Synaptic Recall

    Handwritten Notes to Flashcards

    Handwritten notes to flashcards: upload a scan or Goodnotes PDF of your notes and get flashcards that download as an Anki deck.

    Copying notes, even making the cards yourself, is not practicing recall.

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    1. The pediatric nursing handwritten notes PDF “NURS 3430 Peds Unit 4 - CHD notes.pdf” is dragged from Chrome’s downloads onto Synaptic Recall’s upload page, with only Anki selected.
    2. The handwritten notes PDF uploads and Dr. Synapse starts building the deck, counting cards as they are written.
    3. The deck is ready: 30 cards from the handwritten notes PDF, with a Download Anki button.
    4. A card from the deck opens in Anki: “A 3-month-old with unrepaired TOF turns deep blue and breathes fast while crying.”
    5. Show Answer reveals: “Knee-chest position (this is a hypercyanotic spell)”
    6. The key term “hypercyanotic spell” opens its definition: A sudden episode of deep cyanosis and fast breathing in a child with unrepaired tetralogy of Fallot; a tet spell.
    7. Dr. Synapse explains: “Crying drops systemic resistance and tightens the outflow to the lungs, so more blue blood crosses the VSD into the aorta. Folding the…”
    8. Anki scrolls down to the handwritten notes PDF page the card came from: “Tetralogy of Fallot (TOF) = "PROV"”.
    9. The view moves onto the page and a gold box marks the line the answer came from: “knee-chest position → ↑ SVR → less R → L shunt → more blood to lungs”.
    10. End card: “Written by hand, studied in Anki”, an Upload now button, and “3 free credits · no card needed”.
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    The notes are done. The index cards are not.

    A page with no text layer, like a scan of your notebook, is read as an image.

    Every card shows the page of your notes it came from, so you know exactly where the information is.

    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 Pediatric Nursing, 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.

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