch the problems you stopped seeing while writing: the two-fact card, the ambiguous front, the answer you can’t grade.
5. Publish
When you’re happy, press Publish — it flips the deck from private to public and it appears for learners in the app. Run the quick publish checklist first. Publishing is always a deliberate click; nothing goes live on its own, and you can update the deck later the same way.