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Finals are just around the corner, which means it’s crunch time. If you’re a student, then you’ve been saving your notes and class handouts in Evernote. Now, imagine if you could quickly and seamlessly transform your class materials into flashcards. Evernote’s integration with StudyBlue lets you do just that.
StudyBlue + Evernote: Digital flashcards, study reminders and more
Evernote helps you keep everything in one place so that you can access your notes, files, and scanned handouts from any device. Meanwhile, StudyBlue is a service for university students that lets you create slick digital flashcards and study guides from your notes. The integration means that you can do even more with the content that you save in Evernote–helping you study more efficiently and effectively. Beyond polishing your knowledge by creating flashcards, you can create customized quizzes, study reminders, and test yourself even when you’re out and about.
How it works
When you create an account with StudyBlue, you can now choose the option to ‘Sync with Your Evernote account.’ Here’s how to make it work:
- Go to your profile page in StudyBlue and find Evernote under ‘Connections.’ Choose to sync with your Evernote account.
- The integration will create a new Notebook Stack in your Evernote account called StudyBlue. Each new class you add in StudyBlue will create a new notebook in this Stack (for example, Psychology 101).
- To get started, go into Evernote and create or drag notes into the appropriate StudyBlue notebooks.
- After the initial sync, you’ll be able to access your Evernote notes from your StudyBlue account to start creating your flashcards. Any new notes you add to your StudyBlue Evernote folder will appear in your StudyBlue account upon synchronization.
- To create a flashcard, click on the note you want to use and select ‘Retype as Flashcards’ from the View As menu. From there, you’ll be able to create flashcards based on the materials you’ve selected without having to scroll up and down on the page—the flashcards will automatically appear above the note that you’re working on.
You can copy and paste text from all notes (except PDFs) into flashcards directly. Once you’ve created flashcards, you can quiz yourself when you’re at the library, the coffee shop, or on the go. You can review key concepts, share with friends, and set reminders to keep yourself on track. If you forget something, click ‘Remind Yourself’ to bring up your note, re-read it and solidify your understanding of the concepts before quizzing yourself again.
StudyBlue+
Upgrading to StudyBlue+ gives you some additional features such as allowing you to merge flashcard decks with other classmates and printing shared notes to study online. StudyBlue+ is available for $4.99/day, $9.99/month or $59.99/year.
Premium Evernote users and Sponsored Accounts
Premium Evernote account holders can save any file types in their Evernote account to be used in conjunction with StudyBlue, and take advantage of larger monthly upload allowance (1GB/month).
If you’re student or a teacher, and are interested in receiving a group discount on multiple Evernote Premium accounts for your class, check out Sponsored Accounts—an easy way to manage multiple Premium Accounts from one bill. Note that Qualifying educational institutions receive a 50% discount off of the Evernote Premium price when signing up for Sponsored Accounts.
If you’re in the New York area, join us for an evening discussion on how to use Evernote in an education setting. Panelists from Evernote’s first school deployment The Montclair Kimberley Academy in Montclair, New Jersey), as well as several Evernote representatives will showcase ways to use Evernote for teaching and learning. RSVP here.
11 Comments
Christine
I think a great (yet complicated) feature would be to automatically have notes convert from a table (2 columns) directly to flashcards without studying! (left side = “term”, right side = “definition”) With the amount of material I have to study, it would take hours just to make a deck!
StudyBlue
Christine – StudyBlue makes this easy. This feature is all set and waiting for you! Create an account, click “Create Flashcards”, then look for “Import” on left hand side. Upload a two-column spreadsheet and watch the magic happen.
Sincerely, StudyBlue
StudyBlue
We’re excited to be a part of the Evernote team! We’ll be checking back here every so often to answer any questions you may have.
Of course, your best bet is to create an account and experience digital flashcards for yourself.
- The StudyBlue Team
jay
whoa! this is gonna be helpful, the ability to pretest your knowledge is such a sweet feature! thank you!
Carlos
I tried many times to look where is the submenu -Retype as flashcards- but it doesnt show on my menu, Any thoughts? Tnx for your great idea!
TaMar
I’m excited to try out this application. I mentor law students. I’m recommending this to all of them as a great way to tackle the weirdness of one’s first year of school.
Olu
I can’t seem to be able to sync Evernote and StudyBlue. Evernote tell sme that StudyBlue has access, but 1) there is no new stack, and 2) StudyBlue tells me everytime I try syncing that there is “Trouble connecting to Evernote”. What can I do?
Kasey Fleisher Hickey
Please contact StudyBlue support.
Chee
How do I sync EverNote and StudyBlue without creating a class? It did it the first time I link the 2 apps together. Now I can’t do it anymore.
Andrew
I was excited, but now I’m not impressed. You have to manually create each flashcard. Mental if you’ve got 50+ notes. Should be able to auto generate, knowing that it wouldn’t be perfect, as there’s no way I’m cutting and pasting 50+ times.
Great concept, but not there quite yet.
Dmitri Pisarenko
Andrew, you can create an Excel file and then import that file – every row will be translated to a flash card.