Google Slides to Anki — turn a lecture deck into flashcards

Export your Slides deck to PDF, upload it, and download a .apkg. Each slide becomes a card you can edit before download.

How it works

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.

Supported formats

What you actually get in Anki

Cloze deletions stay clickable

{{c1::...}} becomes a real Anki cloze card, not plain text.

Images render in the card

Embedded images come across and display on the front or back.

Tags carry over

Strikethrough in Notion or a tag column in CSV attaches to every card in the deck.

Correct note types

Basic, Cloze, and front/back map to the right Anki note type so import is clean.

No junk in your cards

No empty backs, no stray #, *, or $ characters left over from your notes.

Common questions

Can I convert Google Slides to Anki directly, without exporting?

Not directly — export the deck to PDF first (File, Download, PDF Document). 2anki reads the PDF and turns each slide into a card. The export takes a few seconds and keeps images and diagrams intact.

How does 2anki decide the front and back of each card?

By default the slide is the front and the following slide is the back, so a question-then-answer sequence lines up for review. If your deck has speaker notes, those can go on the back instead. You can change the front and back before downloading.

Will images and diagrams from my slides come through?

Yes. Anything visible on the slide when you export to PDF — charts, diagrams, images — comes through on the card. Staged animations flatten to their final state in the export.

What file do I get back, and how do I open it?

You download an Anki .apkg file. Double-click it to import into Anki desktop, or import it through AnkiWeb. The whole lecture lands as a deck of cards.

My slides are in PowerPoint, not Google Slides. Does that work?

Yes — use the PowerPoint to Anki page for .pptx files. The result is the same: one card per slide, downloadable as an Anki deck.

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