NoteMate

Free AI flashcard maker, no signup

Turn your lecture notes into flashcards

Paste your notes or a lecture transcript and get up to 10 flashcards to test yourself with. Flip each card, mark what you know, and see what needs more revision before your exam.

At least a few paragraphs, up to about 2,500 words. We don't save what you paste.

How to turn your notes into flashcards

  1. Paste your notes

    Copy a section of your lecture notes, a transcript or a reading into the box.

  2. Get your flashcards

    The AI picks out the key ideas and writes a question and a short answer for each, using only what you pasted.

  3. Test yourself

    Answer each question in your head, then flip the card. Mark it Got it or Needs work, and go back over the ones you missed.

Testing yourself like this, rather than rereading your notes, is one of the most reliable ways to remember material for an exam. Writing the questions is the slow part, so this does it for you.

What your flashcards look like

A card NoteMate made from a lecture on how memory works, question on top and answer underneath. Try the full sample deck.

Three stages of memory

Question

What are the three stages of memory?

Answer

Encoding, storage and retrieval. Most everyday failures happen at retrieval rather than the memory having been lost.

Questions about the flashcard maker

Yes. There is no signup and no payment details. You can make up to 5 decks an hour, each with up to 10 flashcards from about 2,500 words of notes.

Lecture notes, a lecture transcript, lecture slides copied as text, or a section of a reading. The flashcards only use what you paste, so the clearer and fuller your notes, the better your cards.

Read the question and answer it in your head before you flip the card. Then mark it Got it or Needs work. When you reach the end of the deck, go back over the cards that need work until you know them.

Yes. The flashcards are written in the same language as the notes you paste.

No. Your text is sent to our AI provider to write the flashcards and shown back to you, and NoteMate does not save your text or your cards. Your deck is gone when you leave the page, so copy anything you want to keep.

Not this free tool. NoteMate itself does: record a lecture in your browser or the iOS app, or upload a recording, and it writes your notes, a flashcard deck with spaced repetition and a practice quiz. It is free to start.