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I have just tried this afternoon to create with Gemini 2.5 Pro Anki cards to study for my exams. I've been doing it raw: I just paste the whole material (like 1
by andy12_ 1y ago
I have just tried this afternoon to create with Gemini 2.5 Pro Anki cards to study for my exams. I've been doing it raw: I just paste the whole material (like 100k worth of tokens) into aistudio and generate the flashcards in txt format.
For now it's going great, and I think that the cards are good enough as they are (there might be a couple here and there that I would remove or edit, but they don't get in the way of learning).
- j1elo 1y agoIs there any prompt tips you have learned on that path, that you could share? or the obvious request has been useful already without too much fiddling? I was thinking to use some study material to test drive Google NotebookLM for this use case.
- andy12_ 1y agoI haven't tried many variations yet because a basic prompt seems to work well, thought it is important to remind Gemini of not using ";" inside the text of the cards if you use it as a separator. I imagine that with better prompts you could get it to generate very nice flash cards, but I'm in a little tight schedule, so I can't play around it for too long. Another nicer option I think would be using the structured output of the API to generate the cards in JSON format, and the parse it to the Anki format with a script, but I think this approach is fine for me. The prompt I'm using is this --- Using the information in these PDFs, make some Anki cards to study for an exam. The format for Anki cards is ``` front1;back1 front2;back2 front3;back3 ``` Remember that you can't use ";" inside a field because it is used to separate the front and back of a card. If the back of a card is a list of elements, prefer to use "<br>" to specify a newline.
- j1elo 1y agoThat's already very useful! thank you.