Upload lecture slides, First Aid exports, or any PDF. High-yield cards, spaced repetition-ready.
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 you review them in context.
Image occlusion cards
Image occlusion is a native Anki feature — after import, use the Anki image occlusion editor to mask labels directly on your diagrams.
Slide titles
In a text slide PDF, each slide becomes a card, with the slide title on the front and its bullets on the back.
Nested lists
In a text slide PDF, nested bullets stay on the back of their slide's card, in the order you wrote them, so pathophysiology steps and differential diagnosis lists read as one answer.
Only if the scan has a text layer from OCR. Slide exports from PowerPoint or Keynote always have a text layer. If you scanned paper notes with a phone, 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 — it's not something 2anki builds during conversion. What 2anki does is bring your diagrams across as images. Open the resulting deck in Anki, select an image card, and use Anki's image occlusion tool to add the masks.
Yes. Upload one block at a time — one module, one week, one organ system — rather than an entire year's worth of slides in one file. Anki handles 500-card decks far better than 5,000-card ones, and smaller decks are easier to schedule and share.
Anki uses a spaced repetition algorithm that schedules each card based on how well you remembered it, so high-yield cards you struggle with come back sooner. Quizlet offers flash-card practice but does not schedule cards the same way. If your program or study group uses Anki, 2anki keeps your decks in the same ecosystem.