The app is useless unless you are using the specific books I was using. Because it uses simple Python scripts and doesn't incorporate any LLMs, so it's very inflexible. But I'm slowly breaking down the process for people who want to do what I did into bite sized tutorials.
The custom GPTs I shared do not contain medicine specific prompts, but most of the examples I use are medicine related. Because that is my area of study and I have never made flashcard for any other subject. If your using a text resource, it should still work for you. Even if it's not medicine related because the criteria for what makes a good flashcard should translate to other fields.
Make sure the notes section is in a separate column in your spreadsheet, then, when you go to import the CSV file, make sure you assign that column to the "back/extra" field in the section called "Field Mapping".
I made another video about importing your csv file into anki. If your excel doesn't have the option of CSV UTF8, then you could move everything to Google sheets and export it from there. The other option is to just save the file as a csv file in excel, then open it with a plain text editor like note-pad and save the file as a .CSV and change the encoding to UTF-8 (right next to the save button). ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-DIkynwCHLfA.html
Sure! I've got something planned, but I'm not so sure how granular to make it. My cards look the way they do because I customize them with CSS and HTML. But I use chatGPT to do most of it. Are you familiar with customizing your anki note templates (colors, fonts, fields, etc)? Or would you need a video that's starts with the basics of flashcard templates?
@@JakeRommMD I'm a little familiar with it, but for the channel I think it would be helpful to show from the start. I would love to learn and see your process.
is there a way to add pictures (screenshots of the page in the textbook)? Maybe in a third column in Excel and assign it to an "extra" field or something? If someone could help with that that would be amazing. Thanks
There is. Working on a video about html links but here are the highlights: -save your screen shots in a folder (use a naming convention that's super easy to remember and organized - add another field to your Anki note template - in the the card editor (browser->select a card in your deck->left upper hand corner select "card") add the extra field to either the Front or Back of the card - in your spreadsheet, add another column and add the html links to the image (it looks like this: <img src="exact_file_name.png"> - move all your screen shots to the collection.media folder before you import your CSV file -import csv and map the extra column to the image field You can manually save screen shots or use a python script to convert your pdf page to an image if you want the entire page. You can also extract just the images with Python. Which is what I do.
The link in the description takes you to the page with the prompts. Click on the drop-down arrows and you'll find the prompts within a bunch of code blocks you can just copy to your clipboard.
I've been playing around with chatgpt trying to reach a good prompt but I never know what to write to create flashcrads like my own. This is spot on!!! Just copied 2 pages of Oxford handbook of clinical medicine and got 28 concise and clinically useful cards just like I wanted. THANK YOU!!!
This worked for a while, but for some reason when I paste them into excel they dont have the black format on the background anymore and when I port them into anki both sides of the card are on one side. Do you know how to fix it?
Hmm. The color of the background won't influence anything. Is there a change in the actual text when it copies over? Are the 'front' and 'back' fields still in separate columns? The other reason both sides can end up on one side is that anki isn't separating the fields by the correct delimiter. With a CSV file it needs to be set to "comma". You can change that in the import pop-up window.
It varies depending on the density of the resource. Sometimes I may only need 3 cards for multiple paragraphs. I tend towards the "less is more" mentality most of the time and just keep the cards that test only the key concepts.
The thumbnail is a little bit of false advertising I'm afraid. The flashcards are from the Case Review Series. I worked on automating flashcards from Core, but I need more time to explore AI models that are more capable than GPT with an API. I can't share the deck as it contains over 5k copyrighted images. But I can share how I did it. Which is coming after I finish get through done with nights.
Thank you so much for your incredibly straightforward video! I’m interested in Radiology as well. Subbed and look forward to more of your amazing content!
When you said unsuspense cards when you finished the chapter, what do you mean by that? Can you elaborate? Wouldn’t you want to suspend them after you are done with the chapter?
I created flashcards based off text from a textbook. I then import them into Anki. Then I start with the entire deck "suspended" which in anki means they are hidden and won't appear as new cards to be learned. I will then only "unsuspend" cards that pertain to the chapter I am reading. That way I am reviewing only the concepts related to the chapters I am actively studying. Each time I start a new chapter I will "unsuspend" the cards that go with that chapter. This makes it so that I am seeing flashcards that reinforce what I am reading. And I'm not getting tested on material I haven't reviewed yet. You don't then suspend cards you have reviewed after finishing the chapter. You let the algorithm take over scheduling the review of that material to maximize retention.
My deck has over 5k copyrighted images in it, so I can't share it widely. I made an introductory radiology deck that the author gave me permission to share tho. thevitalcurriculum.super.site/a9b293ca88b94d42b70554398b1fc264
@@MrPierreSab This is irrelevant. You can manually create cards while still struggling to set the foundation for all the material in your head and having problems learning them. I'm a med student speaking from experience. The classic method is good in theory but in the long-run, it can be terribly draining both mentally and physically. Some of us are having hospital rotations and don't have 10 hours of free time on our hands to spend behind computers. Clearly people who searched "how to create flashcards with AI" are already familiar with their material and just need a quick method to turn their material into flashcards. When you already know the material, having a premade deck is a blessing that can save you so much time and power. I for one, am grateful for videos like this and think anything that can make my studying more fruitful and time-efficient is welcome.
@@aripotter2435 Thank you. I think I get your point. The conditions are : 1. You already know the content. 2. You discover anki after you start studying. 3. You want to catch up quickly and have all the juicy knowledge in one "box", what anki provides. I didn't think about that. Thank you for sharing your idea.
I legitimately copied eveyrthing you said and it just keeps messing up the formatting perameters. I offered about 6 examples and adde dmore along the way. It seems to take any intermediate feedback i ask it after the original prompt as the only requirements and forgets any other changes i asked it to make to the cards, it's so annoying. I'm using Chat GPT 4, too! It creates cards but doesn't cloze what i want, or synthesizes it's own information even after asking it not to do that, and it will make a note section for all cards even after asking it to only do it to applicable cards, etc. I asked it to only cloze delete information after the "=" in equations, and it still does Cloze1 = cloze2 for everything. idk why it can't remember to adhere to my requirements despite examples and feedback.
Create a custom GPT. That's the only way to make your original reference criteria stick and remain persistent. You can try one of my custom gpts if you want as well. The links to them are on my website and my other video
@@JakeRommMD We had premade decks passed down from the older classes but a lot of the content has changed since my school became pass fail/just with curriculum changes and some of the cards the m3s made that got passed to us were really longwinded and formatter in a way that my brain doesn't like lol. Thankfully i'll get to use anking next year and won't have to make any decks for the forseeable future but I still have 6 exams in the next like 20 days for finals, so i was hoping to get this down easy in case I needed to quickly make a deck for my biochem or phys final from BRS books. Custom GPTs? I used the prompt from your site. In any case, how do you make a custom GPT?
ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-5cjN2RD70L0.htmlfeature=shared I made video that outlines the process. It's basically a way to fine tune GPT-4 to perform highly specific tasks more effectively with less babysitting 😅
Has she enabled custom prompts? I love ankibrain! I haven't used it in months tho. This method is free but more cumbersome. It's also an old video so lots of new things are out there. (Like ankibrain)
Hi ! In veterinary school and new Anki user. Interested in what constitutes a "good" card from a "bad" card? Video was super helpful and informative. I intend on using this method next semester, I waste so much time making cards and not enough time studying them.
The "good card"/"bad card" distinction ends up being highly subjective. For me, I like cloze deletion cards that are very short (<20-40 words), test 1-2 keyword deletions per card, focus on the most essential concept required to understand the overall idea (punchline). I want to be able to do the flashcard in less than 10 seconds (ideally 3-6 seconds). Cloze deletion cards are less cognitively taxing which allows me to cover more material before burning out. I utilize the notes section of the flashcard to expound more upon the topic and provide more context to the very short flashcard, so if I forget a concept, I have everything I need in the notes section to refresh the topic before moving on to the next card. Lots of people may disagree with that, and that's fine. Anki is highly customizable. I've experimented with MANY different styles of cards over the past 8 years and this is the style I've settled on. Some decent examples of this style would be the Zanki Step 1 deck. If there is a "good" quality pre-made deck, I prefer using that over creating my own cards. I'd rather spend my time studying and then testing myself rather than making cards by hand.
Hey Jake, I've been experimenting with your methods for a few weeks and I've been happy with them so far but I saw someone on Reddit say they tried to use chat GPT to answer questions with imputed text and it got a lot of things wrong and this raised some concern for me. Using your methods have you found there to be a problem with accuracy even if you provide it with text?
It's definitely possible that it can get things wrong. It's not actually concerned about providing factually correct statements. It's trying to give you what it thinks the correct answer looks like. It makes an inference which means it may not have all the information but it will fill in the gaps (hallucination). You can mitigate the risk of it hallucinating false information by explicitly telling it that it should not add any information that is not contained within the source text. This works quite well for me. At this point tho we probably shouldnt hand over the task 100% to LLMs. You still have to screen for quality. It also helps if you can trust the source text you're using.
@@JakeRommMD Thanks for the quick reply! Yeah I was hoping to hand over the keys completely but I guess I can't go into lazy mode completely. What's your workflow, then? Do you thoroughly read the text before making the cards? And sorry about all the questions. I'm about to start my intern year and I'm terrified at the mountain of information I'll have to review after I recover from my 4th year med student dementia.
For my first year of radiology I would read through a chapter at a pretty decent pace, just making mental notes of sections I thought were pretty good, and then turn the entire chapter (or the specific sections) into flashcards. I started out just pasting everything that gpt gave me, but my decks ballooned to unsustainable levels. Now I'm much more selective about which cards I keep. I don't have the same time to study that I used to. More recently I actually do more studying of case books. I know the basic background info, now I need practice applying the information. So more recently I almost exclusively use gpt to write python scripts to extract the images and text from these cases and make them into anki cards (which gpt also designs). I'm working on a sort of guide for this more recent workflow for people to reference.
Thanks much Jake. I am in the same boat as you. Correction! Smaller boat and a lot more smellier. I am a veterinary neurology and neurosurgery resident with a wife, kids, in-laws, and a dog. ;), This is really helping. I have to take general IM boards first and this helps with all the cardio, entero, and other smelly and necessary headaches. My sincere thanks.
I just watched your other video and came here. This one looks like a superior method. I can't wait to try it. Thanks! P.S. you can link your newer videos in your description of the older videos.
