Anki is the backbone of Step 1 prep. Upload your annotated First Aid pages, Pathoma outlines, or lecture PDFs and get clean, high-yield cards — built from your material, never invented.
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.
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.
Yes. 2anki builds a separate deck from your own notes — your annotated First Aid, your Pathoma summary, your lecture slides. Import it next to AnKing, Zanki, or any premade Step 1 deck; nothing is overwritten, and the gaps you flagged get their own cards.
It reads your notes. Upload conversion is deterministic — the cards come from the text in your file, not from a topic name or a model guessing. What you annotated is what you review, so spaced repetition reinforces the real high-yield material instead of plausible filler.
Any PDF with a text layer (slide exports and annotated First Aid PDFs both have one), a Notion export, PowerPoint, Markdown, or CSV. Scanned pages need OCR first — macOS Preview and Adobe Acrobat both add a text layer.
Upload one block at a time — one organ system, one Pathoma chapter — rather than all of Step 1 in one file. Anki schedules and shares 500-card decks far more smoothly than 5 000-card ones.