Video to Flashcards
Turn a lecture or tutorial into a deck you can actually revise from.
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Why use this Video to Flashcards
Questions, not restatements
Each card front is something you could be asked in an exam. A card that repeats the slide teaches nothing.
Answers in the source's terms
The back answers in the words the speaker used, so what you memorise matches what you will be marked on.
Every card is sourced
Cards carry the timestamp they came from. When one does not make sense, the explanation is one click away.
Anki and Quizlet
Export the deck into the tool you already revise in, or keep it here and drill in the browser.
Who it is for
Exam revision
Convert the semester's recorded lectures into decks in an afternoon instead of a weekend.
Certification study
Turn a nine-hour course into cards, then drill the four chapters you keep getting wrong.
Teaching
Generate a first draft of a quiz from your own recording and edit it down.
How to use Video to Flashcards
- 01
Paste a lecture or tutorial
Any video where somebody explains something works well. Recorded lectures are the sweet spot.
- 02
Review the generated cards
Cut what you already know, reword anything unclear. Each card links back to its moment in the video.
- 03
Export to your review app
Anki, Quizlet or plain CSV.
Flashcards from the lecture, not from a blank page
Making flashcards is the part of studying everyone skips, because it is tedious and it happens before any of the actual learning. Generating them from the recording removes that barrier entirely.
Cards are built from what was actually said in the video, with each one tied to the moment it came from. When a card does not make sense, you can go back and hear the explanation again instead of guessing.
Works with the tools you already study in
Export to Anki or Quizlet and keep whatever review system you already use. There is no point building another spaced-repetition app — the good ones exist.
Plain CSV export is there too, for anything that reads a two-column file.
Edit before you commit
Generated cards are a starting point, not a finished deck. You can drop the ones that are too easy, reword the ones that are ambiguous, and keep what is genuinely worth remembering.
A deck of thirty cards you actually reviewed beats two hundred you abandoned.
What makes a card worth keeping
The cards worth keeping test one fact with one unambiguous answer. Cards that ask you to recall a whole paragraph are not flashcards, they are homework, and you will skip them on the third review and then stop opening the deck.
Generated cards err toward specificity for that reason: definitions, relationships, numbers, the distinction between two things that are easy to confuse. Those are what spaced repetition is actually good at.
It is also worth cutting anything you already know. The temptation is to keep every card because deleting feels like losing work, but a deck padded with material you have already internalised makes every review session longer and less useful, and that is how decks get abandoned.
Frequently asked questions
Make a deck from a video
Paste a lecture or tutorial link and the cards come back sourced.
Generate flashcards