Chat — study assistant

Paste notes or attach a file, ask for cards, work through a concept. Conversations are saved.

Chat is a study assistant built on Claude. Paste your notes or attach a file, then ask it to make cards, explain something, or work through a topic by going back and forth. Open it at 2anki.net/chat. Sign-in required.

Plan: Part of every paid plan — Subscription, Day Pass, and Lifetime. On a free account you can read your past conversations and download decks you already made, but sending messages requires a plan.

When to use this

• Your source isn't structured enough for the standard parser and you want to turn it into cards interactively.
• A standard upload returned too few cards (or none) and you want a second pass with a different angle.
• You want to think through a concept before making cards — explanation first, cards second.
• You're stuck on a specific upload error and want help working out why a file isn't converting.

Chat handles files directly now — attach a PDF, an image, a Notion export, or a document and it works from the content. For bulk conversion, or a Notion page whose toggles already map cleanly to cards, the standard upload flow is still faster and deterministic. Reach for chat when you want to shape the cards interactively.

Start a conversation

1. Open 2anki.net/chat.
2. Either click one of the starter chips ("Make 10 cards from notes I'll paste", "Explain a concept, then make cards", "Turn this into cloze cards: [paste]") or type your own prompt.
3. Send. The assistant replies, streaming the response as it generates.
4. When the assistant proposes cards, you'll see them inline as front/back previews. You can keep iterating or download an .apkg from there.

Past conversations stay in the sidebar on the left. Click any to reopen. You can rename a conversation or delete it from the same row.

Attach files

Attach study material straight to a message — you don't need the upload page for a single file. Click the attach button, pick your files, and send with or without a prompt. With no prompt, chat makes cards from what you attached.

What you can attach:

• PDFs and images (PNG, JPEG, GIF, WebP) go to the model as-is — it reads the pages or the picture directly.
• Notion exports (.zip), Word documents (.docx), Markdown (.md), and plain text (.txt) are read into text before the model sees them.

Limits per message:

• Up to 5 files.
• 10 MB per file.
• 25 MB across all files.

Go over any limit and the message is rejected before it sends, with a note saying which file or total to trim.

Regenerating a turn. Regenerate reuses the PDF or image you attached to that turn, so you don't re-upload to try a different angle. Attached PDFs and images are kept for 90 days, then deleted. Regenerate an older turn after that and chat asks you to attach the file again.

Writing useful prompts

A clear prompt beats a long one. Three patterns that work:

Paste your notes, then ask. "Here are my notes on the citric acid cycle. Make 12 cards focused on enzymes and their products." — paste the notes after.

Ask for explanation first. "Explain why beta-blockers work in heart failure. Then make 5 cards from your explanation." — useful when you're not sure what the right questions are yet.

Hand off a stuck upload. If the upload page told you 0 cards were created, click Open in chat from the error. The conversation prefills with the filename and you can describe what's in the file.

The same advice that works for AI flashcards works here — be specific about what to focus on, what to skip, and what tone you want.

Conversation limits

See Limits and quotas for the full plan table.

What we store

• The text of every message in every conversation (so you can reopen them). A Notion export, document, Markdown, or plain-text file you attach becomes part of that message text.
• Any PDF or image you attach, kept for 90 days so you can regenerate the turn, then deleted.
• The user account that owns the conversation.
• Nothing else — we don't run analytics on what you ask, and we don't train models on your conversations.

Delete a conversation any time using the trash icon in the sidebar. Deletion is immediate and final — the conversation can't be restored. For the full data picture, see the privacy policy.

Common mistakes

• Pasting more than the message limit. Each message caps at 100 000 characters. Split a longer source across multiple messages.
• Attaching a file type chat can't take. Chat accepts PDF, images, Notion .zip exports, .docx, .md, and .txt. Export or convert anything else to one of those first.
• Treating Chat as the only path. For source that already has structure, the standard parser is faster, deterministic, and free.

Related

• AI flashcards — automatic Claude generation as part of upload, for files instead of pasted text
• Limits and quotas — message quotas by plan
• Privacy policy — what we store, what we don't