You'll end up with: Turn every lecture into a study guide, flashcards and a weekly quiz
One notebook per course, flashcards for what you must remember, and a short daily routine. It works with the readings and slides you already have.
Monthly, for the whole setup. Most people can start on the free tiers.
Your course tutor: answers only from your own materials.
Turns notes into clean flashcards and explains hard ideas.
Shows each card right before you'd forget it.
Fixes scanned or huge PDFs so the AI can read them.
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Start with one course, not all of them. Put its slides, readings and your own notes in one folder (Google Drive works well). PDFs, Google Docs and slide decks are all fine.
Check it worked: You have one folder with this week's materials in it.
Open NotebookLM, create a new notebook named after the course, and add your files as sources. NotebookLM answers from these sources and shows where each answer came from.
Check it worked: Your files appear in the Sources panel, each with a summary.
Paste this prompt into the notebook chat. Click the numbered citations to check anything that looks off.
Make a study guide for this course from my sources. Give me: 1) the 10 most important ideas, each explained in two plain sentences, 2) key terms with one-line definitions, 3) the five questions most likely to come up in an exam. Use only my sources.
Check it worked: Every point in the guide has a citation you can click.
Copy the study guide into Claude with this prompt. You'll get one card per line, in a format Anki can import.
Turn the study guide below into 25 flashcards. One card per line, in the format: question;answer. Keep each answer under 20 words. No numbering, no extra text. [paste your study guide here]
Check it worked: Each line has exactly one semicolon between question and answer.
Save Claude's answer as a plain .txt file. In Anki on your computer choose File → Import, pick the file, set the field separator to semicolon, and choose a deck named after the course.
Check it worked: The deck shows 25 new cards, with questions on the front.
Daily: 15–20 minutes of Anki reviews. Weekly: add the new lecture to the notebook, repeat steps 3–5 for it, then quiz yourself with the prompt below.
Quiz me on this week's material, one question at a time. Wait for my answer, tell me if I'm right, and explain using my sources. Start easy and get harder.
Check it worked: After a week, your Anki reviews take less time each day.
It's probably a scanned image. Run it through a PDF-to-text (OCR) tool such as iLovePDF, then add the new file as a source.
The separator was wrong. Delete the deck, import again and choose Semicolon as the field separator.
Click its citation. If the source doesn't say it, ask: "Show me exactly where my sources say this." Trust your lecture over the AI.
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