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Turn your notes into Anki flashcards with AI

Upload a lecture PDF, slide deck, document or photo of handwritten notes. DeckOwl drafts question-and-answer cards you can review, study with spaced repetition, and export to Anki on the Plus plan.

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Making Anki flashcards from your own material

Most students already have the material: a lecture PDF, a slide deck, or photos of handwritten notes. The slow part is turning that into cards, which is why many people searching for making Anki flashcards using Gemini want a faster route. DeckOwl is a separate tool from Gemini, but it works the same way at the start: you give it your source material and it drafts the cards.

Use one fact per card so you can grade yourself honestly.
Keep answers short, ideally a term, phrase or single sentence.
Review the generated cards once before your first study session.
Export to Anki on Plus if you want to keep studying in the Anki app.

Example cell biology flashcards for practice

Which organelle produces most of a cell's ATP?The mitochondrion, through cellular respiration.

What is the function of ribosomes?They build proteins by translating messenger RNA into a chain of amino acids.

What is osmosis?The net movement of water across a selectively permeable membrane toward the side with higher solute concentration.

What does the Golgi apparatus do?It modifies, sorts and packages proteins and lipids for transport within or out of the cell.

Why do cell membranes form a phospholipid bilayer?Phospholipids have hydrophilic heads and hydrophobic tails, so they arrange into two layers with heads facing water on both sides.

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Cards from your own files

Upload PDF, DOCX, PPTX, plain text or images. Photos of pages are read with text recognition.

Spaced repetition built in

Study in the browser with a schedule that brings back cards just before you are likely to forget them.

Export to Anki

Plus includes Anki export, along with PDF, DOCX and CSV export, so your deck can move into the app you already use.

How it works

Upload your material

Add a PDF, slides, notes or photos of a textbook page. No credit card is needed to start.

Review the draft cards

Check each question and answer, edit anything unclear, and remove cards that test more than one idea.

Study or export

Study in the browser with spaced repetition, or export the deck to Anki on the Plus plan.

Good Anki decks come from editing, not just generating. Check that each card asks one thing, that the answer is short enough to recall, and that nothing important from the source is missing. Then study with spaced repetition so the cards you miss come back sooner.

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Frequently asked questions

How many flashcards should I make for one lecture?

Aim for one card per distinct term or fact, so a dense lecture may produce a few dozen cards. Split any card that tests two ideas at once.

What makes a good Anki flashcard?

Write one question per card with an answer you can recall in a few seconds. Avoid copying whole paragraphs onto the back, because long answers are hard to check against your own recall.

Can I export my flashcards to Anki?

Yes, on the Plus plan at $39/year or $7.99/month, which includes Anki and CSV export. The free plan lets you study in the browser but does not include exports.

Do I need a credit card to try it?

No. You can start on the free plan, which includes 3 generations per month and browser study, without adding a credit card.

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