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Getting Started
Uploading Content
Upload PDFs, documents, images, and audio to Scholarly, paste URLs from the web, pull files from Google Drive, and turn your own materials into AI chat, flashcards, podcasts, and more.
Your Home and Library
Tour the Scholarly home page, the All Content tabs, your folder grid, pinned items, and how to find anything fast.
AI Chat and Voice Mode
Use Scholarly AI Chat for explanations, study materials, and answers — use voice mode for hands-free conversations and tools for richer responses.
Getting Started with Scholarly
New to Scholarly? Set up your account, upload your first PDF, generate flashcards and notes, and start studying with AI Chat in under 10 minutes.
Settings
Customize your Scholarly account — edit your profile, switch dark or light mode, pick AI voice options, manage notifications, and tune study preferences.
Plans and Limits
See what's included in Scholarly's Free and Ultimate plans, including lifetime free AI creation and upload credits, daily limits, file sizes, exports, and paid-plan unlocks.
Paste Text: Turn Notes into Study Material
Paste lecture transcripts, articles, or class notes straight into Scholarly and turn them into flashcards, quizzes, video lectures, podcasts, and more.
Features
Explore and Discover
Browse public flashcards, notes, research reports, and study sets shared by other Scholarly students — find ready-made materials for your subject.
Flashcards, Quizzes, and Exams
Create AI flashcards from any source, study with spaced repetition, and test yourself with quizzes and exams.
Notes and Pages
Write lecture notes and study guides in Scholarly's rich text editor with AI autocomplete, tables, equations, embedded media, and a built-in chat sidebar.
AI Podcasts
Turn PDFs, notes, images, or any topic into AI-generated multi-speaker podcast episodes on Scholarly with transcripts, chapter markers, and source citations.
AI Meeting Notes
Record lectures and meetings live in your browser or upload existing audio, get automatic transcription, AI summaries, action items, flashcards, and chat grounded in the transcript.
Slash Commands & Custom Skills
Use built-in slash commands and create your own custom AI skills for faster study workflows.
Voice Mode
Have spoken conversations with AI Chat, control playback speed, and study hands-free.
Quizzes and Exams
Test yourself with adaptive quizzes and timed exams generated from your study materials, then review every answer you gave at the end of the session.
Refine Flashcards with AI
Refine an entire flashcard deck in one prompt — ask Scholarly's AI to make cards harder, simpler, more detailed, or focused on specific topics in seconds.
Hard Questions
Flag difficult flashcards, get AI-generated hints, and track your progress until you master them.
AI Image Generation
Generate and edit images with AI directly in chat — diagrams, illustrations, cover art, and more.
Chat Canvas
Sketch diagrams, equations, and concept maps inside Scholarly's Chat Canvas, then send your drawing to the AI for analysis, explanation, or follow-up questions.
PDF Chat and Analysis
Upload any PDF to Scholarly to chat with it, generate flashcards, summaries, podcasts, slides, and more — supports textbooks, papers, and lecture handouts.
Deep Research
Run AI-powered web research that searches sources, evaluates evidence, and produces structured reports with citations, charts, images, and downloadable files.
AI Mind Maps
Turn your PDFs, library sources, Google Drive files, links, or a typed prompt into a downloadable mind map that shows how the key ideas connect.
AI Study Guides
Turn your PDFs, library files, Google Drive docs, links, or a typed prompt into a structured, exam-ready study guide PDF you can download, share, and study from.
AI Infographics
Turn a PDF, your library, Google Drive files, a link, or a typed topic into a poster-style one-page visual summary you can download, study from, and share.
AI Worksheets
Turn your PDFs, library files, Google Drive docs, links, or a typed prompt into a downloadable worksheet PDF with practice problems, mixed-review sets, quizzes with answer keys, or blank handouts.
Library Files
Save text, notes, code, CSVs, JSON, diagrams, and any other file the AI creates as real, editable files in your library — preview them, edit them inline, chat with them, and reuse them as sources for flashcards, quizzes, podcasts, and more.
AI Study Pack
One upload, a full study folder — Scholarly builds a study guide, a practice worksheet with answer key, and a flashcard deck together and saves them all in one folder.
AI Story Books
Turn a prompt or your own PDFs and notes into an illustrated children's story book — Scholarly writes the story and illustrates every page in a consistent art style.
Custom Designs
Save your own look as a Custom Design and apply it to AI Slides, Story Books, Infographics, Mind Maps, and AI Video Lectures so everything you generate matches your style.
AI Spreadsheets
Turn your PDFs, notes, slides, or a typed prompt into a real, editable Excel workbook — source-grounded sheets with proper headers, clean rows, and working formulas.
AI Essay Writer
Draft an essay with AI that has read your material — get a structured, cited first pass in Scholarly's editor, then keep editing it like any other page.
AI Agents
Learn how Scholarly's AI agents work — autonomous helpers that read your sources, use multiple models, research the web, and run code in their own sandbox to build finished, cited study materials.
AI Timelines
Turn your PDFs, library files, Google Drive docs, links, or a typed prompt into a clean, source-grounded timeline that lays out events in the order they happened — ready to download, share, and study from.
AI SOPs
Turn your PDFs, notes, library files, Google Drive docs, links, or a typed prompt into a clear, numbered standard operating procedure PDF — ready to download, share, and follow step by step.
AI Flowcharts
Turn your PDFs, notes, library files, Google Drive docs, links, or a typed prompt into a decision flowchart that maps steps, branches, and outcomes — ready to download, share, and study from.
AI Lesson Plans
Turn your PDFs, standards, library files, Google Drive docs, links, or a typed prompt into a structured lesson plan PDF with objectives, activities, and timing — ready to download, share, and teach from.
AI Outlines
Turn your PDFs, notes, library files, Google Drive docs, links, or a typed prompt into a clean, hierarchical outline PDF that structures your sources into topics and sub-points — ready to download, share, and study from.
Retrying with a Different Model
Retry an AI response with another model and switch between versions in the same conversation.
Choosing an AI Model
Compare and pick the right AI model for chat, AI Slides, and video lectures on Scholarly — learn each model's strengths, which models need a paid plan, and when to swap for better results.
Captions for Podcasts and Videos
Read along with synced captions on every AI Podcast and AI Video Lecture in Scholarly. Turn captions on or off, change languages, and follow speaker labels line by line.
Exporting Flashcards
Export Scholarly flashcard decks as an Anki .apkg deck, a printable PDF, or a print-ready worksheet so you can review your cards offline or in another app.
AI Slides
Generate slide decks from your PDFs, lectures, or any topic using Scholarly's AI Slides — covers generating decks, downloading them as PDF, and editing tips.
Interactive Video Questions
Active recall checkpoints inside Scholarly video lectures quiz you on what you just watched — without pausing playback — with best and last scores, full attempt history, and instant AI feedback.
AI Video Lectures
Turn PDFs, notes, or any topic into fully narrated, animated video lectures with scenes, illustrations, charts, equations, chapters, captions, transcripts, downloadable video files, and AI chat support.
Video Modes
Pick how your AI Video Lecture teaches — Standard, Math, Kids, Editorial, Retro, or Freestyle. Each mode re-teaches the same material in its own style, tone, and visual language.
AI Image Playground
Turn a prompt into study visuals in the AI Image Playground — pick a style, an aspect ratio, and generate with one or more image models at once, with optional reference images to remix.
Requesting Access to Shared Content
Ask the owner for access when someone shares a private Scholarly link with you — flashcards, PDFs, video lectures, podcasts, recordings, research, and chats are all supported.
Studying from YouTube Videos
Paste a YouTube link into Scholarly to turn the video into flashcards, quizzes, video lectures, podcasts, and study guides — or watch it with chapters, a transcript, and AI chat.
General
Keyboard Shortcuts
Master Scholarly's keyboard shortcuts for navigation, chat, flashcard study, and editing — work faster across the app without reaching for the mouse.
Supported File Formats
Reference of every file type Scholarly accepts — PDFs, docs, images, audio, links, and Google Drive files — and which AI features work with each format.
Folders and Organization
Organize your study materials into folders, use drag and drop, and let AI sort your content automatically.
Using Scholarly Content Commercially
What you can and cannot do with content you create on Scholarly, including commercial projects.
Feedback and Bug Reporting
Rate AI-generated podcasts, lectures, and flashcards, flag inaccurate output, and report bugs in Scholarly so the team can improve quality and fix issues fast.
Connected Apps
Connect Google Drive to Scholarly so you can pick Drive files as sources in any create window, in AI Chat, and in Deep Research — without downloading and re-uploading.
AI Organizer
Let AI sort your unfoldered Scholarly content into folders — one click suggestions, accept or dismiss each one, and a folder name picked for new uploads as you add them.
Background Tasks and Notifications
Close the create window and keep working — Scholarly generates your flashcards, podcasts, video lectures, slides, and research reports in the background and tells you when they're ready.
Command Palette
Use the Cmd+K command palette in Scholarly to search every PDF, deck, page, recording, podcast, research report, and chat — and jump straight to it without leaving the keyboard.
Sharing and Collaboration
Share Scholarly pages, flashcards, PDFs, video lectures, podcasts, meeting notes, research, and chats — copy a link, generate a QR code, send via your phone's share sheet, invite by email, and track views.
Scholarly on Mobile
Use Scholarly comfortably on phones — snap a photo of your notes, create from full-screen dialogs, record meeting notes with floating controls, and share with the native share sheet.
Billing and Subscriptions
Manage your Scholarly subscription -- Free or Ultimate, pause for a month, update payment methods, view invoices, and cancel anytime.
Account, Login, and Password Recovery
Sign in with Google, email and password, or an emailed sign-in link — plus how to reset your password, update account details, sign out, and delete your account.
Deleting and Restoring Content
Delete items and folders in Scholarly, find them again on the Deleted tab, and restore anything you removed by mistake.