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Study material you can trace back to the sentence it came from.

Notes to flashcards, with the notes still attached

Most note-to-flashcard tools hand back cards and throw the notes away. RecallQuill stores the source with the deck, numbers its paragraphs, and shows the cited paragraph next to the card you are studying, so a confusing card is one glance from being resolved.

  • Verbatim source anchors
  • Private engine by default
  • Export and delete anytime

Try notes to flashcards before you sign up

Paste any notes below and the page itself drafts a few anchored cards with the same private engine the product saves with — no account, no upload, nothing leaves this browser tab.

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This preview runs entirely in this browser tab, powered by the same private deterministic engine the product uses — no model provider is involved and nothing you paste here is uploaded or stored.

What RecallQuill actually does here

What happens to your notes between pasting them and studying them.

Markdown and plain text, as written

Paste directly or upload a UTF-8 .txt or .md file. The source is split on blank lines, or on sentences when the notes are one continuous block, and the count of sections you see matches what the generator works from.

One card, one idea, one paragraph

Each card names the paragraph it came from and keeps a short verbatim quote from it. Cards that cannot point at real wording in a real paragraph are not saved.

Edit the wording, keep the trail

Rewrite a clumsy prompt or tighten an answer whenever you like. The paragraph link and the verbatim anchor stay locked to the edit, so the card can still be checked afterwards.

Your notes come back out again

Deck exports are JSON containing the source, the cards, the schedules, the review history, and the generation provenance. Imports are validated and previewed before anything is written.

How the workflow works

From a notes file to a first review in one sitting.

  1. Bring the notes in

    Upload a .txt or .md file up to 1 MB, or paste up to 30,000 characters. Files over the generation limit are refused with the exact character count rather than silently truncated.

  2. Generate and check

    Set the card count between two and twenty and generate. Read each cited paragraph beside the card, and edit anything the split handled awkwardly.

  3. Start the schedule

    Rate a card Again, Hard, or Known and RecallQuill sets the next due date, records the interval, and shows how many cards are due across the whole library.

Current limits, stated up front

The honest edges of this workflow:

  • Sources are UTF-8 text and Markdown you paste or upload — not PDF, OCR, image, video, audio, or office documents.
  • A source anchor shows where wording came from; it does not prove a card is a good question. Read the anchor and edit the card.
  • A library holds up to 30 decks, 600 cards, and 3,000 review records, which keeps every save fast and recoverable.

Questions about turning notes into flashcards

Which note formats work?

UTF-8 plain text and Markdown, pasted or uploaded as .txt or .md. PDF, OCR, images, audio, video, and office documents are not supported, so anything in those formats has to be copied out as text first.

How are my notes split into cards?

Blank lines separate paragraphs. If the notes arrive as one unbroken block, RecallQuill falls back to sentence boundaries. Very short fragments are skipped, and the builder shows the resulting section count before you generate.

Do I lose the original notes?

No. The source is stored with the deck, shown beside each card while you study, and included in every export.

Can I bring flashcards back in later?

Yes. Import a RecallQuill JSON export and it is validated, capacity-checked against your remaining library space, given fresh identifiers, and shown as a preview before anything is saved.