Upload a PDF of your slides — headings become deck names, bullets become cards.
1. Drop your file
Notion export, PDF, Word, Markdown, or a Quizlet export.
2. 2anki builds your deck
Usually a few seconds. Bigger files take a minute.
3. Open it in Anki
Double-click the .apkg file. Your cards are ready to study.
Diagrams
Diagrams embedded in your slides come across as images inside the card, so clinical illustrations stay attached to the relevant concept.
Image occlusion cards
Image occlusion is a native Anki feature — after import, use the Anki image occlusion editor to mask labels on any diagram that came across.
Bold and italic text
Bolded terms and italicised definitions carry through to the card so your lecturer's emphasis guides your review.
Nested lists
Nested bullet hierarchies become nested cards, preserving the structure of multi-step clinical processes and classification systems.
Only if the scan has a text layer from OCR. PDFs exported from PowerPoint or Keynote always have a text layer. If you photographed paper handouts, run them through an OCR tool first — macOS Preview and Adobe Acrobat both do this.
Image occlusion is a native Anki feature built into the card editor — 2anki doesn't build the masks during conversion. 2anki brings your diagrams across as images. Open the resulting deck in Anki and use Anki's image occlusion tool to add label masks to any diagram.
Yes. Upload one lecture or one topic block at a time rather than an entire course as a single file. Smaller decks are easier to schedule and review, and Anki performs better with focused 200–500 card decks than with one massive deck.
Anki uses a spaced repetition algorithm that schedules each card based on your recall, so cards you find harder come back sooner. Quizlet offers flash-card practice but uses a different scheduling model. If your program or study group uses Anki, 2anki keeps your lecture notes in the same ecosystem.