Synaptic Recall

    Google Slides to Anki

    Google Slides to Anki: download your Google Slides lecture as a PDF or PowerPoint file, upload it, 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 physiology lecture “BIOL 3420 Week 6 - Renal Physiology - Google Slides.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: 30 cards from the lecture, with a Download Anki button.
    4. A card from the deck opens in Anki: “Glomerular capillary pressure is 55 mmHg, Bowman's capsule pressure 15 mmHg and capillary…”
    5. Show Answer reveals: “55 − 15 − 30 = 10 mmHg, pushing fluid out of the glomerulus into Bowman's space”
    6. The key term “glomerulus” opens its definition: The tuft of capillaries inside Bowman's capsule where plasma is filtered into the nephron.
    7. Dr. Synapse explains: “Only capillary hydrostatic pressure favors filtration; Bowman's capsule pressure and plasma oncotic pressure oppose it. Bowman's space…”
    8. Anki scrolls down to the lecture slide the card came from: “Starling Forces in the Glomerulus”.
    9. The view moves onto the slide and a gold box marks the line the answer came from: “NFP = 55 − 15 − 30 = 10 mmHg (favors filtration)”.
    10. End card: “Google Slides to Anki deck”, an Upload now button, and “3 free credits · no card needed”.
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    From your Google Slides lecture

    In Google Slides, choose File, then Download, then PDF Document or Microsoft PowerPoint.

    Upload that file and the deck is built from your lecture, so you start with exactly what your course covers.

    Dr. Synapse reporting a 30-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 30-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: 30 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 Physiology, 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