Turn your notes into flashcards

What is an AI flashcard generator, and why use one?

A flashcard is a question on one side and the answer on the other. It works for studying because it makes you recall the answer instead of rereading it: you have to come up with it first and only then check. The catch is that writing cards by hand for a whole semester takes hours you would rather spend studying them.

KognitiMind does that step for you, from your own material rather than generic templates: your lecture slides, the seminar handout, the textbook chapter you scanned. If your course mixes English and Hungarian material, the cards are written in your account language, English or Hungarian, whatever language the source is in.

How does flashcard generation work in KognitiMind?

1. Upload the document. PDF, PPTX or DOCX, up to your plan's file size limit. On a paid plan, images and scanned PDFs work too.
2. Wait for processing. The text is extracted in the background, and the document's status shows when it is ready.
3. Open the Flashcards tab and press Generate Flashcards. The AI writes a set of up to ten cards on the concepts, definitions and facts in the material. Each card has a specific question, a short answer and a difficulty label.
4. Study the set. Click a card to flip it, star the ones you struggle with, and move on to the next.

Need more cards? Generate another set from the same document. Each set uses a few AI credits from your plan.

How do you decide what to study first?

The star is a marker: when you go through a set again, you see straight away which cards tripped you up. Deciding when a card should come back is the job of scheduled review. On the Review page you rate each card with one of four buttons (Again, Hard, Good, Easy), and each button shows how many days it would schedule the card for. Cards you find hard come back sooner, easy ones later, and the cards that are due today always come first. So you do not have to plan the order yourself.

How do you get the cards into Anki?

A set's page has two downloads, available on every plan:

• Anki (.apkg): a package you double-click to open in Anki. The cards go into a KognitiMind deck, with a sub-deck per document. If you import the same set again later, Anki updates the cards instead of creating duplicates.
• CSV: two quoted columns, question and answer, for a spreadsheet or another flashcard app.

Cards arrive in Anki as new: the review history you built up in KognitiMind does not carry over.

What does a set look like in practice?

Take a physiology handout as a DOCX on how neurons conduct signals. A generated set could contain cards like these:

• Question: What is the resting membrane potential? Answer: The voltage difference across a neuron's membrane when it is not firing.
• Question: What causes the rising phase of an action potential? Answer: Voltage-gated sodium channels open and sodium flows into the cell.
• Question: What is the role of the refractory period? Answer: It stops the signal from travelling backwards and limits how often the neuron can fire.

This is an illustration; the actual cards depend on your material. Skim them before you start, and where a card disagrees with your notes, trust your notes.

How do you study well with flashcards?

• Understand first, then memorise. Cards are for locking in what you already understand. If a concept is unclear, ask about it in the document chat or read the summary.
• Say the answer before you flip. Recall is the point, not recognition.
• Rate honestly. If you only half knew it, press Hard, so it comes back sooner.
• Review a little every day. Short daily sessions beat one long night before the exam, and scheduled review is built for exactly that.

What happens to your material?

Your documents and cards are visible only in your own account. To generate the cards, the relevant text is sent to the Google Gemini API. Deleting a document deletes the flashcard sets, quizzes and chat made from it as well.