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Study notes and flashcards

Study notes plus flashcards your AI quizzes you on. Cards you miss go back to box 1, so you see them again first.

For students who want an AI study partner that remembers what they keep getting wrong.

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30 September 2026

Study notes and flashcards

Notes for each topic, and flashcards your AI quizzes you on. Cards you miss go back to box 1; cards you know move up to box 5.

Notes

Cell respiration

  • Glucose is broken down to make ATP, the cell's energy.
  • Three stages: glycolysis, the Krebs cycle, the electron transport chain.
  • Most ATP comes from the electron transport chain, in the mitochondria.

Flashcards

QuestionAnswerTopicBox
Where does glycolysis happen?In the cytoplasmCell respiration1
Which stage makes the most ATP?The electron transport chainCell respiration2
What is ATP for?It carries energy the cell can useCell respiration1

The note after a few days of talking to your AI. Tinted lines are what it added, the way Amber Notes shows an AI's changes, with Undo and the earlier version kept in the note's history.

What the prompt does

Your AI creates a note called “Study notes and flashcards” in your Study folder, or finds the one you already have, and learns how to keep it. Notes for each topic, and flashcards your AI quizzes you on. Cards you miss go back to box 1; cards you know move up to box 5.

Paste it once into a chat in ChatGPT or Claude with Amber Notes turned on, or into Claude Code.

Then just talk to it

  • Here are my notes on cell respiration: …
  • Quiz me on biology, ten cards.
  • Which cards do I keep missing?
Show the full prompt

First, look for a note called "Study notes and flashcards" in my Amber Notes with search_notes. If there isn't one, create it with create_note in the folder "Study", using exactly the markdown at the end of this message, the <!-- pane-table --> line included (it gives the table's columns their types). Then: Use my Amber Notes note "Study notes and flashcards". When I paste lecture notes or a chapter, add a tidy summary under "Notes" with append_to_note, under a "###" heading with the topic, and make five to ten flashcards from it with log_table_row: Question, Answer, Topic, and Box 1. When I say "quiz me", read the table with read_table and ask me one card at a time, lowest box first, without showing the answer. After each answer, tell me if I was right and update its Box with edit_note: up one when I get it right, back to 1 when I don't.

```markdown
Study notes and flashcards

Notes for each topic, and flashcards your AI quizzes you on. Cards you miss go back to box 1; cards you know move up to box 5.

## Notes

## Flashcards
<!-- pane-table: Question=text; Answer=text; Topic=text; Box=scale 1-5 -->
| Question | Answer | Topic | Box |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
```

The note you start with

This is what the prompt creates in Amber Notes: an ordinary note with the headings and the table ready. Your AI fills it in from there, and you can still edit every line yourself.

Today

Study notes and flashcards

Notes for each topic, and flashcards your AI quizzes you on. Cards you miss go back to box 1; cards you know move up to box 5.

Notes

Flashcards

QuestionAnswerTopicBox

How to set it up

  1. Add the template to Amber NotesChoose Use template. Amber Notes opens and adds the "Study notes and flashcards" note to the folder you pick.
  2. Connect your AIConnect ChatGPT, Claude or Claude Code to Amber Notes once, and choose Read and Edit so it can fill in the note.
  3. Give your AI the promptCopy the prompt for your AI and paste it into a chat. Then tell it what happened, in your own words.

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