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Paste Text: Turn Notes into Study Material

Not everything you study lives in a file. Paste Text lets you drop raw text — lecture transcripts, class notes, an article, a textbook passage — straight into Scholarly. The text is saved as a source in your library, and from there you can build any study material from it.

Where to Find It

There are two ways in:

  • Home page -- Click the Paste Text tile on your Home page. It opens the Add content dialog with the paste box ready.
  • Add content dialog -- Any time you're adding content, switch to the Paste text tab (next to Upload and Google Drive).

How It Works

  1. Paste your text into the box. You can paste up to 100,000 characters — a running counter shows how much room you have left.
  2. Click Add text. The text joins your queued sources on the Upload tab, automatically named after the first line of your text.
  3. Add more sources if you want — files, links, or more pasted text. You can mix pasted text with PDFs, YouTube links, and Drive files in the same batch.
  4. Click Next and choose what to make.

The pasted text becomes a regular source in your library, so it sticks around after the dialog closes. Like other text uploads, it's saved as an editable library file — open it later to read it, edit it, or reuse it for another creation.

What You Can Build From Pasted Text

Once your text is added, it works like any other source. From the same dialog you can create:

Or skip the creation step entirely — ask questions about the text in AI Chat, get a summary, or just save it to your library for later.

Good Uses for Paste Text

  • Lecture transcripts -- Paste the transcript from an online lecture and turn it into flashcards or a study guide.
  • Class notes -- Copy notes out of any notes app and make them quizzable.
  • Articles -- Paste the body of an article you need to know for class.
  • Textbook passages -- Copy a section you're stuck on and have a podcast or video lecture explain it.
  • Emailed material -- Study sheets or review notes a classmate or teacher sent you.

Plan Notes

  • Pasted text is saved like any other upload, so it counts toward your plan's upload allowance. See Plans and Limits.
  • Generating study material from pasted text uses an AI creation, the same as generating from a file.
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