How to Turn Goodnotes Notes Into Flashcards in Nibomo
Two circled points and a minus sign in the margin can be the reason you want to study a page. If you added those marks in Goodnotes, export that page as a PDF and give it to Nibomo AI to make new flashcards. Start with one page where a small detail matters so you have something specific to check.
Use the copy that has what you want to study
If the original lecture PDF has everything you need, upload it directly to Nibomo. Export from Goodnotes when the material you want is in your handwriting, highlights, or drawings. If your notes refer to a diagram on another page, include that page in the export too.
Already have flashcards in a Goodnotes Study Set? Goodnotes exports Study Sets as .goodnotes files, which Nibomo doesn’t accept. The PDF workflow below makes new cards from notebook pages. It doesn’t transfer a Study Set or its review history. If you still have the original spreadsheet you used to make a text-only Study Set, you can paste its front and back columns into Nibomo.
Export your Goodnotes notebook or pages as a PDF
On iPhone, iPad, or Mac: Open the notebook. Use Share → Export All for the whole notebook or Share → Export This Page for the current page. For several pages, open the thumbnail view with the four-square icon, choose Select, pick the pages, then choose Export. Choose PDF and save the file.
On Android, Windows, or the web: Open the notebook and choose Share → Export as PDF. Use Page Range to pick the whole notebook or just the pages you need, then start the export. If you weren’t asked where to save the file, check Downloads. See Goodnotes’ export instructions for both sets of steps.
Before uploading, open the PDF and zoom in on a mark you added. Can you read the smallest symbol and tell which label goes with which part of the diagram? If handwriting or highlights are missing and your export options show Include Annotation, turn it on and export again. Turn on Include Page Background if the page template contains an axis, a table, or anything else you need. Goodnotes explains both settings.
Make flashcards from the PDF in Nibomo
- Open the Nibomo web app and switch to the workspace where you want the cards.
- Go to Library → Import → Import from another app.
- Select Choose files and pick your PDF. The limit is 30 MiB per file. If the file is too big, export fewer pages per PDF so you can keep the small details legible.
- Select Start import. Nibomo opens an AI chat and sends the PDF with a request to make cards in that workspace. You’ll need an internet connection.
- Once the chat reports what it saved, open Library → Cards and compare a few fronts and backs with the source.
Try one graph before importing the rest
Say you circled the points (1, 6) and (3, 2) on a graph and wrote “−2” beside the line. In the exported PDF, find both points and make sure the minus sign is visible. In Nibomo, read the card front before you flip it. “What’s the slope of this line?” needs the graph; “What’s the slope of the line through (1, 6) and (3, 2)?” has enough information on its own. The back should say −2: from the first point to the second, y goes down 4 while x goes up 2.
If the minus sign is missing in the PDF, fix the export first. If it’s there and the saved answer says 2, correct the card before you review it. If you want to practice reading the graph itself, put a legible crop on the front and leave the handwritten answer out of the crop.
For dense handwriting, you can attach the PDF to a new Nibomo AI chat and ask to see a draft before it saves anything. Try: “Read the two circled coordinates and the handwritten slope. Tell me if you can’t read a mark. Show me one draft card and wait before saving it.” Check the draft against Goodnotes, correct anything the chat misread, then ask it to save the card. The Nibomo import guide covers both ways to start.
Nibomo publishes this guide. AI helped research and write it using Goodnotes’ support pages and Nibomo’s import documentation and web app code. The graph is an example you can try.