Synaptic Recall

    Anki Card Generator for Social Work Students

    Anki card generator for social work students: upload a lecture from your MSW program and get a deck built from it.

    Every card shows the slide it came from, so you know exactly where the information is.

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    1. The social work lecture “SOWK 5110 Lecture 4 - Ecological Systems Theory.pdf” is dragged from Chrome’s downloads onto Synaptic Recall’s upload page, with only Anki selected.
    2. The lecture uploads and Dr. Synapse starts building the deck, counting cards as they are written.
    3. The deck is ready: 31 cards from the lecture, with a Download Anki button.
    4. A card from the deck opens in Anki: “Jordan, 14: his mother's hospital moves her to night shifts, so he is home alone every…”
    5. Show Answer reveals: “The exosystem: a setting Jordan is never in that still affects him through his mother”
    6. The key term “exosystem” opens its definition: A setting the person is not part of that still affects them, such as a parent's workplace.
    7. Dr. Synapse explains: “Jordan never sets foot in the hospital, yet its scheduling decision changes his evenings. That indirect route, through a parent, is what…”
    8. Anki scrolls down to the lecture slide the card came from: “Bronfenbrenner's Ecological Systems Theory (1979)”.
    9. The view moves onto the slide and a gold box marks the line the answer came from: “Exosystem: settings the person is not in that still affect them”.
    10. End card: “Social work lecture to Anki deck”, an Upload now button, and “3 free credits · no card needed”.
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    Made from your MSW program’s lectures

    An endless amount of material, with no direction on how to study any of it.

    This deck is built from one of your own social work lectures, so you start with exactly what your course covers.

    Dr. Synapse reporting a 31-card deck ready from one lecture, with a Download Anki button

    What every card includes

    We build your deck directly from your source material, so you can spend that time actually practicing active recall.

    • The right number of cards for the material, not one per bullet point
    • The right question for each fact, worded so you can’t answer it by recognition
    • The slide it came from on the card, so you know exactly where the information is
    • A dropdown with a further explanation
    • Key terms highlighted, with what each one means and where the word comes from
    A card from the 31-card deck open in Anki: the answer, Dr. Synapse’s explanation and the lecture slide it came from

    Ready for Anki

    Active recall means trying to answer a question from memory before checking the answer, and Anki gives you that practice one question at a time.

    The deck downloads as an .apkg file that Anki imports.

    Anki’s Import File window: 31 new notes imported from the deck

    How it works

    Upload one lecture as a PDF or PowerPoint.

    The system is three simple steps you do for every one of your lectures:

    • Understand the why behind the information: the Story
    • Memorize with active recall: the Anki deck
    • Apply it to real exam questions: the practice exam
    The upload page tailored for Social Work, with a lecture PDF dropped in and the Anki deck selected

    Free to try

    New accounts start with three free credits, and no card is needed.

    Three credits cover one lecture with all three study modes.

    Try it on your next lecture.

    Upload now