AI making anki decks

You are an expert spaced-repetition tutor and an expert at designing Anki flashcards following the 20 rules of formulating knowledge. Your task is to convert the text I provide below into high-yield, atomic cloze deletion flashcards. Rules to follow strictly: Format: Use standard Anki cloze markup like {{c1::target word}} or {{c1::target word::hint}}. Atomicity: Each card must test only ONE key fact or concept. Grouping multiple facts into a single card is permissible if the concepts or facts are correlated in some way. Self-Contained: Every sentence must provide enough context so it stands alone and makes sense without looking at the rest of the notes. Simplicity: Keep sentences short and direct (under 30-40 words). Avoid walls of text or complex compound sentences. Selection: Hide only pivotal keywords, technical terms, dates, or numbers—never blank out entire phrases that destroy the sentence context. Output Format: Provide the output in a clean code block as a plain text list (or tab-separated table) where each line is a ready-to-import Anki cloze card. Turn the following notes into a comma-separated values (CSV) file with cloze deletions for anki. Keep it around 100 cards, can go over a bit. Scale the decks proportionately smaller if the powerpoint is shorter. Bulleted lists are ok. Cloze deletions on bulleted lists maybe leave a key letter to give a hint. try and use similar wording to the slides. avoid using any epidemiological percentages. focus on pathophysiology, clinical presentation, symptoms, diagnostic testing, and treatments. focus on what differentiates two similar disease processes. for medications focus on names, MOA, indications, contraindications, notable side effects, and monitoring pay attention to gold standard testing, treatments. pay attention to highlighted text and text that's different color or accentuated in some way. contraindications, what tests or medications are indicated for. avoid dosages for medications. Do not occlude the receptor or protein name and/or number but instead focus on what it does. do not entirely abbreviate conditions as acronyms. put the acronym in parentheses. Do not include any header row, footnotes, or extra conversational text—output only the raw CSV data. Underline the disease process or concept being asked about do not include the lists about potential differential diagnoses I put this into claude and it gives me a .csv I import. I then go through the lectures and change what it does cloze deletions on since it kinda occludes weird stuff sometimes. I also add some more material the prof maybe accentuated in class. If anyone has any tweaks to this, I'm all ears.

Do u have one which isn’t cloze?

Cloze is best. You can do multiple in a single card and do one-by-one

I don’t seem to learn well doing cloze tbh! I never retain the information, interesting to see someone w a diff perspective!

Are you an M1?

Does that refer to my year? Yes I’m in year 1 and currently doing the foundation biology part of the course!

I'm guessing you're not from the US huh? I'd reconsider cloze and do 1 by 1 and also, use multiple clozes like just a cloze 1 and 2 in the same card, ambiss add on is nice. Be familiar with image occlusion. And also anking is a great resource with lots of tags. Master anki, most people that scored a 260+ use anki. Including myself, Dont need to use it religiously but use it to learn your lecture material. Front back method kinda ass lowkey.

I’m from the UK! I think I will experiment more w cloze though! No harm in trying out different methods at this stage of the game! :)

Claude is better than chat. Here’s mine: Turn the lecture notes below into concise Anki flashcards for a biomedical sciences graduate student. Requirements: Focus on the stated learning objectives and exam-relevant concepts. Test one concept per card. Include mechanisms, cause-and-effect relationships, comparisons, and clinical or anatomical applications where appropriate. Use cloze deletions for pathways and sequences when useful. Avoid trivial details, duplicate questions, and facts not supported by my notes. Keep answers concise but sufficient to explain the concept. Organize the cards by lecture topic. Flag any information that is ambiguous or requires verification instead of guessing. Return the cards in a two-column format: Front and Back. LECTURE OBJECTIVES AND NOTES: [Paste notes here]

Then ask for a downloadable anki deck

hi! i use this prompt: https://github.com/maibrandon/anki-agent/blob/main/study_prompts/course-material-to-anki-cloze.md

Bro you're a legend

I upload the PowerPoint/textbook chapters into Google Notebook LM. Then I use the flashcard feature to create a deck of flashcards. For the settings I choose the “more cards” and “hard” options, then in the text prompt I tell it to “comprehensively cover every concept mentioned throughout the entire PowerPoint” (or textbook). For a 40 slide PowerPoint it will generate about 90 high quality cards. Then I input them into anki. Going thru the deck myself and inputting them into anki lets me check/verify where each card is coming from and whether it’s accurate or worded strangely before I start running through them.

How do you upload the PowerPoint/textbook?

when you open the Gemini Notebook website, click the button that says "new notebook." there will be a tab on the lefthand side that organizes sources you upload. Click "add sources" in that tab. From there you can upload many different file types downloaded to your computer. after they finish uploading there's a tab on the right called "studio" where it can automatically create flashcards, a quiz, or a podcast (and more) based on the sources you uploaded. those 3 features have been super helpful for preparing for my in-house exams.

Wow! Thank you so much. And I’m assuming you use anki for mcat and the step exams?

No prob! Yes Anki has been a total game changer for my memory/performance. I am currently in first year med school. But when prepping for the MCAT, doing anki brought my score up 15 points in like 3 months.

Wow great job! Are you using anking or your own created deck?

thx! ive been creating my own decks. very time consuming but it works well for me.

If your school provides access to open evidence, I think the .anki dot phrase does a good job

Can you explain this more? I’m interested

Yeah so my school pays for open evidence access which is that like hippa compliant ai that only uses cdc data and other more accurate sources for answers. There is a dot phrase section where users can basically make shortcuts. One of the popular community made ones is .anki_step1. You can enter any topic or upload any slide deck, use the dot phrase, and it’s instructed to make high yield cards based on USMLE step one ( it’s a long command similar to the one green_three posted and I am on my phone so I can’t see the entire thing to copy over ) but basically it makes really good cloze deletion cards with good relevant information for the extra section of the card as well.

Interesting thanks!

Learning scientist here. I have experimented a bit with this and have also published an instruction that works OK-ish. It depends on the model, but the outputs are generally good enough for me to keep more than 50% of the cards without any major editing. My testing has been limited to the heavier pro models though, as I see that there is a pretty clear relationships between how expensive the models are and their output. https://github.com/Psykt47/anki-flashcard-skill/tree/2026-08-20.1 Let med know if you do something useful with it. Suggestions for improvements are very welcome.

Claude was able to pull from Kaplan chapters without me uploading anything. I created a full deck of MCAT style questions for each high yield concept listed in each Kaplan chapter. Also what I’ve started doing during review of questions from practice or exams is have the Gemini extension open and ask that it explains how and why I got it wrong and how not to make the mistake again. You can then go into the actual Gemini account and export the entire document of your chat as a txt file and hand it to Claude or chat and have them create cards from it. Gpt actually has been doing a better job recently creating decks.

Reenymd does it in one upload super easy

For non-cloze, take that prompt and swap the cloze rules for "each card is a front and a back". Then change the output part too: ask for tab-separated, not CSV. Medical text is full of commas, and one unquoted comma in a back field pushes the rest into a new column, so the cards come out half empty. Also tell it to start the file with these lines: #separator:tab, #html:true, #notetype:Basic. Then one card per line, with line breaks inside a card written as <br>. Anki reads those header lines on import and presets the separator, HTML and note type, so you just save it as .txt and hit Import If your copy-paste turns the tabs into spaces, ask for | between front and back and use #separator:pipe instead.

I used to have a very long prompt file that I would place each time but Claude can fully make my files for me for Anki. I have a few components that other people have mentioned. Make the most out of cloze, basic, and image occlusion for sure

i have a skill that makes them. you can have it make your own skill just have it use a deep research skill on good anki card creation technique for med school and to base it off that research. it will do it all and create it for you and then you just type in /"whateveryourskilliscalled" and your source material or a topic and it will make them. you can also create a connector where it will auto import the created cards into your deck