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The study platform that tests you on your own notes, and spaces the reviews on a schedule you can see.

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Example path · Krebs cycle3 steps
  • Overview lecture, 12 min videoTimestamped
  • Reaction-by-reaction chapterPDF
  • Your notes on both, turned into cardsRecall

Your notes are the deck

Write Vocab: and your word. Then write Def: and what it means. Do that five or more times and your note turns into flashcards.

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Why it is built this way

Retrieval beats rereading

Rereading feels fluent and predicts almost nothing. Producing the answer from memory is what leaves a trace.

Roediger & Karpicke, 2006

Spacing beats massing

The same minutes spread across days outperform the same minutes in one sitting, and the advantage grows with the delay.

Cepeda et al., 2006

Generation beats provision

A word you generate is remembered better than the same word handed to you. Write the answer yourself and it stays; the cards you author count toward progress, the imported ones do not until you re-explain them.

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Reading feels productive.

Every other tool will happily show you the answer. That is the moment the work stops. Quad Encode puts the prompt up on its own and waits, and the answer it shows you is the one you wrote when you understood it, not a stranger's.

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Hands-on labs

The exam asks you to do it. So does this.

Four certification paths come with a real Linux machine. Save the path and it boots on your dashboard, in your own browser. You type commands into it and it answers, because it is a real kernel rather than a script that recognises what you typed. Press Verify and it names the part you have not done yet.

Read the auth log and tell a brute force apart from someone mistyping.

What the machine printed

quadlab# grep "Failed password" /var/log/auth.log | awk '{print $(NF-3)}' | sort | uniq -c
      2 198.51.100.7
     12 203.0.113.42
quadlab# grep "Accepted password" /var/log/auth.log
Aug 20 09:14:44 web1 sshd[2240]: Accepted password for deploy from 203.0.113.42 port 51100 ssh2
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  • Free, and the labs are on every plan

    Reading any path costs nothing and needs no account. The labs come with the path once you save it, and an account is free. Pro raises the subject, path and import ceilings, never the labs.

  • Runs in the tab, not on a server

    An x86 emulator compiled to WebAssembly boots a real Linux kernel on your own machine. No install, no VM, no cloud account, and no route off the box.

  • Usable on a phone

    A key bar above the prompt puts the pipe, the slash, the quotes and the braces one tap away, so you can work through a lab on the bus.

Instant feedback Similar terms

Five ways to practice. One of them grades.

Quiz arcade runs on the box schedule and writes to it, the same as review. The other four do not, so you can drill a weak patch as often as you like without moving what is due tomorrow.

Flashcard deck
Click or press Space to flip. Term on the front, pulled from your own notes.
Quiz arcade
Multiple choice from what is due right now, options shuffled every time. Right moves a card one box up, wrong sends it back to box 0.
60-second run
One minute on the clock, as many prompts as you can answer in it.
Similar terms
One term, two answers that read alike. Pick the one that belongs.
Match terms
Sixteen tiles face down. Turn two over at a time and pair the term with its definition.
On your phone

Keep it on your home screen.

Quad Encode installs straight from the browser, with nothing to download from an app store. It opens in its own window instead of a tab, which makes a quick set something you can do while the kettle boils.

iPhone in Safari
  1. 1Tap Share at the bottom of the screen
  2. 2Choose Add to Home Screen
Android in Chrome
  1. 1Open the three-dot menu
  2. 2Choose Install app

Needs a connection, the same as the site

Your first deck is ten pairs away.

Flashcards start at the fifth pair. Write the tenth and the note becomes a full deck: review, quizzes and matching open together.

Ten rather than three, because a review set is 5 cards. Ten pairs is two sets, so the schedule has something to space out instead of handing you everything at once.

cell-biology.md

  1. Nucleus

    Holds the cell's DNA and directs which genes are transcribed.

  2. Ribosome

    Reads messenger RNA and assembles the protein it codes for.

  3. Chloroplast

    Captures light energy and turns it into sugar in plant cells.

  4. Golgi apparatus

    Sorts and packages proteins for delivery elsewhere.

  5. Lysosome

    Breaks down worn-out parts and waste with digestive enzymes.

  6. Cytoskeleton

    Filaments that hold the cell's shape and move cargo around it.

  7. Plasma membrane

    Controls what crosses into and out of the cell.

  8. Endoplasmic reticulum

    Folds new proteins and builds the cell's lipids.

  9. Vacuole

    Stores water, nutrients and waste, and keeps plant cells firm.

  10. Mitochondria

    The organelle that produces most of a cell's ATP through respiration.