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Turn lecture slides into practice questions.

A notebook for each system, with the lecture slides, the OpenEvidence answers you meant to keep and your practice questions in one place.

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An example Workspace for a system block, with an OpenEvidence answer just saved next to the renal lectures.

How do medical and nursing students use Kortex?

Medical and nursing students use Kortex, a Chrome extension for Gemini Notebook (formerly NotebookLM), to keep one notebook per system or block, with lecture decks beside the OpenEvidence and ChatGPT answers they want to keep. They turn each notebook into board-style practice questions, flashcards and audio reviews from saved prompts, and check every answer against its cited source.

Where the study hours go

There is a lot to cover. Kortex saves you work in these places.

Hundreds of slides a week, and the exam can ask about any of them.

Give each system or block its own notebook, file them by semester, and filter a notebook to show only its PDFs or only its videos.
The OpenEvidence answer you wanted to keep is gone by the time you revise.

OpenEvidence, ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini get a Send to Notebook button, so the answer lands next to the lecture it belongs with.
Writing practice questions by hand eats the time you meant to spend answering them.

Save a prompt for board-style questions with rationales, or for Anki-ready flashcards, and run it on any notebook from the Prompts button.
Flashcards and question sets are spread across twenty notebooks.

All Artifacts lists them in one table, with the notebook each came from, and lets you file them into folders.
An AI answer can be wrong, and in medicine that matters.

Gemini Notebook answers from the sources you add and cites each point. With the lecture and the saved answer in one notebook, you can check one against the other.

Four routines for a system block

Built for the weekly loop of lectures, questions and review.

One notebook per system

Cardio, renal and pharm each get a home, so nothing competes for space in one giant notebook.

Create a notebook for each system or block in the Workspace, and file them in a collection for the semester.
Add the lecture PDFs in Gemini Notebook as usual, then send the matching lecture videos from YouTube.
Tag each notebook with the exam it feeds, like Step 1 or NCLEX.
Inside a notebook, filter the sources to only PDFs or only YouTube videos, and save that view for next time.

Keep the OpenEvidence answer with the lecture

Answers you looked up once become sources you can check and revise from.

Ask your question in OpenEvidence, ChatGPT or Claude as you normally would.
Click the Kortex button on the chat and pick the system’s notebook. The answer arrives as a source, with your question and the reply labelled.
Ask Gemini Notebook where the saved answer and your lecture agree or differ. Every point in its reply cites the source it came from.

Turn a lecture into practice questions

Board-style questions with rationales, and flashcards, written from your own material.

Save the nursing exam questions prompt or the flashcards prompt in your Prompts library.
Tick one lecture’s sources in the notebook, insert the prompt from the Prompts button, and run it.
For Anki, the flashcards prompt can write semicolon-separated lines that you paste into a .txt file and import.
Generate Gemini Notebook’s own flashcards and quizzes too, then find every set in All Artifacts.

The All Artifacts view in the Kortex Workspace, listing a study guide, notes, flashcards and a quiz, each with the notebook it came from, such as Neuroscience and Cryptography. — The real All Artifacts view in the Kortex Workspace.

Listen to a review between shifts

Each system as audio, waiting in your podcast app.

Generate an Audio Overview of a system notebook from its row in the Workspace, with your instructions on what to cover.
Add it to a private podcast and listen in your usual podcast app.
Set a rule: tag a notebook #review and its Audio Overview starts generating, then joins the podcast.

What reviewers say about these features

Quoted word for word and linked to where they were posted. Reviewers don’t say what they do for a living, so we picked reviews about the features on this page.

“Excellent extension for NotebookLM. Import various ai conversations over to ai seamlessly. Adds a convenient button to Gemini”

FireCracker, on Chrome Web Store

“The source downloader feature is stupidly good. Exporting entire notebooks into Markdown in one zip? That alone makes this extension worth it. I wish I had this months ago.”

Saloni, on Chrome Web Store

Prompts, tools and reading

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What medical and nursing students ask

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Can I trust Gemini Notebook’s answers for medical exams?

Use them to study, never to make clinical decisions. Gemini Notebook answers from the sources you add and cites each point, which makes checking quick, but it can still misread a source. Check anything you will be tested on against the lecture or reference it cites. More in does Gemini Notebook hallucinate?

Can I put patient cases in a notebook?

Keep patient-identifiable information out of your notebooks unless your school or hospital has approved the tool. Kortex doesn’t store the contents of your sources, but whatever you add is stored in your Gemini Notebook account by Google. See how private Gemini Notebook is.

Does Kortex work with OpenEvidence?

Yes. OpenEvidence is one of the AI sites where Kortex adds its Send to Notebook button, alongside ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Perplexity and others.

Can Kortex make Anki decks?

Not directly. The flashcards prompt asks Gemini Notebook for semicolon-separated lines, which Anki imports from a .txt file. Kortex stores the prompt and drops it into the chat; Gemini Notebook writes the cards from your sources.

Set up the block you’re in now.

Add Kortex to Chrome, then send this week’s lectures and saved answers to one notebook.