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Mental Case reinvents the flash card

by Sang Tang (RSS feed) on Aug 15th, 2009


Education is deeply imbued in the Apple DNA. In Apple's early days, the education market served as a base from which it would grow from and, in the process, introduce many of us to personal computing as well as a new way of learning.

Similarly, the iPhone has the potential to change the dynamics of learning. The device's multi-touch display has not only reinvented and breathed new life into apps that had previously lived on other platforms, but has also spurred the creation of a new class of learning apps.

One of these apps is Mental Case, a flash card application available on both Mac OS X and the iPhone/iPod touch. At its very core, Mental Case's main goal is to facilitate the flash card creation and studying process.

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Tags: app review, AppReview, back to school, BackToSchool, education, flash cards, FlashCards, iphone, ipod touch, IpodTouch, learning, mac, students, teaching

Filed under: Software, Education, Beta Beat

Be a Mental Case

by Mat Lu (RSS feed) on Mar 15th, 2007



Mental Case is an interesting new application that brings a Mac twist to flash card memorization. As the developer notes: "all you do is gather tidbits of information in 'mental notes'. Enter some text, drop in an image, take a screen shot, or even snap a picture with your iSight. Mental Case schedules the note to reappear at future date."

Basically, you create the equivalent of flash cards in sets called "Cases." Then at scheduled intervals (which you can adjust) Mental Case will ask you if you have time to run through one of your cases. If so, it will display the cards with a rotating cube effect (though this is customizable in the preferences). This looks like a great way to learn the sorts of things one learns with flash cards (e.g. simple facts, languages, etc.). I like the idea of having it prompt me while I'm using my Mac (which is to say about 50% of my waking hours), since that way I don't have to formulate a specific intention to run through the cards. As the developer says: it's like "RSS for you head."

Mental Case is in beta right now and a free download, but it will become commercial at some point.

[Via MacNN]

Tags: flash card, flashcard, Flashcards, Mental Case, MentalCase

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