Guide Home & Library

Your Home and Library

Your home page is where every study session 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.
  • Scheduled tasks -- Anything you've set to run later lists here with its time, plus Run now if you don't want to wait. See Scheduled Tasks.
  • Projects -- Your projects, with their recent activity. See Projects.
  • Content -- Your folders first, then everything you've created or opened recently -- pages, decks, PDFs, meeting notes, podcasts, research, and chats -- with pinned items sorted to the top and anything shared with you just below. Pin from an item's row or its three-dot menu. 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, Research, and Essay ask you to describe what you want. Type it -- or tap one of the starters underneath -- and press Generate.
  • 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 on home as they progress. Click any task -- even one still processing -- to jump straight into it.

The New Menu — Blank vs Create with AI

Open the + New menu in the sidebar (or use the New button on home) and you'll see two tabs. It opens on Create with AI, with flashcards, video lectures, and podcasts first:

  • Create with AI -- Every AI tool: flashcards, video lectures, podcasts, quizzes, AI slides, study guides, worksheets, infographics, mind maps, story books, spreadsheets, timelines, SOPs, flowcharts, lesson plans, outlines, AI Essay Writer, AI Study Pack, and Deep Research.
  • Blank -- Start from an empty file you fill in yourself. A blank flashcard deck, a blank spreadsheet / table, or a blank PDF appears in your library right away with no AI generation and no daily limit.

The split keeps the menu scannable: AI tools on one tab, manual starting points on the other, no scrolling past a long mixed list to find what you want.

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 my biology PDF" or "Open my latest research report on Krebs cycle." Chat searches your library by name, type, and date and pulls up the match. See AI Chat and Voice Mode 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.

Next to the tabs, a content type filter narrows the rows further (PDFs only, podcasts only, etc.) 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.

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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