Creating on-the-go FlashCards for your iPhone

Question

Hello,
I just wanted to share this with the community. I have been taking Japanese classes this semester, and the load of vocabulary that I have to learn every week is pretty impressive, and hard to handle. I found a great way to get all my vocabulary on "virtual" FlashCards that I put on my iPhone.
It's quite simple, really:
Just open Keynote, and create your FlashCards. Use one panel for one word. What I do is that I write the word in Japanese pretty big, and the translation under it (with a large space) under it. I find that if you use a white back ground and a black font, it works best, but you can do the reverse, and it works as well (i.e. Black background, and white font).
Once you are done creating your FlashCards, you can import them to iPhoto, and just sync your iPhone with the appropriate folder. Because I have so many words to learn, I separate them by Chapters.
When you are on the go (i.e. in the Metro, on the plane, waiting for the bus, on the bus...) you can review your FlashCards. I use my thumb to hide either the Japanese word, or the English word, and review this way. It has worked really really well for me, and all the students in my class have been doing the same with their iPods, importing the FlashCards as pictures from Keynote to iPhoto.
Anyway, if some people knew this trick, good for you, but I just wanted to share this with other language students.
Thank you.

Answer 1

I wanted to study flash cards on my iPod and couldn’t find an easy way to make lots of these picture files. I have a PC, so don’t know about Keynote and iPhoto. Anyway, I ended up writing my own program that converts a list of flashcard text to individual jpg files. I also created a web front end that allows anyone to make them. If anyone out there is interested, go to my web site at http://ais.ms/flashcard/.
Eric