Turn PowerPoint slides into Anki cards.
To make Anki cards from a PowerPoint, open the .PPTX file and highlight what you want to make a card from. Choose the words to hide, then send the cloze card to your Anki deck.
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See your cards side by side with your slides.
Your slides keep their original layout, with the card panel beside them in the same window.
Open the .PPTX file
Open the file directly. You do not need Office or a PDF export.
Highlight to make your card
Highlight the line you want to remember, then choose the word or phrase to hide. You can add as many cloze deletions as you need.
Send to Anki
Choose your deck and tags, then send the card to Anki with one click.
Make cards from tables and diagrams, too.
Lecture slides often put the important detail in a diagram or table. Drag a box around the figure to use it on a card, or cover its labels to make an image occlusion card.
Keep the slide as context
Each card keeps a link to its original slide, with the card painted on the exact source sentence as a highlight. If you need more context while reviewing in Anki, one click opens the source and scrolls to the exact spot the card came from.
Draft cards from a full deck
The optional Anki card generator can draft cloze cards from the full slide deck. Each draft links to its slide for checking before you approve it.
PDF lecture slides work too
Use the same workflow for slides exported as a PDF. See PDF to Anki. You can also make cards from Word documents and websites.
Use the lecture recording
Clozely can turn a lecture video file into a study document with timestamped citations. These can be highlighted like any other document to make cloze cards. See video to Anki.
Questions, answered
Do I need PowerPoint installed?
No. Clozely opens .pptx files directly, so you do not need Office or a PDF export.
My lecture slides are a PDF, not a PPTX. Does that work?
Yes. Open the PDF and use the same highlighting workflow. See PDF to Anki for details.
What happens to the diagrams and tables on the slides?
Simply drag a box around a diagram to add it to the front or back of a cloze card. You can also cover its labels to make image occlusion cards.
Can the AI make cards from a whole slide deck?
Yes. The optional card generator can draft cloze cards from the full deck. Each draft links directly to its slide text for review before you approve it. You can still highlight and write cards yourself without an AI plan.
Start making cards from your PowerPoint files today.
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