r/Anki • u/Alternative-Gap-4798 • 18h ago
Question anki flashcards
every week, i have 3-4 lecture classes to attend. an average slide count for each lecture slides is 35. how do you actually have the time to make flashcards???? do y'all use ai?? or just manually type everything. i also have labs, so i need to donprelabs evey single day so i dont have the time to actually make flashacrds at the end of every class, WHAT DO I DO
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u/Pale_Introduction998 16h ago
i have roughly 18-20h of lectures a week and i usually sit down when i get home, upload all slides from my ipad to google drive, open that on my 2nd monitor, and start working on it. it usually takes me between 1-4h for one lecture, but i also dont include everything (eg math lectures only make for a few cards with the most important formulas). i usually catch up on everything by sunday night. its very very time intensive but it guarantees i understand all of the lecture material and i believe my cards are higher quality and better attuned to my needs than ai cards. i dont bother reviewing the cards at home, i reserve that for commute times or during breakfast.
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u/rachaeltalcott 17h ago
For science classes, you really need to figure out what each professor thinks is important. Often this will be in the syllabus, or you can ask students who took the class recently.
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u/splifted nursing 17h ago
I made all of mine myself, but I also generally only had 1-2 classes at a time that were worth making cards for. I tried AI at the beginning but I kept fucking up the information so I went manual.
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u/Hibou_Garou languages 13h ago
I personally don’t trust AI enough to do things right. Even if I used it, I would have to go through and double check everything, which would defeat the purpose (I.e. saving time)
Consider making the cards to be a part of the learning process.
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u/Realistic-Lack-6740 17h ago
Record the lecture, use AI to transcribe it and then paste the lecture into an AI to make flashcards.
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u/silverneverspoon 15h ago
I use AI to make all of my cloze cards and image occlusion cards, straight from the PowerPoint slides and lecture transcript
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u/Intelligent_Oil720 10h ago
if u got material such as pdfs or PowerPoints just upload it to gemini notebook and prompt it to make flashcards and say it has to be a .txt file
then u just import that .txt file into anki then ur done. saves me a lot of time but i need to correct or delete some card because it can sometimes be too thorough
its output depends on how good ur prompt is so there is that
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u/macorrac 1h ago
hi! i was running into the same problem a few days ago and I'm someone that uses a lot of AI (codex / claude code) to create cards for me so that I can just focus on the learning - i made this MCP (basically a connector for AI to actually use anki for you) so that it manages all the cards for you as long as you paste in the lecture / resource.
https://github.com/maibrandon/anki-agent
to use it, just ask your AI agent (codex or claude code) to use it with the link. everything is free and i made it for this exact problem!
the github repository also contains a default master prompt, but if you find that it doesn't perfectly suit your case then just tell the AI agent to change it towards the direction that you desire instead
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u/rottentonk 4h ago
Yes and no. I use exercises from the books in library. I use AI for consulting how to solve them and sometimes to give format in HTML to the cards. It depends on how you study. Some people will said that not use AI because it has no quality in flags cards, but for really objective stuff like chemistry can help a lot. Besides that make your own flash cards so you can flow and recall better.
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u/Jcrin 17h ago
i've found image occlusion cards can be done pretty quickly by screenshotting the slides and pasting from clipboard. if its possible i try to make them during class, in a library, wherever its possible. i don't know ur schedule so idk how to inform you on making time for them.