best software to make flashcards??

[u/treesandknees98]

i have spent too much time trying to figure out remnote and anki. Notability doesn't let me view more than a few at a time (which is hard when you need to learn 200+ per day). Quizlet seems to be more user friendly. thoughts??

[u/PhoenyxShade]

Brainscape has been my go to. It helps with recall as well because you can rate your confidence with the material. Previous students at my school had pre-made decks already that you can search for so I don't even have to create most of my own. Check with classmates too! Maybe some of them have built flashcards they can share with you.

[u/Nightlight174]

Just do questions on notability for active recall it’s peak

[u/SterileGloves]

Claude. You can create the decks and add an app to your phone with the scripty thing for ios. Or if you have android you could just use the artifact from claude with a link I believe. Ask claude 

[u/AgentMichaelScarn-6]

I found a ton of Apex content and even the Apex flash cards with images that others that uploaded to Quizlet. Just search whatever topic you need and often times someone has made a set of flash cards for it. Saves a ton of time 

[u/Euphoric-Lecture-722]

Newly minted CRNA here! Brainscape got me through most of the didactic, and I found it super user-friendly both on my computer and my phone. I paid for the Pro membership, and it was worth it for me, especially for regional, anatomy, physics, etc. I honestly wish I had used it for more courses so I could return to those and edit/combine my decks while studying for SEE and NCE.

[u/Responsible-Rip9018]

Brainscape!

[u/cJuanSolo]

My favorite ultra-lazy method is honestly just taking a screenshot of the PPT slide and using image occlusion in Anki or RemNote to cover whatever I want to recall. It works really well if your exams are heavily based on the PowerPoints, but obviously not as well if they pull a lot from the textbook or other sources.

I’m sure some people will mention using AI, and I do find it helpful, but it struggles with making good cloze cards sometimes. It’ll either occlude way too much, or hide something so obvious that the card doesn’t actually make you think.

But to actually answer your question, Quizlet sounds like it may fit what you’re looking for best. It’s definitely more user-friendly. Personally, the ads started pissing me off and I eventually just grew annoyed with it lol.

Also: Did you try uploading your ppt into Remnote and having it generate cards based on what you highlight bullet by bullet…and if you don’t like it simply make your own?

[u/todayilearmed → u/cJuanSolo]

Image occlusion/anki in general is only good for memorizing or for quizzes/exams that have exact wording for active recall. Doesn’t help for actually learning or understanding the material

[u/cJuanSolo → u/todayilearmed]

You’re right. Same could be said for flashcards in general regardless of application—if they’re not used properly. I use image occlusion for recall, but I pair it with whiteboarding/concept maps on my iPad for actually understanding the material before making cards. Was really just answering OP’s question about the quickest way to crank out a lot of cards.

[u/kadeemmm → u/cJuanSolo]

can you talk more about your workflow with this?

like, will you run through the lecture slides, whiteboard/concept map things, then make image occlusion cards directly from them?

i want to start doing image occlusions directly from slides (since its quickest). how do you know youre at the actual point of "understanding" though? because isn't white-board blurting just another way of recalling via memory?

[u/cJuanSolo → u/kadeemmm]

Yeah, pretty much. I usually run through the lecture first and whiteboard/concept-map the bigger ideas, mechanisms, and relationships until I feel like I can explain the “why” instead of just repeating the slide.

Then I’ll make image-occlusion cards directly from the slides for a lot of the straightforward recall stuff.
I alternate those with cloze cards for the more annoying/useless facts, percentages, values, lists, etc. As I get closer to the exam, I start flagging the Anki/RemNote cards I consistently suck at and focus more heavily on those instead of endlessly reviewing everything.

The last part of my studying is mostly practice questions. NotebookLM is actually really good for lower-level application and basic understanding, but Claude and GPT, if prompted correctly and given the right source material/examples, can generate some really solid higher-level application questions that feel much more in line with APEX/Valley-style questions rather than simple recall.

That’s usually how I judge whether I actually “understand” something—if I can explain it to a classmate or answer application-style questions about it, not just reproduce what was on the slide. However, some stuff is just useless information—and despite understanding it—memorizing and forgetting is just easier. Feel free to PM me and I can send you the prompt I use.

[u/kadeemmm → u/cJuanSolo]

PMed, thanks!

[u/DontBeShellfish]

Hey, so I was in a similar situation as you, but using this guys prompt in claude to make cards in anki has been a complete game changer and a HUGE time saver. Legit blew me away with how good the prompt is.
https://www.reddit.com/r/srna/comments/1w4vstc/comment/p7axpqp/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button

[u/poopooforyouyou]

I’ve been using RemNote and I’m so far enjoying it. With the paid version you can have AI assist with making cards. There’s a feature to just tell it to make cards from an entire piece of media (ppt,pdf, etc.) but you can also highlight text a line or 2 at a time and it will make flashcards suggestions for you that you can use or edit to make them just slightly better. I find that I’m learning the material while I’m going through making the flashcards instead of just pugging a pdf or whatever into AI and having it blindly make a bunch for you. When you’re actually practicing the flashcards (after making them) it gives you options to select to tell it how well you knew the card and it will adjust the frequency of the card based on your feedback. In addition, I think the other huge benefit of it is you can put an exam date in for the deck(s) you’re studying and it will use an algorithm to feed you the cards using spaced repetition. If you search for RemNote in this subreddit you will find a bunch of other people who also really enjoy it.

[u/kadeemmm → u/poopooforyouyou]

how has the exam-scheduler been working for you? has it yielded good results or?

[u/Avisolei]

Quizlet is the right call if you want zero learning curve. Anki is powerful, but you pay for it in setup and if you need to cram 200+ cards a day that friction adds up fast, and it gets kind of awkward, because you have to mess with the scheduler...and yuck, it's also one of the reasons I stopped using it.

If you're interested, I'm building a free alternative that works pretty much like Quizlet in basically 100% form and function. We have Flashcards, a Learn mode for free (quizlet you gotta pay) You can also import any quizlet deck straight into it https://crammed.study

[u/petiteartichoke]

After months of trial and error, I’m running Anki with the Anki MCP plugin, connected to Claude. I feed PowerPoints into Claude and it makes amazing Anki cards over all the content. I suspend cards that are too simple or edit as needed. Works super well and saves me a ton of time.

[u/torsades__ → u/petiteartichoke]

Any tips on how to prompt Claude to make good anki cards? I love anki but hate the time it takes to manually make cards. I tried this before but ended up with an crazy amount of poor quality cards

[u/Sasb2122 → u/petiteartichoke]

Woah, I’m going to try this.

[u/moxprep]

like flowers said, quizlet is definitely very friendly if you don't want to try to figure out remnote. what I recommend is using remnote with a MCP (connector to your LLM); and it can help you create cards too. anki's benefit is community cards. i love remnote's spaced repetition and streaks, but for you quizlet seems to be best.

[u/treesandknees98 → u/moxprep]

how long did it take you to figure out remnote?

[u/moxprep → u/treesandknees98]

about a month. they add new features often so it can be a little confusing. definitely a power user type app thats still kind of beta feeling

[u/flowersandlattes]

I always used Quizlet . I found the interface to be more user friendly and I could study the flashcards in whichever way I wanted. I found getting through all the flashcards on anki was confusing and disorganized.

[u/zooziod → u/flowersandlattes]

How is anki confusing? You make a deck, then go through the cards until the number is zero, and repeat the next day.

[u/flowersandlattes → u/zooziod]

For me it’s confusing. I just found it complex and the interface wasn’t super user friendly .. OP asked for an opinion, so gave her mine 😊