April 2025 marked a pivotal month for Scholarly with the introduction of several game-changing features. From the highly anticipated Dark Mode to the powerful Code Interpreter, these updates demonstrate our commitment to innovation while enhancing the core educational experience for our users.

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Major Features

Dark Mode (Beta) Launch

The most requested feature finally arrived:

• Automatic adaptation to system theme preferences
• Carefully designed color scheme for optimal readability
• Enhanced background colors for better eye comfort
• Improved text contrast and UI element styling
• Consistent dark theme across all components and pages
• Manual toggle coming soon in user preferences

Code Interpreter Integration

Revolutionary computational capabilities added to Scholarly Assistant:

• Execute Python code directly in conversations
• Generate and display graphs, charts, and visualizations
• Create mathematical plots and data analysis
• Support for complex calculations and data processing
• Integration with Research for data-driven reports
• Real-time code execution with immediate results

YouTube Video Analysis

Expanded multimedia content support:

• Read and analyze YouTube video transcripts
• Answer questions about video content
• Summarize any YouTube video automatically
• Direct website content reading capabilities
• Enhanced multimedia research capabilities
• Seamless integration with existing chat features

Advanced Research Improvements

Major enhancements to research capabilities:

• Scoped search results by category (research papers, news, GitHub, etc.)
• Image support in research reports
• Access to internal knowledge base
• Improved web data processing system
• Enhanced reliability and report quality
• Background research processing

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Improvements

Conversation System Overhaul

• Model selector for different AI capabilities
• Support for reasoning models with deep thinking
• Improved message loading performance (20x faster)
• Continuous message sending capabilities
• Enhanced content linking and file management
• Better folder integration with conversations

Assistant Capabilities Enhancement

• Custom instruction support for personalized responses
• Image generation from text descriptions
• Multiple simultaneous action performance
• Enhanced web search with image carousels
• Memory creation and management
• Improved tool accessibility and organization

PDF and Content Management

• Automatic name generation for PDF documents
• Enhanced PDF analysis up to 350 pages
• Improved text completion with sentence-level support
• Better image and file drag-and-drop functionality
• Enhanced content search system performance
• Streamlined PDF to flashcards workflow

User Experience Improvements

• Unified user settings modal
• Explore page complete redesign with search
• Trending searches section
• Related searches functionality
• Improved mobile support across all pages
• Enhanced onboarding process with personalization

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Quality of Life and Bug Fixes

Performance Enhancements

• Message loading improved by 3x speed
• Study mode question generation optimization
• Faster content search and retrieval
• Enhanced overall system responsiveness
• Better resource management and utilization
• Improved caching mechanisms

Interface Refinements

• Cleaner assistant conversation layout
• Improved content selection design
• Enhanced flashcard study mode animations
• Better progress indicators and feedback
• Streamlined settings organization
• Modernized button designs

Bug Fixes and Stability

• Resolved PDF rendering and zooming issues
• Fixed conversation history and message handling
• Improved flashcard generation reliability
• Enhanced research session persistence
• Better error handling and user feedback
• Fixed various edge cases in content management

Premium Features

• Enhanced PDF to flashcards limits (100+ pages for Plus, unlimited for Ultimate)
• 7-day free trial for all plans
• Expanded payment method support
• Premium-only image generation capabilities
• Advanced PDF analysis features
• Priority support for paid users

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Looking Forward

April's updates have fundamentally transformed Scholarly into a more powerful and versatile educational platform. The introduction of Dark Mode addresses one of our most requested features, while the Code Interpreter opens up entirely new possibilities for computational learning and analysis.

The enhanced research capabilities and YouTube integration position Scholarly as a comprehensive learning companion that can handle diverse content types and research needs. As we continue to refine these features and introduce new capabilities, we're excited about the educational possibilities ahead.

Thank you for your continued support and feedback. These updates represent months of development work, and we're thrilled to share them with you. If you have any questions or suggestions about these features, please reach out to us at [email protected].

The journey towards making Scholarly the ultimate educational platform continues, and April's updates are a significant step forward!