Notes to flashcards means turning the text of an existing note into a set of question-and-answer study cards automatically. In Luma, you open a note and generate flashcards from it; the cards are editable, saved to a study set linked to that note, and reviewable in a flip-card session that tracks which ones you've mastered.
AI notes to flashcards generation, built into the same app where you already take notes — no separate deck-building app or manual card writing required.
Flashcards work as a study method mainly because of active recall — trying to retrieve an answer from memory before checking it is more effective than re-reading notes passively. Luma's flip-card review (question first, answer on flip) is built around that principle.
Spaced repetition — the practice of reviewing material at increasing intervals right before you're about to forget it — is a separate, more specific technique used by dedicated apps like Anki, which calculate an exact next-review date per card using an algorithm. Luma doesn't do that scheduling. Instead, it gives you a simpler mastered/not-mastered status per card and a daily study session that surfaces cards you haven't mastered yet, which supports repeated review over time without a fixed spacing algorithm.
If you want strict, algorithmic spaced repetition, a dedicated flashcard app is the more precise tool. If you want flashcards generated directly from the notes you're already taking, without switching apps or re-typing content, that's what this feature is for.
Students preparing for exams get the most direct value: capture a lecture with voice-to-notes, clean it up, then generate flashcards to review before the test — see our full guide for note-taking for students.
It's also useful for anyone learning terminology or facts for work — onboarding material, a new domain's vocabulary, or certification prep — where turning existing notes into a quick review deck saves you from building flashcards by hand. Start from a template if you're not sure how to structure notes for good flashcard generation.
Open a note and generate flashcards from it. Luma reads the note's text and produces a set of question-and-answer pairs based on the content, which you can flip through immediately, edit, and save as a study set tied back to that note.
Yes. Generated cards aren't locked in — you can review each question and answer before saving, and adjust wording so it matches how you actually think about the material.
Luma tracks which cards you've reviewed and lets you mark cards as mastered, so you can focus study sessions on what's left to learn instead of cards you already know. It is not a full spaced-repetition algorithm like Anki's SM-2 scheduler that reschedules each card to a calculated future date — it's a simpler mastered/not-mastered review flow built into your daily study session.
Generating flashcards from a note uses one of your daily AI actions on the free plan (5 per day). Reviewing, flipping, and marking cards as mastered afterward doesn't use additional AI actions. Premium ($2.99/month or $24.99/year) removes the daily cap.
Notes with clear facts, definitions, or concepts — lecture notes, reading summaries, vocabulary lists — generate cleaner question-and-answer pairs than long, unstructured freeform writing. See our tips on lecture notes for a format that generates well.
Yes. Your daily study session pulls together all the cards you've saved across different notes, so you can review vocabulary from one note alongside concepts from another in a single session.
50 notes and 5 AI actions a day included, no credit card.