Synaptic Recall

    PowerPoint to Flashcards

    PowerPoint to flashcards: upload the .pptx from your course page, as it is, and get flashcards from it that download as an Anki deck.

    Every fact on every slide, pulled out of your memory instead of reread.

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    1. The anatomy and physiology PowerPoint lecture “BSC 2086 Ch 23 Digestive Pt 2 PPT.pdf” is dragged from Chrome’s downloads onto Synaptic Recall’s upload page, with only Anki selected.
    2. The PowerPoint lecture uploads and Dr. Synapse starts building the deck, counting cards as they are written.
    3. The deck is ready: 31 cards from the PowerPoint lecture, with a Download Anki button.
    4. A card from the deck opens in Anki: “Four years after her whole stomach was removed, a woman is tired and pale, and her red…”
    5. Show Answer reveals: “Parietal cells”
    6. The key term “intrinsic factor” opens its definition: A glycoprotein made by parietal cells that binds vitamin B12 so the ileum can absorb it.
    7. Dr. Synapse explains: “Intrinsic factor is the only stomach secretion essential for life. Vitamin B12 is absorbed in the terminal ileum only when bound to it, so…”
    8. Anki scrolls down to the PowerPoint lecture slide the card came from: “Gastric Glands: Four Cell Types”.
    9. The view moves onto the slide and a gold box marks the line the answer came from: “Parietal cells”.
    10. End card: “Flashcards straight from the PowerPoint”, an Upload now button, and “3 free credits · no card needed”.
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    Everything on the slides is fair game

    Anki cards that take forever to make, or giant premade decks that don’t include everything on your professor’s slides.

    This deck is built from your own PowerPoint, 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 Human Anatomy & 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.

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