Flashcard Maker
Paste your terms and definitions, one pair per line, and use them three ways: study them on screen as flip cards with shuffle and a known pile, print them double-sided with each definition lined up behind its term, or send them to Anki or Quizlet. Free, no sign-up, and your cards never leave your browser.
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Type or paste at least one card to study, print or export.
How to Use the Flashcard Maker
- 1. Paste your cards. One card per line: the term, a separator, then the definition. A list copied from a spreadsheet, a Quizlet export or your notes usually works as it is.
- 2. Study on screen. Flip a card by clicking it or pressing Space, move with the arrow keys, and press I know this to take a card out of the rotation. Shuffle to break the order you learned them in, or show definitions first to practise in reverse.
- 3. Print a set. Choose the paper, how many cards per page and how your printer turns the sheet, then print double-sided and cut along the dashed lines.
- 4. Or export. Copy for Quizlet puts the cards on your clipboard ready to paste; Download for Anki saves a text file that Anki imports directly.
Formatting Your Cards
Each line becomes one card. With Detect automatically, a tab always splits the line; otherwise the first spaced dash or colon does, and a comma is used only when there is neither — commas turn up inside terms ("Paris, France") far more often than dashes do. A dash only counts with a space either side, so hyphenated words such as self-esteem are never split. Lines with no separator are listed so you can fix them.
All of these make the same kind of card
osmosis diffusion of water across a membrane
osmosis - diffusion of water across a membrane
osmosis: diffusion of water across a membrane
osmosis, diffusion of water across a membrane
If your definitions contain colons or dashes, choose the separator yourself instead of relying on detection — or use tabs, which is what a spreadsheet gives you when you copy two columns.
Printing Double-Sided Cards That Line Up
Fronts print on odd pages and backs on even pages. When the sheet is turned over, left and right (or top and bottom) swap, so the back pages are mirrored to match: the definition for the top-left term prints top-right on the back when your printer flips on the long edge, and bottom-left when it flips on the short edge.
| Front position | Back, long-edge flip | Back, short-edge flip |
|---|---|---|
| Row 1, left | Row 1, right | Row 4, left |
| Row 1, right | Row 1, left | Row 4, right |
| Row 4, left | Row 4, right | Row 1, left |
- Print at 100% scale with default margins. Scaling or custom margins move the grid on the page, which makes the cards bigger or smaller than intended and leaves the dashed lines out of step with your cutter. Turn off the browser's headers and footers for a clean sheet.
- Match the paper size. Choose US Letter or A4 here and the same size in the print dialog.
- Most printers flip on the long edge for portrait pages. If your backs come out upside down, switch to Flip on short edge.
- No duplex printer? Print the odd pages (most print dialogs can select odd or even pages, or you can type 1, 3, 5 and so on), put the stack back in the tray, and print the even pages. Try it with one sheet first to learn which way round to reload the paper.
- Cut on the front. The dashed cut lines are printed on the term side only, so a slightly misaligned back never shows a stray line.
Exporting to Anki and Quizlet
Both exports put a tab between term and definition and a new line between cards. The Anki file also starts with two header lines, #separator:tab and #html:false, which Anki 2.1.54 and later read to set the import options for you; any field containing a double quote is wrapped in quotes so Anki's importer keeps it intact. Line breaks and tabs inside a card are turned into spaces, because both formats use them to separate cards.
Frequently Asked Questions
- How do I make double-sided flashcards that line up?
- Choose Fronts and backs, print double-sided at 100% scale, and tell the tool whether your printer flips on the long or short edge. The backs are mirrored so each definition lands directly behind its term. Every duplex printer shifts the second side a little, so print one test sheet first and check the scale and margin settings in the print dialog.
- How do I import flashcards into Quizlet?
- Click Copy for Quizlet, start a new study set in Quizlet, choose Import, and paste. Leave the options on Tab between term and definition and New line between cards, which match what the tool copied.
- How do I import flashcards into Anki?
- Click Download for Anki, then in Anki choose File, then Import, and pick the downloaded file. The file's header lines tell Anki it is tab-separated plain text, so the first column goes to the front of each note and the second to the back. Check the note type and deck in the import window before confirming.
- Which separator should I use?
- Tabs are the safest, because they never appear inside a term or definition — copying two columns from a spreadsheet gives you tab-separated lines. A spaced dash or a colon works well for typed lists. Use commas only when your definitions have none of their own, or choose the separator manually.
- What does "I know this" do?
- It moves the current card to a known pile so the rest of the session only shows cards you still need. The progress line counts how many are known, and Start over brings every card back. Retrieval practice works best when you only mark a card known after recalling it without peeking.
- Are my flashcards saved?
- No. The cards exist only in this page while it is open: nothing is uploaded or stored. Keep your list in a document, or export it to Anki or Quizlet, so you can paste it back in next time.