Upload PDFs, notes, slides, or recordings and get a Markdown document with a clear heading hierarchy, short scannable sections, and tables or lists wherever they beat prose. Drop it straight into Notion, Obsidian, a GitHub wiki, a README, or your internal docs.
Free to start. One lifetime AI creation on the Free plan. No credit card required.
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## When to use this runbook
- Customer-facing outage or degraded service
- Security alert rated High or Critical
## Severity levels
| Level | Response time |
| Sev 1 | 15 minutes |
## First 30 minutes
Page the on-call lead, open the incident channel, and post the first status update.
Schematic example. Headings, bullets, and tables are real Markdown syntax, so the file renders the same in any Markdown editor.
The Markdown Doc tile inside Scholarly's AI File Creator writes a sectioned document from your material, not a wall of text.
Upload PDFs, Word docs, PowerPoints, spreadsheets, or text files, pick files from your library or Google Drive, or paste a URL. Use up to 3 sources and choose specific PDF page ranges.
Choose the Markdown Doc tile. In custom instructions, describe the audience and the sections you want — a README, a wiki page, a runbook, a lesson summary — and the generator builds the heading hierarchy to match.
The .md file is saved to your library and downloads instantly. Open it in Obsidian, import it into Notion, commit it to a GitHub wiki or README, or paste it into your internal docs.
Any material that needs to live in a plain-text, portable, version-controllable document.
Turn a process PDF, a policy binder, or a recorded walkthrough into a sectioned wiki page with numbered steps and a quick-reference table at the top.
Example: onboarding deck → Notion page with Overview, Week 1, Week 2, and Tools sections.
Convert a spec, design doc, or architecture slide deck into a README with Installation, Usage, Configuration, and FAQ headings that render cleanly on GitHub.
Example: API spec PDF → README with an endpoints table and example requests as lists.
Turn lecture slides, textbook chapters, or a recording into Obsidian-ready notes with one heading per topic, key terms as a list, and comparisons as tables.
Example: three lecture PDFs → one .md with a section per lecture and a glossary table.
Summarise a set of papers or reports into a single document with a section per source, a findings table, and open questions as a checklist.
Example: literature review → Markdown digest with a comparison table of methods and results.
Structure first, prose only where prose is the right tool.
One top-level title, then sections and subsections that follow the shape of your material, so the outline panel in any editor is useful.
Each section says one thing and stays short enough to scan, rather than burying the point in paragraphs.
Comparisons become tables, steps become numbered lists, options become bullets — real Markdown syntax, not describing a table in words.
The content comes from the files you upload. If a section has no support in the source, it is not padded out with invented detail.
Markdown opens in Notion, Obsidian, GitHub, VS Code, and any text editor, and diffs cleanly in version control.
For PDFs, select the page range the document should be built from, so a long manual only contributes the chapter you need.
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Upload up to 3 sources — PDFs, Word docs, slides, spreadsheets, text files, Google Drive files, or a URL — pick the Markdown Doc tile, and Scholarly generates a .md file with a clear heading hierarchy, short sections, and tables or lists where they fit, saved to your library and ready to download. The Free plan includes one lifetime AI creation and one upload (8MB or 32 PDF pages). Premium ($30/mo or $144/yr) allows 10 AI creations per week and Laureate ($99/mo) allows 80.
Pasting a chat answer into Notion or a wiki is where formatting goes to die: headings flatten, tables become pipes and dashes, and the next person has to rebuild the structure by hand. The Markdown Doc tile writes the structure into the file itself, so it renders the same in every editor that reads Markdown.
Because the generator reads your uploaded sources, the sections follow your material — the steps in your process document, the topics in your lecture, the findings in your papers. Where the source is thin, the section stays short instead of being padded with generic filler.
The result is a real .md file in your Scholarly library, stored next to the source it came from. Download it, commit it, import it, and when the source changes, generate again with the same instructions to refresh the document.
The Markdown tile is deliberately focused on structure. These are the boundaries to plan around.
Teams use the Markdown Doc tile to turn the documents nobody reads into the pages everybody uses: policy PDFs into internal wiki pages, recorded walkthroughs into SOP docs, design decks into READMEs, and vendor manuals into runbooks. Because the output is plain text, it lives in Notion, Confluence, or a Git repository without a conversion step.
Teams plans add shared libraries, so the source documents, the generated Markdown, and the SOPs built from them stay together where the whole team can reach them.
Yes. Upload the PDF, optionally pick the page range, choose the Markdown Doc tile, and describe the document you want. You get a .md file with a heading hierarchy, short sections, and tables or lists where they fit — not a raw text dump of the PDF.
Yes. Tell the generator the audience and the sections you want in custom instructions — for example "a README with Installation, Usage, and Configuration" — and it builds the heading structure to match from your sources.
The output is standard Markdown, so it opens directly in Obsidian, imports into Notion, renders on GitHub, and works in any Markdown editor.
Use Markdown when the document needs to live in a wiki, repository, or notes app as editable plain text. Use the PDF Document type when you need a polished, formatted file to print or share as-is.
Scholarly is free to start: the Free plan includes one lifetime AI creation and one upload of up to 8MB or 32 PDF pages. Premium ($30/mo or $144/yr) allows 10 AI creations per week, and Laureate ($99/mo) allows 80 per week.
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The creator this Markdown tile lives in — CSV, JSON, calendar, and Excel files too.
Prefer a polished, formatted PDF instead of plain text? Build one from the same sources.
Just the structure, before you write the document.
Step-by-step procedures for your team.
When the material is a table, not a document.
Machine-readable data for the same sources.
A sectioned, portable document built from your own material.
See what it does with one of your own sources.
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3 lifetime AI Chat messages
1 free AI creation total
2-minute podcasts and video lectures
1 free file upload total (8MB)
5 lifetime quiz questions
1 completed practice exam total
15 lifetime voice minutes
32-page PDF to flashcards
500 lifetime autocomplete words
Use it to generate flashcards, improve a deck, or create a podcast, video lecture, slides, infographic, mind map, study guide, worksheet, spreadsheet, story book, timeline, SOP, flowchart, lesson plan, or outline — or run Deep Research or turn a recording into AI Meeting Notes.
Steady weekly output from the material you already have.
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Everything in Free, plus:
10 AI creations per week
Unlimited AI chat & autocomplete
Podcasts up to 60 minutes, videos up to 45 minutes
Unlimited file uploads (up to 300MB)
Unlimited study sessions
Unlimited exams & quizzes
1000-page PDF to flashcards
Export to Anki
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For work where being right matters more than the price.
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Everything in Premium, plus:
80 flexible AI creation credits every week
80 AI creations per week
Podcasts up to 60 minutes, videos up to 45 minutes
Unlimited uploads up to 1 GB, plus 3,000-page PDFs
12 hours of voice mode per day
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AI chat
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AI creations
AI creations share one credit balance across every creation tool. Standard models use 1 credit; Frontier models Sol and Opus use 3.
Podcast length
Free episodes are fixed at 2 minutes. Paid plans can set a target length up to 60 minutes.
Video lecture length
Free lectures with a length control are fixed at 2 minutes. Paid plans can set a target up to 45 minutes. Short stays about 30 seconds.
File uploads
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Practice questions
Practice exams
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Scholarly has enhanced the quality of notes and questions I administer to my tutees. Insightful, to the point.
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Diana
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Scholarly has been a valuable tool for my studies. The AI-generated flashcards and intuitive features make organizing and retaining information much easier.
Briana
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This app is great for studying for big test. Drop your PDF's in the system and it'll do the trick. You can organize it specifically for your needs.
Kelvin
Scholarly user
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Generating flashcards, improving a flashcard deck, making a podcast, creating a video lecture or infographic, building slides, a spreadsheet, or a story book, making a mind map, study guide, or worksheet, having an AI Agent create a timeline, SOP, flowchart, lesson plan, or outline, running Deep Research, or processing a recording uses your free AI creation. It is a lifetime free credit and does not reset. AI Chat, autocomplete, quiz practice, voice, exams, and file uploads have separate lifetime allowances.
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Yes. For a school or organization-wide rollout, contact us at hello@scholarly.so and we'll help you find the right setup.
You'll see a prompt to upgrade. Your existing work is never lost — limits only apply to new actions. Free-plan allowances are lifetime credits and do not reset. Premium includes 10 AI creations per week, podcasts up to 60 minutes, video lectures up to 45 minutes, unlimited uploads, chat, autocomplete, quizzes, and exams, plus more daily voice time.