PDF2Anki

I'm a medical student who has tried Anki a couple times in my past 2 years of studies, but a few months ago, just gave up on using it. Creating cards took way too long, and pre-made decks would not match the lectures I'd want to review. PDF2Anki piqued my interest though, as it solves these problems by still giving me control over what I want to review, but without all the time needed to create cards individually. I was skeptical, but decided to try it. I was impressed, and so far it's everything it claims to be! Drag-and-drop makes it easy to upload files for conversion, and files are available as .txt or .apkg. I had 0 problems opening the files on Anki. The questions generated are at a level of detail that I'd expect from my exams. It takes a bit longer than expected to process the documents and I still do have to go through the cards and delete some duplicates, sample questions, and unnecessary questions (e.g. I don't need to know the author/lecturer name), but it still greatly reduces the time I would have taken to create cards on my own. I love that I can go form consuming the lecture content to active recall in just a few minutes! PDF2Anki allows me to reap the benefits of active recall without expending too much time and energy, which we med students already lack. I can see how using this more consistently can give me extra time to sleep or rest, or get more rounds of Anki practice. Thank you to the team!

It generates interesting questions that are helpful to study and picked out information I skimmed over. However, a few answers didn't make sense or displayed "Data incomplete" as the answer. Several answers were worded a little too close to the question, were occasionally (but rarely) incomplete or just weren't very useful. e.g. What is the role of the isomerase in the metabolism of monounsaturated fatty acids? A: The isomerase is required for the metabolism of monounsaturated fatty acids. Q:What is the immediate emergency treatment required for acidosis with a blood pH level below 3.0 mmol/L? A:Immediate emergency treatment is required for acidosis with a blood pH level below 3.0 mmol/L. These flaws were still incredibly uncommon and the vast majority of questions I found to be helpful. Flawed questions can easily be deleted. Overall, it's not perfect but I love it and will be using it. Excited to see further development.

I think it's amazing! Saves me so much time from creating the decks manually. The questions generated are helpful for revision and are actually quite similar to the decks I'd normally create from the lecture slides. I've recommended this web app to my friends who also use flashcards! Thank you so much for taking the time and effort in creating PDF2Anki. For further improvements I was wondering if you could look into resolving issues related to Card ID fields? Sometimes I encounter issues when importing the .apkg files and the error message is "Notes skipped, as up-to-date copies are already in your collection: ⁨51⁩", even when I'm importing new files. Not sure if it's an Anki issue instead tho loll