Card Sort Generator

I was preparing for a card sort yesterday, clicking around in OmniGraffle, trying to come up with a good grid for the cards, entering labels, when it occurred to me that there had to be an easier way. A cursory Internet search didn’t reveal anything, so I made the obvious choice, and spent half a day implementing a tool that renders a card sheet PDF from a list of terms:

cardsort.ignorethecode.net

It’s pretty simple. Enter your list of terms, select US Letter or A4, select how many cards there should be on a page, and download the rendered PDF.

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