Guide Home & Library

Your Home and Library

Home is where a piece of work starts. It pulls together everything you've created, every tool you can use, and the quickest path back to what you were working on yesterday.

The Home Page at a Glance

Open scholarly.so while you're signed in and you land on Home; the Home link in the sidebar brings you back at any time. You'll see:

  • Four tiles -- Upload Content, AI Video Lectures, AI Flashcards, and AI Podcast, across the top.
  • The input -- Your toolbox and prompt box in one card. It's covered in detail below.
  • Continue where you left off -- A compact strip of cards for anything you started but haven't finished, each showing how far in you are and what's left. It's hidden when there's nothing to continue. See Continue Where You Left Off.
  • Projects -- Your projects, with their recent activity. See Projects.
  • Recent -- One list for everything else.

One Recent List, Grouped by Day

Everything below the input is a single Recent list ordered by day -- Today, Yesterday, Earlier. Uploads, AI creations, chats, and folders all sit in it together, so a finished artifact appears in one place instead of three.

Two groups join the top of that same list when they apply, and disappear when they don't:

  • In progress -- what is generating right now. Click any row to open its progress page.
  • Scheduled -- what runs later, with its start time and a Run now button. See Scheduled Tasks.

Pinned items sort to the top, and anything shared with you sits just below. Pin from an item's row or its three-dot menu. Every video, podcast, and PDF row carries a thin progress bar showing how far you got. All Content opens the full list, and folders have their own guide in Folders and Organization.

The Input

The toolbox runs along the top of the input. Pick a tool and the box below changes to match it:

  • Chat puts the full chat input on Home; type your question and send it, and the conversation carries on in Chat.
  • Image, Document, and Research ask you to describe what you want. Type it -- or tap one of the starters underneath -- and press Generate.
  • Page does both: Start blank opens an empty page immediately, or describe what the page should say and the AI drafts it. See Pages.
  • Study Guide and Slides work from a source, so they give you a dropzone -- drop a PDF, doc, or deck onto it.
  • Text-to-Speech turns a document into a single MP3 and opens its own setup as soon as you pick it.
  • Transcribe turns up to 60 minutes of audio, video, or a YouTube video into a plain-text or timestamped transcript.
  • Everything else sits under More tools: AI Study Pack, mind maps, worksheets, AI infographics, AI Story Book, Practice Exam, AI Meeting Notes, and Paste Text.

What you type or drop is carried into that tool's setup instead of being asked for twice, so More options opens the full panel with your words already in it. Chat is the real chat input, not a lookalike -- linked sources, pasting, attachments, the model picker, and voice all work before you leave Home.

The prompt box holds up to 5,000 characters, the same as the create panel it opens. Image prompts are shorter.

Getting Around

A few shortcuts make moving around faster:

  • Sidebar -- The rail leads with a New button and a Search button, then quick links to Home, Chat, Library, and (if you're on a team) Team. Below that sit Projects -- click the heading to open the full Projects page -- then Folders, then a single Recent list that mixes your latest content and chats together, most recently opened first; click the section header to collapse it. Open Library → Deleted to find removed items; Changelog, Share Feedback, and Join Discord live in the profile menu behind your name and picture. Collapse the whole sidebar with the toggle near the top when you want more room.
  • The input on home -- The fastest way to start something new. Pick the tool you want from the row along its top, type or drop what you have, and press Generate.
  • Moving between pages -- Home, the Library, and Projects keep what you had on screen, so coming back to the Library leaves your filters, your search, and the rows you'd already loaded exactly as they were instead of starting over. Reload the page when you want to pull in changes made elsewhere.
  • Background tasks -- When you ask the AI to create flashcards, video lectures, podcasts, or research, those tasks run in the background and show up in the In progress group at the top of Recent. Click any one -- even one still processing -- to open its live progress page.

The New Menu

Open + New in the sidebar (or the New button on Home) and everything you can make fits on one screen, with no scrolling. Upload and Import from apps sit at the top, because adding a source is usually where a piece of work starts. Below them the AI tools are grouped by what you walk away with:

  • Listen & watch -- podcast, video lecture, transcribe.
  • Present -- slides, infographic, mind map.
  • Write -- report, SOP, case study, meeting notes, page, and AI Document for anything else.
  • Research & data -- deep research, spreadsheet, timeline.

A strip underneath holds the study formats -- flashcards, study guide, worksheet, story book -- and the blank starts. A blank page, spreadsheet / table, flashcard deck, PDF, or folder lands in your library immediately, with no AI generation.

Finding Your Content

Three quick paths to anything you've made:

  • Pin it first. If you know you'll come back, pin from the item row or the content page. Pinned items always sit at the top of home, and you can jump straight to them from the Pinned tab on All Content.
  • Use the search bar. Type any keyword and Scholarly searches across PDFs, notes, flashcard decks, meeting notes, podcasts, research, and chats.
  • Ask the AI. Open AI Chat and say something like "Find the onboarding PDF" or "Open my latest research report on the vendor comparison." Chat searches your library by name, type, and date and pulls up the match. See AI Chat for more.

The All Content Page

For the full list of everything in your account, click Library in the sidebar. It opens All Content, where a single tabbed header at the top filters both your content rows and your folders at the same time:

  • All -- Everything you've created or uploaded, plus every folder.
  • Pinned -- Only items (and folders) you've pinned for quick access.
  • Shared -- Items and folders other people have shared with you.
  • Deleted -- Items and folders in the trash. Recently deleted things stay here for a window so you can restore them if you change your mind.

Underneath the tabs, one toolbar row carries everything that arranges the list: search, where you are, grouping, and sorting, with the content types on a single line beneath it.

  • Sort by name, by when something was added, by when you last worked on it, or by type. Name ordering reads the numbers inside a title, so Section 2 comes before Section 10 -- and a podcast made from a section lands next to it.
  • Group by type, by date, or into the sources you brought and the artifacts Scholarly made from them.
  • The content type filter narrows the rows further (PDFs only, podcasts only, and so on) and shows a small badge with the number of active filters.

Folders sit above the content list as a clean tile grid -- with a one-click AI Organizer shortcut and a quick New folder tile that's always available.

What's New for New Accounts

When you first sign up, a short welcome lets you pick a first creation — including flashcards, a video explainer, or a podcast — then the home page opens with the four tiles and the input ready to use. You won't see usage limits or paywalls until you actually need them -- the goal is to make the first creation as fast and frictionless as possible.

Home on a Phone

Home keeps the same order on a phone as on a computer -- create tiles, then the chat, then Projects and your content -- but each part is built for the small screen, and the page runs edge to edge instead of sitting inside a card.

  • Upload, AI video lectures, AI flashcards, and AI podcast are a compact 2×2 grid of icon-and-title tiles.
  • The chat card is the same one you get on a computer, and its tool row fits the screen: the tabs that fit are shown and the rest sit at the top of More tools.
  • Menus open as a bottom sheet -- full width, slid up from the bottom edge with the page dimmed behind. More tools, New, the model picker, and the project picker all work this way.
  • Your content shows the latest eight items with a single View all, Projects is a row of chips you can flick through, and the upgrade card is one tappable row.

Desktop Home keeps its layout. For the rest of the phone experience see Scholarly on Mobile.

Tips

  • Pin generously. It only takes a click and it makes the items you actually use easy to find later.
  • Run AI Organizer once a week. A short, light tidy keeps home from getting cluttered with one-off uploads.
  • Treat Home as a control panel. Everything in your account is reachable from home in two clicks or fewer -- if you're hunting around, you can probably get there faster from here.

Library Files

Anything the AI creates in a chat or in Deep Research — notes, outlines, CSVs, JSON, code, diagrams, calendars — can be saved as a real library file with one click. Saved files show up everywhere your other content does (Home, search, the sidebar, folders, Pinned), each with its own icon and color. Open one and you can preview it, edit it inline, chat with it, and reuse it as a source for any AI tool. See Library Files for the full guide.

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