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Flashcard maker
Make flashcards out of your own notes, slides or PDFs instead of typing each one by hand, then grade yourself on them until the ones you keep missing stop coming back wrong.
Part of ClarityStudy: Quizzes & flashcards
How to do it in ClarityStudy
- Upload what you want flashcards from into ClarityStudy: lecture notes, a slide deck, a document, or a PDF.
- Starting from printed pages rather than a file? Scan them in the app: several photographed pages become one document you can generate from.
- Give ClarityStudy a moment to read the file. It lists the topics inside, and the file becomes available to generate from once that pass has finished.
- Generate cards for one topic at a time, so a long chapter does not turn into hundreds of cards at once.
- Work through the deck and mark each card known or not known as you go.
- Cards marked not known keep coming back; cards you have down drop out of the rotation.
Built from what you uploaded
A flashcard here is not a fill-in-the-blank template applied to a word list. ClarityStudy reads the document you give it (notes, a slide deck, a PDF, or pages you scanned in the app), works out the topics inside, and writes cards from that specific material: the terms and definitions in your own slides, not a generic deck someone else made for the same subject. That generation happens inside the app once you add a file, so there is nothing to fill in on this page; making a set starts with opening ClarityStudy, uploading the source, and picking a topic to generate cards from.
Why a long file still goes one topic at a time
ClarityStudy lists the topics in a file before generating anything, so a long chapter does not have to be taken all at once. You pick the section you are actually working on, get a deck for that stretch of the material, and come back for the next section once you have it down. A file only becomes available to generate from after that reading pass has finished, which is the same whether you added a PDF, a slide deck, a recording or a set of scanned pages.
Self-graded, and it remembers
Working through a deck means marking each card known or not known yourself: ClarityStudy is not guessing whether you got it right from a typed answer. What you mark not known keeps coming back until you mark it known; what you already have down drops out of the rotation, so a long review does not force you to keep re-reading cards you already learned. Flashcards sit alongside quizzes and a standalone matching game as ways to practice a topic once ClarityStudy has generated it from your material, but building the deck itself always starts with a document, not a blank card typed from scratch.
Coming from another app
If you already keep decks somewhere else, these set out what each app does well and where ClarityStudy works differently.
- ClarityStudy vs Quizlet: Quizlet is built around a shared library of sets other people wrote. ClarityStudy writes cards and quizzes from the document you upload, and schedules them into a plan.
- ClarityStudy vs Anki: Anki gives you direct control of a spaced-repetition schedule you build yourself. ClarityStudy generates the deck from your own material and folds review into a wider plan.
Questions people actually ask
Do I write the cards myself?
No. ClarityStudy generates them from the material you upload. You choose the topic and do the grading; it writes the front and back of each card.
Can I make flashcards from a PDF?
Yes. A PDF is one of the file types you can add, alongside slide decks, documents, images, audio and video. Everything you add goes through the same pass: ClarityStudy reads it, lists the topics inside, and generates cards for the topic you pick.
What happens to cards I already know?
They drop out of the rotation once you mark them known, so review time goes toward the cards you are still missing rather than the ones you have already learned.
Generate this from your own material in ClarityStudy.
Free to start. iPhone and web.