The gap between "I watched the lecture" and "I know the material" is active recall. But hand-making flashcards from an hour of video is the kind of chore that means you never do it.
So ask a CloudAxis specialist to do it. Give it the lecture video and say how many cards you want; it produces a question/answer deck from the content, saved as a file you can study from or import.
How to make a deck
Enable Video Notes, share the lecture URL (or watch a live tab via the cloud browser), and ask: "Make 30 flashcards from this lecture for spaced repetition." The specialist works from the transcript, writes cards that test the concepts rather than trivia, and saves the deck to your workspace as CSV (and JSON), so it's easy to review or import into a spaced-repetition app.
Cards that test understanding
The lecture template aims for cards that matter — definitions, cause-and-effect, "why" questions — not "what minute did the professor say X." You can steer it with a focus ("only the second half on thermodynamics") so the deck matches what you actually need to learn.
Honest limits
Card quality follows audio and caption quality — a clear lecture yields good cards; a muffled recording yields weaker ones. It reflects what the lecturer said, so an error in the lecture becomes an error on a card — review the deck before you trust it. Video Notes is available from the Growth plan, and watching a live tab uses browser minutes.
Frequently asked questions
What format are the flashcards?
Saved to your workspace as CSV (and JSON) — a question/answer structure you can review directly or import into a spaced-repetition app.
Will the cards be accurate?
They reflect what the lecture says, so review before relying on them — Video Notes captures the content faithfully, but it can't correct an error the lecturer made.
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