Hardcore Anki user
Merging into AnKing
Mateo uses Distill to generate weekly custom subdecks. Export to .apkg, drag into Anki desktop, they land inside his master AnKing deck with tags preserved.
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Your notes shouldnโt be trapped in a SaaS. Every summary, flashcard, transcript, concept map, and quiz exports cleanly to the tool you already use โ no lock-in, ever.
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Most note apps are roach motels: your notes go in, and they never come out cleanly. Distill takes the opposite stance โ every piece of content you generate (transcript, summary, flashcards, concept map, quiz) can be exported to a dozen formats, preserving formatting, equations, images, and structure.
Whether you live in Anki, run a second brain in Obsidian, organize a team Notion, or just want a printable PDF to mark up on paper, Distillโs exporters treat your output as a first-class artifact. We render LaTeX, preserve images, keep chapter structure, maintain Anki tags and card types, and produce standards-compliant files that import with zero cleanup.
Searching for export lecture notes to Anki, PDF lecture notes, or an Obsidian-compatible summary tool? Youโre in the right place. Export is a feature we build for โ not against.
Not another note app. A real shortcut from lecture to long-term memory.
Before: Most AI study apps charge you $15/month forever because you canโt easily leave.
With Distill: Distill exports everything cleanly. If you ever stop paying, you keep every note and flashcard in open formats.
Before: Half your life is in Anki, the other half in Notion. Another note app isnโt the answer.
With Distill: Distill pushes summaries to Notion, flashcards to Anki, transcripts to Google Docs, concept maps to Miro โ one click each.
Before: Generic exports lose formatting, drop images, and break equations.
With Distill: Distill preserves LaTeX, images, tables, chapter structure, Anki card types, and cloze deletions โ nothing gets mangled.
From first tap to ready-to-study โ a few minutes, max.
Transcript, summary, flashcards, concept map, or quiz โ any output Distill has generated.
Pick a format. Most formats have one-click presets; advanced users can tweak margins, page size, typography, and more.
Download the file, or send it directly to Notion, Google Drive, Dropbox, or your LMS via OAuth.
Your notes show up in Anki, Obsidian, Notion, or a PDF viewer โ exactly as they looked in Distill.
Twenty-plus exporters, all first-party, all tested. If we donโt support your tool, tell us โ weโll add it.
A lot of apps claim โexport.โ We tested what actually works without manual cleanup.
| Feature | Koydo Distill | Otter.ai | Notta | AudioPen |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Anki (.apkg) with media | โ | โ | โ | โ |
| Notion direct push (OAuth) | โ | โ | โ | โ |
| Obsidian-compatible markdown | โ | โ | โ | โ |
| PDF with preserved LaTeX | โ | โ | โ | โ |
| Quizlet export | โ | โ | โ | โ |
| Concept map as SVG/XMind | โ | โ | โ | โ |
| Bulk export (whole course) | โ | โ | โ | โ |
| API for custom export | Pro plan | โ | โ | โ |
| Number of export formats | 20+ | 5 | 6 | 3 |
Comparison based on publicly listed features as of 2026. Data sourced from vendor pricing pages.
Here's how different learners put this feature to work.
Hardcore Anki user
Mateo uses Distill to generate weekly custom subdecks. Export to .apkg, drag into Anki desktop, they land inside his master AnKing deck with tags preserved.
Obsidian second-brain
Nora dumps every lecture as a markdown file into her Obsidian vault. Distillโs exporter creates [[wikilinks]] between concepts, so her lecture notes auto-graph with the rest of her notebook.
Notion team project
Omarโs MBA study group runs a Notion workspace. Every lecture summary gets pushed to a shared Notion database with tags, chapter headings, and embedded concept maps.
โThe Obsidian export is the best Iโve seen from any AI app. Wikilinks, front matter, even the images preserved. Actual PKM-ready output.โ
โAnkiWeb sync means I never manually drag files around. I finish a lecture, Distill generates cards, and theyโre on my phone by the time I walk to the bus stop.โ
โI moved from Readwise to Distill partly because exports are better. Markdown + PDF + Notion, all preserving the formatting I care about.โ
Yes. Every exporter preserves Markdown-level structure โ headings, lists, tables, quotes, code blocks โ and LaTeX math is rendered inline for PDF / DOCX or left in raw $...$ form for Markdown. Images embed with captions.
Yes. Select multiple lectures (or a whole โcourseโ) and Distill produces a single combined PDF, a zipped Markdown folder, or a master Anki deck. Pro plans can schedule weekly auto-exports to Google Drive or Dropbox.
Distill asks for OAuth permission to your Notion workspace (scoped to pages you select), then pushes the summary as a new page with nested blocks. Re-exports update in place instead of creating duplicates.
Yes. The .apkg file is the standard Anki package format โ AnkiMobile (iOS), AnkiDroid (Android), and Anki desktop all import it. Media (images, audio) is bundled.
Yes. Concept maps export as PNG, SVG, PDF, XMind, Mermaid, or raw JSON. The interactive web viewer also gives you a shareable read-only link.
Yes. Pro plans include a REST API for programmatic export โ useful for integrating with your own tools, LMS, or study group app. Free-plan users can export manually as often as they want.
Distill is more than export to anywhereโ it's a whole studio for your lectures.
Most of our Anki export traffic โ for good reason. Let Distill write the cards.
Read more โSummaries are the most-exported artifact โ PDF for revision, Notion for teams.
Read more โExport concept maps to XMind or embed an interactive version in your notes.
Read more โJoin thousands of students who stopped re-reading slides and started actually learning.