Turn your PDFs and slides into cards worth reviewing

An ordinary card asks you to repeat one line. Most of what you study is not one line: it is a process, a comparison, a mechanism. So Nila writes several kinds of card:

• Question — a question and its answer.
• Cloze — a sentence with the key term hidden.
• Table — a comparison table with cells hidden, so you recall each one in context.
• Pathway — steps in order, with one step hidden. Cycles too.
• Mnemonic — when the material has one worth keeping.
• Multiple choice — with plausible options, graded by how sure you were.
• Connection — one question that joins two ideas.

Any card can carry a table, a pathway, a formula or a short profile under its answer, so you see the fact in its place.

Nila keeps the page of your PDF, or the moment of your recording, that each card was written from. Open Source on a card and the original opens at that page. When an answer looks wrong, or you want the context back, it is one click away instead of a search through 80 slides.

One deck can be made from up to about 40,000 words of material. Older .ppt and .doc files need to be saved as .pptx or .docx first.

Cards are written in the language your material is in. Upload Italian lecture slides and you get Italian cards; add a note if you want them in another language. The app itself is in English, Italian, French and German.

Generated cards are a starting point. Edit the wording, hide a different word, add an image or a table, or write cards from scratch in the editor. Research suggests cards you make or edit yourself are learned better than ready-made ones, so it is worth a minute to make them yours. Ask AI can also check a card against its source, or rewrite it.