What's new in July 2026

Jul 22 to 31 · 9 new features

1. 30Jul · Thu

   Add mock boards to your study plan

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     Add unscheduled mock board sittings to any plan day. more ▾less ▴

     By student request, you can now add a mock board sitting to any day of your study plan. Shorter timelines don't schedule all 5 mocks automatically — now the + on any calendar day lists the sittings you haven't taken yet, and tapping one puts it on that day. Finish it under Mock Boards and the calendar ticks it off by itself.

   Three fixes you reported

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     Optionally show each choice's explanation inside the choice itself. more ▾less ▴

     You can now have each answer choice carry its own explanation, inside the choice, instead of all of them listed below the question. It is off by default, so nothing changes unless you turn it on in Settings.

   ALS joins the neuro topics

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     ALS is now its own NP4 topic with 56 questions. more ▾less ▴

     A student asked why there was no Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis topic, and there genuinely was not one — no topic, no questions, no flashcards, while Myasthenia Gravis had 100 items and Guillain-Barré 95. The boards test the three against each other on how the weakness starts, which direction it spreads, whether sensation is involved, and whether it reverses. ALS is now its own topic under NP4 with 56 questions covering exactly that, plus breathing and swallowing care through to end-of-life.

2. 28Jul · Tue

   Stopwatch mode and study hours in the timer

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     The study timer now has a count-up stopwatch mode. more ▾less ▴

     By student request, the study timer can now count up as well as down. Flip it to Stopwatch mode and it times an open-ended study session for as long as you keep going — pause and pick it back up whenever you like, and it keeps counting while you move between pages.

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     The timer tallies your study hours across the week. more ▾less ▴

     The timer also keeps track of your study hours now, for accountability: finished focus sprints and stopwatch sessions add up in a Today and past-7-days view inside the timer panel, with a small bar for each day. Break time never counts, and the log stays on your device.

3. 27Jul · Mon

   Hematology gets its own topic

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     Hematology now has its own topic under NP3. more ▾less ▴

     Hematology now has its own Med-Surg topic. Look for Hematologic Disorders under NP3 in Practice: 100 new questions covering iron deficiency, B12 and pernicious anemia, anemia of chronic kidney disease, aplastic anemia, sickle cell, thalassemia, G6PD, immune thrombocytopenia, hemophilia, DIC, and blood transfusion and its reactions. Until now this content was spread across Laboratory Values, Chronic Kidney Disease, and Oncology, with no single place to drill it.

   A pomodoro timer for study sprints

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     A pomodoro timer now lives on every study page. more ▾less ▴

     By popular request: a small timer now sits at the bottom right of every study page. It runs the classic pomodoro rhythm — a focused sprint, then a short break, with a longer break after every fourth sprint — and it keeps counting while you move between pages, so you can practice, review flashcards, or read a cram sheet inside one sprint.

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     Sprint and break lengths are fully customizable. more ▾less ▴

     Every length is yours to change: the sprint, both breaks, and how many sprints come before the long break. You can also have the next sprint start by itself, and a soft chime tells you when one ends — both optional. Your settings stay on this device.

4. 25Jul · Sat

   The Practice page now answers "what should I drill next?"

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     Filter the topic list by Needs work, Not started, or Flagged. more ▾less ▴

     The topic list has filter chips across the top — All topics, Needs work, Not started, and Flagged — each with a live count, and Needs work and Flagged sort your weakest first. The page used to show you the whole syllabus and leave the choosing to you.

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     Redo a single topic's misses in one tap. more ▾less ▴

     Every topic you have missed something in now carries a "Redo" shortcut that starts a set of just those misses. Tapping the topic itself still serves questions you have not seen yet.

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     Search the Practice page by topic name. more ▾less ▴

     There is a search box on the Practice page now, so you can type "diabetes" or "triage" and go straight there instead of guessing which of the six sections owns it.

5. 22Jul · Wed

   Smoother writing in the cram-sheet reader, plus PDF downloads

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     Download any cram sheet as a personalized PDF. more ▾less ▴

     Every cram sheet now has a PDF download button in the reader. Your copy is personalized — your name appears on every page — so you can study offline or print it.

   Topic search and finish times, from your suggestions

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     Search topics by name when building a custom set. more ▾less ▴

     The custom practice builder now has a search box — type any topic (like "diabetes" or "triage") to jump straight to it instead of scrolling through every section. The flashcards custom-session builder got the same search.

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     Completed plan tasks now show when you finished them. more ▾less ▴

     Your Study Plan now remembers when you finish each assignment — tap a completed task to see the date and time under its Done tag. Assignments finished before today won't show a time, since we only started recording it now.