Flashback

Flashback is an exam preparation tool that turns any course material into AI flashcards, quizzes and study chat. Flashback turns PDFs, Notion pages, YouTube videos and pasted text into AI-generated flashcards, quizzes and a conversational study partner, with Anki export for students who already use spaced repetition.

Flashback is an AI study partner that converts course material into active recall exercises. The premise is simple: instead of rereading notes and slides, a student feeds in source material and gets back flashcards, practice quizzes and a conversational partner for testing recall. The tool accepts input from several directions, including pasted text, uploaded PDFs, linked YouTube videos and connected Notion pages, so material does not need to be retyped or restructured before it becomes a study set. Once material is imported, three study modes cover different phases of preparation. Flashcard generation builds decks for spaced review and can export to Anki, which matters for students already committed to that ecosystem. Quiz generation produces multiple-choice questions drawn from the course material, alongside free response questions that the AI checks, with instant feedback on each answer. The chat mode turns the model into a study partner for conversational active recall: explaining a topic out loud, typing answers, and asking follow-up questions when a concept does not land. Voice input is supported, which suits the explain-it-back style of self-testing. The audience is mainly students in higher education or exam preparation who already have dense source material and need to convert it into retrieval practice. Because the import step accepts everyday formats, the workflow fits between a lecture and a study session rather than replacing either. Flashback positions itself against generic chat assistants that answer questions but do not structure review, and against manual flashcard apps that require the student to author every card. The homepage cites retrieval practice and productive failure research as the basis for its approach, which is the right framing for a tool built around testing rather than summarizing. Practical use looks like this: drop in a PDF or Notion page, generate a deck, run a quiz, then use chat to work through weak spots. The main friction is front-loaded, since output quality depends on how clean the source material is.