Flashcards work because they force retrieval: you have to produce the answer before you see it, and that act of retrieval is what builds durable memory. Rereading a page feels productive and is far less effective.
Paste your notes with a separator between each term and its definition and this tool builds the deck. Cards come only from what you type — nothing is generated on your behalf, so the deck contains exactly the material your course covers.
Reading notes again produces a strong feeling of familiarity that is easily mistaken for knowledge. Recalling something without the page in front of you is harder, feels worse, and is substantially more effective — an effect consistent enough in the research literature that it has a name, the testing effect.
That is why the flip matters. Try to answer before you turn the card over, even when you are not confident. A failed attempt followed by seeing the answer teaches you more than reading the answer straight away.
Any of three separators works: a colon (Term: definition), a dash surrounded by spaces (Term - definition), or a tab. The tab option means you can copy two columns straight out of a spreadsheet or a table in your notes and paste them in without reformatting.
Lines without a separator are skipped, and the count is shown so you can spot a line that did not parse. Leading bullets, dashes and numbering are stripped automatically, so pasting a bulleted list generally works as it is.
One fact per card. A card whose back holds four separate points cannot be graded right or wrong, so you will keep marking it "nearly" and never truly learn it. Split it into four cards.
Make the front specific enough to have one answer. "Chapter 3" is not a prompt. And write the definition in your own words rather than copying the textbook — the act of rephrasing is itself most of the learning, and a card you understood while making it is far easier to recall later.
Reviewing a deck once the night before an exam is cramming. The same total time spread across several days produces markedly better retention, because each retrieval after partial forgetting strengthens the memory more than an easy one does.
A workable pattern: review a new deck the day you make it, then again after two days, then after a week. Shuffle each time — a deck reviewed in the same order teaches you the sequence rather than the content, and you will find yourself recalling the next card rather than the answer.
One card per line, separating term and definition with a colon, a spaced dash, or a tab. Tab-separated means you can paste two columns from a spreadsheet directly.
Yes, in this browser's local storage. They survive closing the tab but do not sync between devices, and clearing browser data removes them.
No — it builds cards from the term and definition pairs you supply. Inventing content for a revision deck would risk teaching you something that is not in your course.
Twenty to forty per session is manageable. Very large decks mean long gaps between repetitions of any one card, which weakens the benefit.
Yes. Everything runs in your browser, so once the page has loaded it needs no connection.