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Record a lecture, paste a YouTube link or bring your own notes. YSR Studies turns them into organised study notes and flashcards, and tells you what's been checked.

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5 hours of study time every month, free. No card needed.

  • Live lecture recording
  • Notes and flashcards in seconds
  • YouTube to study notes
From your lectureNotes

Foundations of limits

  • Limit definition: a limit asks what f(x) approaches as x → a, without needing f(a) to exist.
  • Factorisation: factor x² − 1 into (x − 1)(x + 1) and cancel (x − 1).
  • Evaluating the limit: after cancelling, f(x) = x + 1, so the limit at 1 is 2.
Warm-up · FractionsDue now

A pizza is cut into 8 equal slices. You eat 3 and your friend eats 2. What fraction of the pizza is left?

3/8. 8 slices, 5 eaten, 3 left — 3 of the 8.

Added to your deck

Show the working8 − 3 − 2 = 3 slices left, so 3 of 8: 3/8
How did it feel?HardGoodEasy
Course mapLearned · Shaky · Not shown yet
From a YouTube linkSections

00:00What a derivative measures

04:20The slope of a tangent line

09:05The power rule, worked

Example output, shortened.

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Everything you study, turned into something you can review.

A lecture you sat through, a video you watched, notes you wrote at midnight. Bring it in, and it comes back organised.

Live lecture recording

Record the lecture. Keep the notes.

Press Record when class starts and Stop when it ends. One tap turns the recording into organised study notes: headings, key terms in bold, what was said folded underneath. They're saved in your Notes.

  • WhereIn your browser, on your phone or your laptop.
  • KeptThe recording waits 24 hours for you to turn it into notes. The notes stay.
  • ThenFlashcards from the lecture, one tick each.
Lecture recording · notesExample

Foundations of limits and function behaviour

In short: a limit describes the value a function approaches as its input gets close to a point, even where the function isn't defined.

  • Limit definition: what f(x) approaches as x → a.
  • Factorisation technique: cancel the common factor first.
  • Evaluating the limit: lim f(x) as x → 1 is 2.

▸ What was said

Instant notes and flashcards

Notes become flashcards in seconds.

Every set of notes comes with flashcards drawn from it. Tick the ones you want and they go straight into your deck, scheduled to come back just before you'd forget them. Bring your own text, a paper or a lecture: same thing.

  • FromLectures, YouTube videos, papers, your own notes.
  • ThenSpaced repetition decides when each card returns.
  • YoursExport your deck to Anki or Markdown any time.

What does a limit describe in calculus?

The value a function approaches as the input gets arbitrarily close to a point.

Keep

How do you simplify (x² − 1) / (x − 1)?

Factor the top into (x − 1)(x + 1) and cancel (x − 1).

Keep

Added 2 to your deck

YouTube to study notes

Paste a link. Get structured notes.

Paste any YouTube lecture. You get notes in sections, each with its timestamp, so a tap takes the video straight to that moment. No captions on the video? Paste its transcript instead.

  • StructureSections, short summaries, key terms in bold.
  • TimestampsTap one and the video plays from there.
  • HonestMarked as the video's words, not a checked source.

In our production test on 9 October, a lecture video became seven timestamped sections in under ten seconds.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=…Make notes
Notes from a videoExample
  • 00:00What a derivative measures
    The rate of change at a single instant.
  • 04:20The slope of a tangent line
    Secant lines that shrink to one point.
  • 09:05The power rule, worked
    d/dx of xⁿ is n·xⁿ⁻¹, with two examples.
  • 13:40Where students slip
    Constants, negative powers and roots.

New · Study Scroll

Smart scrolling, replacing doom scrolling.

A feed in the Home tab. Each post is a true story from a real study or a real book — psychology, history, money, persuasion, science — told in six beats as you scroll, with its source on every frame. What you've scrolled goes to the back, so nothing comes round until you've seen it all.

  • A Study Scroll post: Most people are decent at heart. Six boys, one island, no adults — 15 months.
    The real Lord of the FliesBregman 2019
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    The 15-hour week that never cameKeynes 1931
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Fast, and honest about it

AI study tools go wrong in three ways. This one shows its work.

  1. You try first. The answer stays on our server until you've had a go.
  2. It coaches, then shows. A hint and a question come before the worked answer.
  3. Code marks it. Your answer is checked by code, and every source is named.

"It's confidently wrong."

Checked, and it says so.

Questions from your course are checked against the course's own answer key; the checker compares the mathematics, not the spelling. Anything made from your own material is marked Unverified and doesn't count toward your mastery.

UNVERIFIED

"It does the work, so I don't learn it."

It coaches first.

Mark a question as graded work and the tutor walks you through it instead of handing you the answer. In a checkpoint, asking for help is recorded, never penalised.

"Where did that even come from?"

It shows its sources.

The tutor lists the course texts it used, from openly licensed textbooks cited with their licence, or tells you it had none.

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See it remember.

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For parents

Built for students, with the grown-ups in mind.

What happens with your child's account, said plainly.

  • A guardian is asked for under 18The app asks for a parent or guardian when the account is set up.
  • No advertising tracking for anyone under 18A minor's activity never reaches an ad platform.
  • Where the data livesNorth America: the app runs in Toronto, and accounts and backups are stored in the United States.
  • Theirs to take or deleteExport everything at any time, or delete the account and its work.

Pricing

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  • Checkpoints and progress
  • Notes from lectures and videos

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  • Unlimited tutor turns
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Questions

Answered plainly.

Who is it for?

Students 13 and up in Canada and the US: Ontario high school courses, SAT and IELTS prep, and university courses.

Is this cheating?

It's built not to be: mark work as graded and the tutor coaches instead of giving the answer. Your school's rules come first, so check with your teacher.

Will it ever be wrong?

The tutor can be. Course questions are checked against the answer key, and anything unchecked, including notes made from a lecture or a video, is labelled as such.

Does recording a lecture cost study time?

Making notes from a recording or a video uses study time, like the tutor does. Each plan has a daily number of notes jobs; Free includes 12 a day.

IELTS?

Practice for IELTS Academic. Any band it gives is an unofficial estimate, and YSR Studies is not affiliated with IELTS.

Which languages?

English, French, Arabic and Chinese, for the app and the tutor.

Can I take my work with me?

Yes: a full export, or a course as an Anki deck or Markdown.

Your next lecture is your first set of notes.

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