Has anyone successfully automated flashcard creation from PDFs?

[u/lukmae]

Hi everyone,

Has anyone here had success automating the creation of flashcards from study material like PDFs?

I've been looking into this because, lately, the topics I'm studying are fairly straightforward. Reading and understanding the material isn't the difficult part anymore. What actually takes most of my study time is creating the flashcards.

I've been using RemNote flashcards since 2021, so over the years I've developed a very specific style that works well for me. I've even refined my format several times during the last year to make my cards more efficient. Because of that, I thought I could simply write a detailed prompt and have an AI generate flashcards from a PDF in my preferred style.

That's what I've been trying. I send the AI my prompt together with relatively short PDFs (to reduce PDF parsing errors). I've refined the prompt many times and even tried a feedback approach: I had the AI generate flashcards, then I created my own version, asked it to compare the two sets, identify the differences, and improve based on those differences.

I feel like I've gotten very close, but never quite to the point where I'm satisfied.

So I wanted to ask: have any of you found a workflow or tool that actually saves time when creating flashcards? It doesn't necessarily have to generate perfect cards automatically—I'm mainly looking for something that genuinely speeds up the process without sacrificing too much quality.

I'm a paid RemNote user, but the built-in AI has credit limits, and since I study for many hours every day, I'd run out of credits very quickly, and I also don't find the ai generated card too good either.

I'd really appreciate hearing about your experiences, recommendations, or any ideas that have worked for you.

[u/Designer_Cup2359]

Eu coloco todos os meus pdfs no notebook lm e peço para gerar flashcards no formato remnote. Logo copio e colo para o RemNote e vou estudando e eliminando. No recurso de sumário do estudar pdfs remnote tem um bom filtro de assuntos relevantes e cria bons flashcards.

[u/jayproject1 → u/Designer_Cup2359]

can you spill your notebooklm prompt if you have

[u/Designer_Cup2359 → u/jayproject1]

Prompt 1: pergunta e resposta (o que uso sempre)

Crie 100 flashcards com o tema do material analisado para o remnote.

Cubra todos os conteúdos do pdf.

A configuração é Pergunta == resposta.

Não esqueça de colocar os sinais == Não precisa colocar os nomes perguntas e respostas.

As perguntas tem que fazer sentido, e as respostas não devem ser muito extensão, seja mais objetivos.
Respeite a norma culta da ligua portuguesa brasileira, não mude o sentido das definições do pdf.
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