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OpenCards 1.0.2


OpenCards Flashcard learning extension for OpenOffice Impress

System Requirememts
Mac OS X
Download Details
Company Holger Brandl
Version 1.0.2
Post Date May 02, 2009
License Freeware
File Size 2.5 MB
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OpenCards 1.0.2


Flashcard learning extension for OpenOffice Impress
The basic idea of OpenCards is to use slide-titles as flashcard fronts and the slide contents as their backs.

Being based on state-of-the-art scheduling and memorization algorithms OpenCards will help you to learn any set of flashcards.

Basically OpenCards gives you any freedom you enjoy when creating PowerPoint- or OpenOffice Impress-slides. OpenCards just adds all functionality which turn any existing Impress/Powerpoint presentation into flashcards.

OpenCards:
· is easy to use: Just create flashcards as you're used to create Impress-slides
· is well supported: There are already millions of freely available flashcard-sets
· allows to learn any Impress/Powerpoint-file as flashcard-set without conversion
· runs on every major operating system and is free and OpenSource
· will reduce your memorization efforts by implementing state-of-the-art methods for spaced repetition

NOTE: OpenCards is licensed and distributed under the terms of the BSD License.

Main features of OpenCards:

  • Absolutely free and open source! No spyware or ads.
  • Deployed as OpenOffice extension, which comes along with nifty features like auto-updating (install once and keep up to date automatically)
  • Create flashcards like you're used to create slides for presentations
  • Allows to use any Impress/Powerpoint-file as flashcard-set without any conversion
  • Superior flashcard-file management
  • Intelligent learning algorithms that know when you should review which flashcards.
  • Use sound, tables, animations, videos, formulas, Unicode, nice background images and much more for your flashcards
  • 100% support for Powerpoint-presentations, based on the OpenOffice import filter
  • Runs with Windows, Linux, MacOS and any other operating system, which OpenOffice is supporting
  • Customize the learning procedure based on you individual learning habits.
  • Graphical visualization of learning success
  • Export your flashcards to different file formats like PDF, Flash, PowerPoint and many others
  • Three-sided cards
  • SVG import, Latex support,vocalized cards


    Requirements of OpenCards:

  • Java runtime environment 5.0 or later
  • OpenOffice 2.3 or later