Fastest way to make the textbook to anki?

[quick coral]

Yup, like the entire textbook, in one day? Is that even possible, maybe with Add-ons? What if i have the textbook as PDF?

It'd be even better if i don't need the PDF, because i have a different textbook as PDF, but my physical one isn't, but they have the same material

Maybe with my pictures? So I don't need to change my source (still the physical textbook)

[lilac niche]

If you get good at making flashcards and taking notes while reading, you can probably read the textbook + make flashcards in less than double the time it would take you to only read the textbook.

That would be my strong recommendation.

To speed up manual flashcard creation, you can take notes in a text document and then import them all at once when you're done. That may be quicker than making them one at a time in Anki.

Alternatively, for a lot of stuff, you can use Image Occlusion (take a picture and block out certain parts).

You can search for AI Flashcards + Anki to find one of the many mediocre tools to automatically generate flashcards. This will almost certainly be a bad idea and not help you on your tests as much as you'd like.

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Also, unrelated, but for memorizing poetry / passages / answers verbatim, I've recommended this addon before.

[dawn shore]

Converting a whole text into cards is Incremental Reading, even though you're trying to do it all at once, even if you don't use an addon for it, even if you only take the first pass through this time. This ends up being complex especially when done correctly, just because there's so much going on. Sure your first card-creation pass through the text might collect most of the knowledge, but later it'll have to be edited (because of reasons: as your understanding improves, to add mnemonics for encoding, when you notice the cloze deletion gives too much context, because you only added vocab words but then there are concepts that build on that in the paragraphs, because you didn't disambiguate similar things, because your opinion of which parts are important enough to commit to memory changes, etc)

• current-best anki addon for IR https://ankiweb.net/shared/info/1250212877
• supermemo explanation of how IR works https://help.supermemo.org/wiki/Incremental_reading
  🤖 AI tools cannot be trusted. If you choose to use one, tell it to only use the text as a source, and turn the temperature down to 0. If the temperature is any higher, it can hallucinate content. If it does, the output won't match the source text, which leads to you memorizing lies, which makes it more difficult to correct those memories later.

Always use the digital copy of things like your life depends on it, just so copying doesn't take hours. Get your teacher to provide the key or pdf or ebook, or your parents to go buy the ebook. Do not accept a perishable key for website access that disappears as soon as your student email does. Only downloading the whole book and public website access are acceptable, to future-proof your access to the content when you need to edit a card years later.

[quick coral]

How can i do image occlusion fast?

Can i do it on phone also?

I have a pc tho

It's just I'm faster with using my phone

[quick coral]

That's actually so much helpful