From a spreadsheet to flashcards you can study and keep

front,back,hint,topic
CEDAW,"UN treaty against discrimination against women, adopted 1979",International Bill of Rights for Women,Laws
RA 9710,Magna Carta of Women (2009),Enacted in 2009,Laws
Primary sex characteristics,Reproductive organs present from birth,,Lesson 2

Rows with an empty front or back are skipped, and the tool tells you which ones. Leave hint or topic blank on any row that doesn't need one, as in the last row above. Columns beyond these four are ignored unless you assign them in Part 2.

Want a starting point? The tool has sample CSV and tab-delimited downloads under the drop area. Open one in your spreadsheet app and replace the rows with your own.

UTF-8 matters if your cards contain accents, symbols, or non-English text. Other encodings turn characters like é into é. The separator can be a comma, tab, semicolon, or pipe (|), and the tool detects which one you used.

Spreadsheet apps add the quotes for you when they save a CSV, so this only matters when you type a file by hand. The rules are the standard CSV ones:

• A cell containing a comma goes in double quotes: "Education, employment, health"
• A double quote inside a quoted cell is written twice: "the ""comprehensive"" law"
• A line break inside a quoted cell is kept, so answers can span several lines
• In a hand-typed file, \n inside a cell also becomes a line break

Tab-delimited files sidestep all of this, because definitions rarely contain tab characters. If your answers are full of commas, choose tab-delimited when you save.

These header names are recognized, in any capitalization:

Without a header, the columns are read in the order from step 01. Either way, you can reassign any column in the next part.

Files up to 5 MB are accepted, which is thousands of cards. Or paste the text instead opens a box for rows copied straight from a spreadsheet: a copied range pastes as tab-delimited text, which the tool reads correctly. The ↺ button at the top right starts over, and 🌙 switches between light and dark mode.

The line at the top right, such as 9 rows · 4 columns · comma, is the quickest sanity check. Deck title starts as the file name. Change it to something you'll recognize later, because it becomes the title of both downloads.

An amber box under the preview flags anything worth a second look:

• Rows skipped: the front or back was empty, with the file row numbers so you can find them
• Everything is in one column: the separator is wrong, so pick it by hand
• Duplicate fronts: two cards ask the same thing. They are kept, but you may want to merge them
• Front and Back use the same column: fix the pickers before building

Recognizing an answer after you see it feels like knowing it, but it isn't. Commit to an answer before flipping, even a wrong one: the attempt is what makes it stick. The topic appears in the card's top-right corner.

Mark "Got it" only if you had the answer before flipping. Anything slow, partial, or lucky is "Again". In "Again" mode, a card you now know drops out of the pile, so the pile shrinks until it's empty. Start over clears every mark.

• Shuffle: new random order, back to card 1. Use it once you know the deck in file order.
• Show hints: shows each card's hint on the front. It only appears when your file has hints.
• Answer first: shows the back and asks for the front. It's harder, and good for vocabulary and definitions.
• Only "Again" cards: limits the deck to cards you marked "Again".

The file is named after your deck title, for example gender-and-society-sample-deck-flashcards.html. It has the same flip, keys, marks, and options as the tool, plus a light/dark switch. Your "Got it / Again" marks are not saved into it: each time you open the file, you start a fresh pass.

By topic keeps your file's order within each topic, with a row of topic links at the top. If your file has no topic column, this view is labeled In order. A–Z sorts every entry by its front, with a letter bar for jumping. The search box filters either view as you type. To make a PDF, use your browser's Print and choose "Save as PDF": the buttons and search box are left off the printout.