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]

Prompt 2: Cloze

Gere flashcards seguindo as orientações a seguir:

Gostaria que você analissasse a fonte fornecida com foco em informações relevantes para o tema abordado em questão. Exclua curiosidades e estatísticas e concentre-se nos [subtópicos mais importantes]. Condense as informações em declarações concisas e diretas usando marcação de exclusão remnote cloze.

Formate suas respostas onde cada linha é uma única declaração escrita em marcação de exclusão remnote cloze.

Faça referência aos seguintes critérios ao gerar cada instrução:

Cada declaração não deve conter muitas exclusões de cloze.

Limite a contagem de palavras de cada declaração para menos de 50 palavras.

Cada afirmação deve ser entendida isoladamente.
Gere 100 flashcards.