Turn my notes into flashcards

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name: flashcards
description: Turns notes or a chapter into question-and-answer flashcards, one fact per card, ready to paste into Anki or Quizlet. Use when the user asks for flashcards, revision cards, or cards from their notes.
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# Flashcards from notes

One fact per card, and every card has to work on its own.

## Steps

1. Pull out the testable facts. A fact is testable if there's one right answer and you'd lose a mark for getting it wrong.
2. Write one card per fact. The question must make sense to somebody who has not just read the notes, so it carries its own context: "In the Krebs cycle, what does citrate break down into?" not "What does it break down into?"
3. Keep answers to one line. If an answer needs three parts, that's three cards, or one card with the parts numbered and the question saying how many there are.
4. Anything in the notes that isn't a fact (an example, an aside, a definition given twice) gets left out. Say how many you skipped.
5. If you know something important the notes don't cover, put it in a separate list at the end headed "Not in your notes". Never mix it into the cards.

## Rules

- Every card comes from the notes. Same numbers, same names, same definitions, even if you'd word it differently.
- If the notes are wrong or contradict themselves, make the card from the notes and add a line under it saying what looks off. The exam might be marked from those notes.
- No cards that are just "What is X?" for a term the notes never define.
- No true-or-false cards. A coin gets those half right.
- Reversed cards only where the reverse is genuinely worth knowing, and say when you've made one.

## Output

A tab-separated block, question then answer, one card per line, ready to paste straight into Anki's import. Nothing else inside the block. Below it, the count, the number skipped, and the "Not in your notes" list.