How to turn handwritten notes into flashcards
Take a photo of each page of your notes and upload the images to Grader. It reads the handwriting and builds flashcards and questions from what you wrote, so revision material comes straight from your own notes rather than someone else's summary.
Step by step
- 1Create a free account.
- 2Photograph each page. Flat, well lit, and the whole page in frame.
- 3Choose New material and upload the photos together as one material.
- 4Select Flashcards, and any other format you want alongside them.
- 5Study the cards, or answer the questions and get marked.
What to know
Legible beats neat
Handwriting does not need to be tidy, but it does need to be readable. The usual reason a page comes out thin is a photo taken at an angle, in shadow, or with half the page cut off, not the handwriting itself.
Photos, not scans of photos
PNG, JPEG and WebP, up to 20 MB each. Your phone camera is fine. There is no need to run them through a scanning app first.
Several pages, one material
Upload all the pages of a topic as a single material rather than one material per page. The questions are written across everything you uploaded, so a full topic gives better coverage than a page at a time, and on the free plan three materials goes further that way.
Questions
Does it read messy handwriting?
Usually. The limit is legibility rather than neatness. If you can read the photo on your phone at full size, it will generally be readable here too.
What about diagrams I drew myself?
They are read as part of the page. A labelled sketch can become a question in its own right.
Do I have to type my notes out?
No. That is the whole point of this route. Photograph the page and upload it.