flashcard-maker

Helps create flash cards with minimal effort

Prerequisites

requests >= 2.24.0
keyboard >= 0.13.5
pyperclip >= 1.8.1

(Must have Python 3.7+ installed)

Download the files from the GitHub
Navigate to the directory you downloaded and run the command python -m pip install -r requirements.txt

Open either windows_collect.py or windows_collect.exe
It will ask if you want to clear the current flash cards. Just enter y and press enter
Once the program says it is running, you can begin to make your flash cards
Navigate to where you want to make flash cards
When you are ready, select a question for your flash card and press ctrl+c to copy the text you selected
The program will automatically take that text and put it as the question for a flash card.
Then, select the answer you want for the flash card and press ctrl+c to copy the text you selected
The program will automatically take that text and put it as the answer for a flash card.
You can continue to do steps 7 and 8 until you have created the amount of flash cards you want
Once you are done making flash cards, close the program you opened in step 1

When you are done making your flash cards, you are going to want to convert what the program outputs into something usable
Open either create_cards.py or create_cards.exe
The program will ask you if you want to create a PDF, or a CSV file. Choosing the PDF option will give you a pdf document of your flash cards that you can print right away. Choosing the CSV file option will give you a .csv file that has your questions in one column and your answers in another column. This is useful if you want to use your flashcards in another program.
After choosing the output you want, press enter
If you choose the PDF option, the program will put a document named flashcards.pdf in the output folder. By default, the program will automatically open the pdf for you.
If you choose the CSV option, the program will put a document named flashcards.csv in the output folder. You can then use this csv file as you want.