Pages

A Page is Scholarly's writing surface. Use one for meeting notes, a project brief, internal documentation, lecture notes, an essay, or any freeform writing. You can start from a blank page and write it yourself, or have the AI draft the first version from your own files and then edit it like any other page.

Pages are also sources: once something is written on a page, every other Scholarly tool can read it.

Starting a Page

Pick Page in the tool row on Home. From there you have two ways in:

• Start blank — opens a new, empty page immediately. No prompt, no setup step. The title starts empty, ready for your own name.
• Describe what you want — type what the page should say, optionally attach or link sources, and the AI writes the first draft into a new page.

You can also create a page from the New menu, from inside a folder, or from inside a project, and it is filed there.

An empty page offers a few starting points rather than a blank stare: Essay template, Study notes, Help me write, and Generate with AI.

Drafting a Page with AI

When you ask the AI to write the page, the create panel lets you ground the draft in your own material:

• Prompt AI — describe the page you want. No source file needed.
• Upload Files — PDFs, Word documents, PowerPoint, or text files.
• Library — pick files you have already uploaded.
• Google Drive — pull a Doc, PDF, Slides deck, or Word file directly. See Connections.

For PDFs, pick a page range so the draft is grounded only in the chapter you care about.

Then shape the draft:

• Writing style — Argumentative, Analytical, Expository, Narrative, or Literature review. Each shapes the structure, not just the tone.
• Length — Short (about 500 words), Standard (about 1,000 words), or Long (about 2,000 words).
• Explanation level and detail — how much background to assume and how thorough to be.
• Custom instructions — free text for anything the presets do not cover: a thesis, an audience, a required structure.
• Language — write the page in any supported language.
• AI model — paid plans choose which model writes. Models have noticeably different voices; see Choosing an AI Model.

What lands is a real, editable document: a clear structure, with headings, lists and emphasis already styled. The draft is grounded in the sources you selected, and the model is instructed not to invent statistics, quotes, or references that are not in them — it is still a first pass, so read it against your material. It is yours from that point on — Scholarly does not touch the draft again unless you ask.

An AI-drafted page runs as a background task and costs one AI Creation Credit. Starting blank is free and instant.

The Toolbar

The formatting bar sits above the page and stays visible while you write, so you never hunt for it. It carries:

• Transform — turn the current block into a heading, list, checklist, quote, code block, or callout.
• Bold, italic, underline, strikethrough, and inline code.
• Highlights in yellow, green, blue, or red, and text colour.
• Indent and outdent controls.
• Undo and Redo, which apply immediately as you type.
• Spelling & Grammar — see below.
• Export.

On a phone the same bar becomes a compact toolbar sized for one thumb.

Blocks

Add blocks from the toolbar or by typing / on an empty line.

• Text — rich text with full formatting, lists, checklists, and links.
• Code blocks — syntax-highlighted, with language selection.
• Equations — LaTeX rendered inline or as a block.
• Tables — rows, columns, header toggles, resizable columns, per-cell background colours, and Tab to move between cells.
• Images — uploaded or embedded, with optional captions.
• Videos — embedded playback inside the page.
• Dividers — visual separators.

Drag any block by its handle to reorder it. Deleting a block and pressing undo puts it back where it was, not at the end.

Blank lines keep the spacing you gave them, so a deliberate gap between sections survives a reload.

Autocomplete

Pause while typing and the AI suggests a continuation in grey ahead of your cursor. Accept it with Tab or the Accept button, ask for a different one with Try again, or clear it with Dismiss or Esc.

Suggestions are short and continue the sentence you are on; they never rewrite what you have already written. They are aware of the blocks above and below, the page title, and your own custom instructions.

Autocomplete follows your settings: turn it off entirely, or set the tone, style, and constraints it should write in, under Settings → Features. See Settings and Personalization.

Spelling and Grammar

Spelling and grammar checks run when you ask for them, not constantly in the background. Press Spelling & Grammar in the toolbar and the page is checked; issues are underlined, and the toolbar shows how many were found.

Hover an underlined word to see the problem and its suggested fix. From the same toolbar control you can step through every open issue and Accept All or Dismiss All in one action. A suggestion whose fix is simply to delete something — a repeated word, a stray article — has its own Remove button.

Asking Chat to Edit the Page

Every page has an AI chat sidebar. It knows the page's contents, so you can ask questions about what you have written, request a summary, or ask for changes in plain language: "tighten the second section", "make this table three columns", "rewrite the intro for a non-technical reader".

When chat proposes changes, they are drawn directly on the page with a single Keep or Discard for the whole set. You see the edit in place, in context, rather than reviewing a list of separate diffs.

To point chat at one specific passage, select the text and choose Send to Chat. The selection is attached to your next message.

Chat is the one place to ask for rewrites. The floating AI Edit popup that used to appear over a selection has been retired.

The editor opens before the sidebar does, so you can start typing right away, and chat always reads the latest version of the page when you send a message. Long pages stay responsive while you type.

Page Icons and Titles

The page icon sits beside the title. Click it to pick a new one — it makes pages easier to spot in the sidebar, on Home, and in folders.

Leave the title blank and you can ask the AI to name the page from its contents, or type your own at any time.

Sub-Pages

Pages nest. Create a sub-page inside an existing page to build a hierarchy; sub-pages appear indented under their parent in the sidebar.

Pages as Sources

A page is a source for every AI tool in Scholarly. Open the create panel for Flashcards, a quiz, Deep Research, a video lecture, or anything else, then pick the page from your Library in the source picker. The tool reads it exactly as it would an uploaded PDF.

Sharing and Exporting

Open the Export menu to save the page as:

• PDF — formatted, including tables, equations, and images. Choose page size, orientation, margins, font, line height, columns, and page numbers, with a live preview. Free on every plan.
• Markdown — plain text for use in other tools.
• HTML — a standalone web page.
• Word (.docx) — editable in Word, Pages, or Google Docs. Paid plans.
• PowerPoint (.pptx) — an editable deck built from the page. Paid plans.
• Google Docs and Google Slides — with Google Drive connected, saved straight to Drive. Without a connection the menu offers Connect Google Drive first. Paid plans.

Exporting creates a separate copy: editing the Word or Drive version does not change the Scholarly original, and your original's sharing settings are untouched. See Exporting Your Work.

You can also Share a page by link, Print it, or Move it to a folder. A page shared read-only keeps its tables, code blocks, and captions locked for the person reading it.

Where You Left Off

A page reopens at the point you stopped reading, on any device you sign in from, with a note saying where it picked up and a Start over. See Continue Where You Left Off.

Dark Mode

The editor fully supports dark mode. Every block, the formatting bar, and the export preview follow your theme.

When to Use an AI Draft

• Beat the blank page. A first pass on something you have been staring at for an hour.
• Outline to draft. Paste an outline as your custom instructions and turn it into prose.
• Source-grounded summaries. Upload a paper and ask for a 1,000-word summary in essay form.
• Argument scaffolding. Get a structured comparison you can refine into your own voice.

A draft is a starting point, not a finished piece to publish or submit untouched. Edit it, check the facts, and write it in your voice. If your organisation or school requires AI-assistance disclosures, follow them.

Tips

• Be specific about the point. "Why GDP underweights informal labour in developing economies" produces a sharper draft than "a page about GDP."
• Add your own citations. Drafts do not carry inline citations, so reference the sources you relied on by hand before the page goes out.
• Run Deep Research first for anything that needs real sources, then draft the page with the report as your source.

Related

• Exporting Your Work — which formats each kind of content supports, and what needs a paid plan.
• Deep Research — gather cited sources before you draft.
• Choosing an AI Model — how model choice changes the writing.
• Connections — connecting Google Drive so Docs and Slides exports appear.
• Library Files — how pages sit alongside your other saved material.
• Settings and Personalization — autocomplete controls and custom instructions.