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Study Guide Maker: Sections, Key Terms, and a Self-Quiz

Organize your own course notes into a printable study guide: structured sections, a key term and definition table, a summary, and a self-quiz, with clean CSV, Anki, and Quizlet exports.

Used as the heading and the download filename.

Sections

Key terms and definitions

Import separator

Column 1 becomes the term, column 2 the definition. Rows are added to the table above.

A short recap printed at the foot of the guide.

Builds recall prompts from your valid term pairs.

Quiz direction
Export

Make a study guide from your own notes

Type your sections, key terms, and a summary, and the guide assembles below as you go: a key-term table, a self-quiz built from your own pairs, and one-click print. Everything stays editable, and every download is a file you keep and can restructure later.

Key terms, definitions, and a self-quiz

A term pair is exported and quizzed only when both the term and its definition are filled. A row missing either side stays in the table for editing but is flagged and left out of the exports and the quiz, so a half-finished card never ships silently. The self-quiz turns each valid pair into a recall prompt in the direction you choose.

How this guide is structured and encoded

The layout follows the Cornell note-taking method: cue and term column, section notes, and a bottom summary, with the cues doubling as recall prompts. This tool adopts that framing in plain English rather than forcing the literal three-column sheet.

CSV is written to RFC 4180: any field holding a comma, quote, or line break is wrapped in quotes, inner quotes are doubled, rows are joined with CRLF, and a UTF-8 byte-order mark is added so Excel opens it cleanly.

The Anki .txt declares #separator:Tab and #html:true. Because Anki then parses each field as HTML, the shared encoder escapes &, <, and > to entities and encodes a line break as <br>, so a science card like a<b imports as the literal text a<b instead of being swallowed as a tag. The first field is Anki's note-uniqueness key, so notes that share a term merge on import; the tool warns when that will happen.

The Quizlet .tsv uses Quizlet's default import: a tab between term and definition and a new line between rows. Because a new line is Quizlet's row delimiter, an in-field line break is collapsed to a space so a long definition cannot split a card. This same file is the plain-text copy payload. Quizlet and CSV are plain-text targets, so they keep angle brackets and ampersands literal and do not HTML-escape.

Conventions this tool uses

  • A valid term pair needs both fields. A term with no definition is excluded from every export and the quiz, and flagged inline.
  • Duplicate detection is case-insensitive on the trimmed term, computed over the exported valid pairs only. It warns but never blocks; every valid row still exports, and the notice names Anki's first-field merge. A term whose only twin is missing its definition is not counted, because the empty twin is never exported.
  • Column order is term first. Anki's uniqueness key and Quizlet's default both key on the first field, so there is no definition-first option.
  • Download filenames are the slugified guide title, lowercased with non-alphanumeric runs replaced by hyphens. A title with no ASCII letters or digits falls back to study-guide-maker.
Frequently asked questions

What does this tool do with my notes?

It structures the material you type into a printable, reorderable guide and exports it to Anki, Quizlet, and CSV. You write the content; the tool handles the layout, encoding, and downloads.

Why are two of my terms not in the export?

A pair exports only when both the term and its definition are filled. Any row missing a side is flagged in the preview and left out of the CSV, Anki, and Quizlet files and the self-quiz until you complete it.

Why are the Anki and Quizlet files separate?

Anki needs its #separator:Tab and #html:true header and HTML-encoded fields; Quizlet would read those directives as literal card text. Blending them into one file breaks both imports, so each target gets its own correctly encoded artifact.

Sources

  1. The Cornell Note-taking System. Cornell University Learning Strategies Center. Retrieved .
  2. RFC 4180: Common Format and MIME Type for CSV Files. IETF. Retrieved .
  3. Importing text files. Anki. Retrieved .
  4. Create a set by importing content. Quizlet. Retrieved .

How we choose and check our formulas