cardsmith: offline flashcards from your own PDFs, checked against the source

Описание и применение

cardsmith автоматически генерирует флешкарты из PDF, PPTX и текстовых файлов, проверяя цитаты на наличие в исходном тексте, и сохраняет их в локальной базе данных с алгоритмом SM‑2, позволяя экспортировать в Anki.

Задача

Creating flashcards from long PDFs or slide decks manually is time‑consuming, leading users to skip active recall and rely on weaker rereading.

Результат

On a 3,248‑word biology chapter, cardsmith produced 152 cards in ~13 minutes, with 92.5% factual accuracy after manual review.

Рабочий процесс

• Point cardsmith at a PDF, PPTX, or text file
• cardsmith splits the document into 120‑900 word chunks
• each chunk is sent to a local Ollama model (default qwen3:4b)
• model generates flashcards with a verbatim source_quote
• cardsmith checks if source_quote is an exact substring of the chunk
• flagged cards are shown in preview for editing or deletion
• cards are stored in a local SQLite database with SM‑2 scheduler
• grade cards with four buttons to record recall quality
• export deck to .apkg via genanki for Anki use

Доказательства

The mechanical quote check matched 142 of 152 cards to an exact substring of the source text. I then hand rated a 40 card sample against the source and found 37 factually accurate, 1 inaccurate, and 2 unusable, for 92.5 percent accuracy.

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