Guide Explore

Explore and Discover

The Explore page lets you browse public study materials shared by other Scholarly users. Find flashcard sets, pages, research reports, and more across a wide range of subjects.

Opening Explore

Explore lives at scholarly.so/explore — open it directly, or follow the Explore link in the navigation on the Scholarly homepage. It doesn't currently appear in the in-app sidebar, so it's worth bookmarking if you use it often.

Browsing Content

The page shows publicly shared content organized by popularity and recency.

  • Search -- Type a topic or keyword to find relevant materials.
  • Trending searches -- See what other users are searching for right now.
  • Content cards -- Each result shows a preview with the title, content type, and creator.
  • Category pages -- Each content type has its own page, and each one is designed for what it holds: short videos play vertically, podcasts show episode artwork and a waveform, a flashcard card shows a real question from the set, and a research report shows its abstract and its sources.

The Public Library

The showcase on the Explore home page highlights a couple of dozen items. The public library at scholarly.so/explore/library lists everything that has been shared publicly — every page, flashcard deck, video lecture, podcast, PDF, research report, and chat — by title, across numbered pages.

Use it when you know roughly what you are looking for and want to browse the whole set rather than whatever is trending. Every entry opens directly, the same as a card on the showcase.

Using Shared Content

When you find something useful:

  • View -- Click any card to read or study the full content.
  • Duplicate -- Copy any shared item to your own account. This creates an independent copy in your library that you own and can edit freely — study a duplicated flashcard deck, edit a duplicated page, or build on a duplicated research report. The original remains unchanged, and your progress and edits never affect it.
  • Share -- Forward content to a colleague or study partner with a direct link.

Content Types on Explore

You can discover — and filter by — these content types:

  • AI Podcasts
  • AI Video Lectures
  • Flashcard sets
  • Research reports
  • PDFs
  • Pages and notes

Sharing Your Own Content

Content only appears on Explore when its creator has made it public. To share something you made, open it, use the Share option, and set it to public — see Sharing Content for the full walkthrough of link sharing and visibility settings. You can switch it back to private at any time.

Privacy

Only content that creators have explicitly made public appears on Explore. Your private content never shows up here unless you choose to share it.

Some kinds of work are never discoverable, whatever their sharing setting — meeting notes and folders stay out of Explore entirely, so a recorded call or a project folder can't surface here even by accident.

FAQ

Is Explore available on the free plan? Yes. Browsing Explore works on every plan, including free.

Can I study a duplicated flashcard deck like my own? Yes. Once duplicated, a deck behaves exactly like one you created — study modes, hard questions, and editing all work normally.

Why can't I find something a colleague shared with me? If they shared it with a private link, it won't appear in Explore search — only public content is listed. Ask them for the direct link instead. Meeting notes and folders never appear in Explore at all.

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