How to Turn Your Notes Into Flashcards With the AI Tutors Skill

The AI Tutors Flashcards skill is deliberately narrow: give it source material, get back cards in aitutors.me's own format, paste them into the import page. That simplicity is the point, but a few things about how you feed it material make a real difference to what you get back. This is a practical walkthrough, not a feature list.

What you're actually handing it

The skill accepts notes, a page of a textbook, or a topic description — it doesn't need a polished study guide. What it needs is enough specificity to identify individual, testable facts. "Photosynthesis" as a bare topic will produce broader, more generic cards than a paragraph explaining the light-dependent and light-independent reactions, because the skill can only extract facts that are actually present in what you give it. More raw material, more precise cards — the skill doesn't invent detail you didn't provide.

Step 1: give it real source text, not a vague ask

Paste the actual notes or textbook excerpt rather than describing the topic from memory. If you're working from a photo of a page, transcribe it first — the skill works from text, and its accuracy depends entirely on the accuracy of what it's reading.

Step 2: let it pick the card kind

Resist the urge to specify "make me basic cards" for everything. The skill distinguishes six card kinds for a reason: a name-and-definition pair genuinely works better as a reversible card (tested both directions) than as two separate basic cards you'd have to write yourself; a sentence with one blank wants a cloze deletion; a sentence with several wants cloze-multi, which fans out into one card per blank automatically rather than you splitting it by hand. Naming the kind yourself usually produces a worse result than letting the skill match kind to material.

Step 3: expect it to say no sometimes

If you ask for a card and the fact you've described genuinely needs two pieces of information to be complete, the skill will split it into two cards rather than force it into one. This can feel like more cards than you expected — it's the "one fact per card" rule in action, and it's there because a card that needs "and" in its answer tests worse than two clean cards.

Similarly, if a hint you'd naturally reach for would contain a word from the answer itself, the skill won't use it. This is worth understanding rather than fighting: a hint that repeats the answer's own vocabulary isn't actually a hint, it's a half-reveal, and the skill is built to catch that specific failure before it reaches a real study session.

Step 4: mind the batch size

Aitutors.me caps a single import at eight cards. If you've got a chapter's worth of material, ask for it in batches rather than one long request — the skill will offer to split a bigger set into multiple JSON blocks rather than silently dropping anything past the eighth card, but it's smoother if you plan for the split up front.

Step 5: import and check the deck

The output is plain JSON, pasted at aitutors.me/study/cards/new/import. It lands as a private draft deck in your own account — nothing is shared or moderated by anyone else at that stage. Worth a quick read-through before you start reviewing it for real: even a well-built skill benefits from a human eye checking that the fan-out (a cloze-multi sentence becoming several cards, a reversible pair becoming two directions) landed the way you expected.

What this is not for

The skill holds no curriculum knowledge and runs no tutoring session — it won't check whether your notes are correct, only whether the cards built from them are well-formed. If you're not confident the source material itself is accurate, get that right first; a well-formed card built on a wrong fact is still a wrong fact, just a more memorable one.

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