Flashcard Formatter
Paste your notes and get question-and-answer pairs back, ready to print or import into Anki. It handles colons, dashes, tab-separated columns pasted from a spreadsheet, and explicit Q and A lines — and it lists anything it could not split rather than dropping part of your notes silently.
Works offline — your inputs never leave this device. How that works
1 card — read as Q: / A: pairs
Your cards
What does the Golgi apparatus do?
Modifies, sorts, and packages proteins for secretion or use in the cell
Grading scales vary by institution — your school's own table and syllabus govern. Conversions shown here follow common published conventions.
🎓 Understand this tool
What it is
This converts pasted notes into question-and-answer pairs you can print or import into a spaced-repetition app, without retyping anything.
How it works
It looks for a separator on each line — a colon, a dash, or a tab — and splits the line into a prompt and an answer. Explicit Q: and A: lines are recognised too, and where nothing on a line can be split, the line is listed rather than discarded.
Getting the most from it
- Paste notes in whatever shape they are already in; the parser is designed to handle the common ones without reformatting.
- Check the count and the skipped list before exporting, so you know nothing quietly vanished.
- Try the reversed direction once. Knowing a term from its definition and a definition from its term are genuinely different tasks.
- Export to CSV and import into Anki, mapping the first column to Front and the second to Back.
Reading your result
Each card shows the prompt and the answer beneath it. The detected format is named so you can tell whether the parser read your notes the way you intended, and the skipped list shows exactly which lines it could not use.
What it can't tell you
It splits text; it does not understand it. A poorly worded note becomes a poorly worded card, and the tool cannot tell you whether a question is worth asking — which is the part that actually determines whether the cards help.
Frequently asked questions
Why bother turning notes into questions?
Because being asked for something is a different mental act from reading it. Testing yourself on material produces markedly better long-term retention than studying the same material again, and the simplest way to get that benefit from your own notes is to phrase them as questions.
What format should my notes be in?
Almost anything with two parts per line: a colon, a dash, or a tab between the term and its meaning all work, and explicit Q: and A: lines are detected too. If a line cannot be split it is listed rather than discarded, so you can see exactly what was left out.
How do I import into Anki?
Download the CSV, then in Anki choose File and Import, pick the file, and map the first column to Front and the second to Back. The export is plain comma-separated text with quoted fields, which is what Anki expects and what a spreadsheet can also open.
What does testing the other way round do?
It swaps front and back, so you are given the definition and asked for the term. Both directions are worth practising because they are genuinely different recall tasks, and it is common to know one direction fluently while the other stays surprisingly hard.
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