Paste a lecture transcript or open a PDF and get headings, a short summary and key terms, ready to turn into flashcards or a quiz. Everything happens in this browser tab and your text is never uploaded. It is free.
How to make study notes, step by step
- Paste your text into the Transcript or text box, or press Open a file. Press Try an example to see the result first.
- Add a Title if you like, and choose Brief, Balanced or Full for the length.
- Press Make notes.
- Copy the Markdown, or save the notes as Word or PDF. Use Make flashcards or Make a quiz to keep studying.
How the notes are made
The text is cleaned first: caption timestamps, cue numbers and filler words such as “um” are removed. Headings already in the text are kept. When there are none, the text is split where the topic changes and each part is named after its main terms. The most important sentences of each part become the bullet points, and sentences such as “Glucose is a simple sugar” become key terms with their definitions.
From notes to flashcards and quizzes
Every key term with a definition becomes a card with the term on the front. Terms without a definition become fill-in-the-blank cards made from a sentence in your text. Make flashcards opens them as a new deck in Flashcards, and Make a quiz opens them in the quiz maker, where you can print a test with an answer key.
What works best
Clear, complete sentences give the best notes, so a cleaned-up transcript works better than rough fragments. The tool also works with transcripts from speech to text and the lecture recorder, SRT and VTT captions, and PDFs that contain text. Scanned PDFs need to be made searchable first, because the notes are built from the text inside the file.
Is the summary written by AI?
By default the notes are made from your own sentences, picked and ordered by how central they are to the text, so nothing is made up. If your browser has a built-in summarizer, you can ask it to write the summary instead. It runs on your device as well.
Who uses it
- Students turning lectures and readings into revision notes.
- Teachers preparing summaries and quick quizzes from a lesson.
- Office teams condensing a long recorded call into key points.
- Anyone with a long article they want to skim.
Questions
Can I trust the notes?
They are a first draft built from your own text. Read them over and edit anything that needs it.
Does it work on a scanned PDF?
Only after the PDF has been made searchable, because it needs real text to read.
Is my text sent anywhere?
No. The text is processed in your browser.