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YSR Studies
Practice that is checked, a tutor that shows where its answers come from, notes from anything you bring. Two steps and you are in.
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Where are you studying?
This sets the level everything is taught at. You can change it later.
This only picks where you start. Everything else is one tap away.
Your courses are named the way your province or state names them.
Your courses are listed with your programme's usual first-year subjects first. Optional, and never advice about what to take.
It sets how old you are, so your level moves up with you every September. You can skip it.
Under 18 we ask a parent or guardian to agree. Nothing stops while you wait, and you can add this later.
No answer in your deck was guessed by a model: each one was computed, found by running the code, or set when the question was written.
A code we know, or a university code we have material for, opens that course; when the code could be another university's, we ask first. Any other code makes your own course, built from the files you upload.
Open material for this course
Looking for open, licensed pages that teach it…
Add your course's files
The syllabus or course outline tells us what the course covers; lecture slides and notes are what your questions are written from. PDF, Word, PowerPoint or text, up to 25 MB each — they stay in your folder.
Start with one of these:
Waiting for your first file — drop it here, or tap a kind above.
Learn
Getting your course ready…
Make flashcards from anything
Pick what you have. We turn it into notes and cards you keep.
How to copy a set out of Quizlet (30 seconds)
- Open your set on Quizlet and press ⋯ (More), then Export.
- Leave "Tab" and "New line" as they are, and press Copy text.
- Paste it below. Anki and spreadsheet lists work too.
Your flashcard sets
The course, idea by idea
Tap an idea to read it, ask about it, then practise it.
Tap the card or press Space to flip it.
Study
Loading your deck…
Your course is built from your own files: a model reads the text of each one and writes multiple-choice questions from it, each saying which file it came from. Nothing has checked these questions, and each is marked unchecked. Your files stay in your folder; their text goes to the model only to write the questions.
Build this deck
Verified practice, drawn from the course's own curriculum.
Nothing due right now
Every card you've studied is scheduled for later. Spaced repetition means coming back matters more than pushing on.
Session done
Card 1 of 1
Your recording stays on this device and is gone when you move on.
Choose one answer.
Press Enter to check. Write it however you'd write it on paper — the checker compares the mathematics, not the spelling.
How did that feel? Each button shows when you would see it again.
More
A similar one
Background on this concept
Not part of the question — chosen for your level and what you are working on.
Public pages we are allowed to point at. We searched for the concept, never for anything you wrote.
Watch a lecture on this
Ranked by who stands behind the channel first, then how well it teaches the level, then how closely it matches.
Course mapSuggested order, as the course teaches it
Learned
Shaky
Not shown yet
Our estimate from your answers.
The number on each concept is how many verified questions it has.
Tutor
Your tutor for this course
Talk it through
Prefer to say it? The Talk tab answers out loud, about this course, and its replies land in this chat too.
Look something up
Name the topic in a few words. Nothing is sent until you check the words and press Search.
Only the words you approve leave the app — and only to open libraries of papers and encyclopedias, never to a search engine that sees your chat.
The tutor answers first — the result, then the reasoning. On work you mark as graded, it coaches instead: it teaches the method and leaves the last steps to you.
Home
0 Daily streak
This term
What to study next
What you have been working on
From the feed, for this course
Study Scroll
Four hundred true stories from real studies, told in six beats as you scroll. Pick a subject; what you've scrolled goes to the back, so nothing comes round again until you've seen it all.
Talk
About your current course:
Talk it through
Hold the orb, say your question, let go — the tutor answers out loud. The microphone is asked for only when you press, and you can type instead at any time.
Hold the orb and speak; let go to send. Press it while the tutor speaks to cut in. Space works too. Up to one minute at a time.
From your notes
Pick a note and the tutor walks it through in plain language, out loud. Each one is a voice session of its own.
Where it goes
Every session's replies are in your tutor chat; its transcript, feedback and the flashcards it made are in your notes and your deck.
Record a lecture
Press Record when the class starts and Stop when it ends. We turn the recording into beautiful, organised study notes and save them for you in Notes — yours to open, simplify and talk through with the tutor.
About your current course:
The microphone is asked for only when you press Record, and it is off the moment you press Stop. Recordings are kept for 24 hours; the notes made from them are kept for you.
Or paste a YouTube link
A lecture on YouTube becomes the same kind of notes — headings, timestamps you can play from, flashcards to keep.
Or make notes from a photo or a PDF
A photo of the board, a handout, your handwritten page or a PDF — we read the text and make the same notes and flashcards.
Your recordings
Each one is kept for 24 hours. Transcribe it into notes whenever you like — the notes stay in Notes after the recording is gone.
Where it goes
Your lecture notes are saved in Notes with the rest of your notes, and the Talk tab can explain any of them out loud.
Languages
Learn a language by speaking it: short lessons, phrases you hear and say back, and a conversation with a teacher who remembers what you get wrong.
Languages is not set up on this server yet.
Your teacher's face, for talking face to face
Just want to talk?
No lesson needed. Pick something to talk about, or leave it open.
Your study plan
Each lesson teaches a handful of phrases, then has you use them in a conversation. Say enough of them clearly and the unit is done.
What your teacher remembers
Say it checks whether your phrase was understood as you said it. It is not a grade of your accent.
This lesson was written by AI and checked by rule. A native reviewer has not read it yet.
Just talk. Your teacher answers when you stop.
Library
Every idea in your course, as the course notes explain it, with where each part comes from.
Search
Look something up properly
Ask a question. We read what we are allowed to read, write you a brief with its sources numbered, collect the PDFs you can open, and cut you a set of flashcards.
What you type is searched for you and kept in your own account. It is never shared with another student and never used to train anything.
My map
How your ideas connect
Your notes, the tutor replies you pinned and your course's own ideas, joined by lines that each say why they are there. Your map is kept with your account and is never used to search.
Drag from the dot on an idea to another idea to join them. With a keyboard: Tab to an idea, press C, move to another and press Enter; Esc cancels.
Connections
Ideas from books
Ideas that changed how people think
One idea from each of 38 classic books, in plain words. Each says where it came from and how it has held up since, including the ones that turned out to be wrong.
Work
Work on an assignment, with your tutor beside it
Open a Word document or start a blank page.
Your work
Saving from the full editor…
Notes
Everything you have kept, in one place
Folder
Your own study materials
Bring in a handout, a page of notes or a past test. It stays yours — only you can see it, and you can delete it whenever you like.
In your folder
Drafts and their sources
Paste an essay draft. It stays in your folder. The tutor reads it to suggest words to search for sources, and you check those words before anything is sent.
Your papers
Save a paper from a research brief, or bring a PDF. When its licence allows it, or it is your own file, you can make flashcards from it and ask questions across your papers. Any other paper stays a link and a citation.
Nothing here is shared with anyone else, and nothing here is sent to a search engine. Deleting puts a file in the bin for 30 days first.
Progress
What you know, concept by concept
Learned
Shaky
Not shown yet
Checkpoints
A checkpoint is a short diagnostic game, never a mark. Asking for help is recorded, never penalised.
Your week
Built from your own records — concepts, answers and time — never from what you wrote. A new one arrives every Monday.
Watch for new papers
Add papers you rely on (their DOIs) and a few topic words. Every Monday we look for new open papers that cite them or match your words.
Opportunities
Internships, co-ops, fellowships and research — live
Straight from employers' own job boards and official program pages, refreshed every few hours. Tap one to open the employer's page and apply there.
Postings come from employers' own job pages and from official program pages, gathered and refreshed by YSR Studies. Check dates and eligibility on each page.
Studio
Studio gathers what you have added to this course — files, notes from videos and photos, kits, papers, Work documents and your map's ideas — and keeps an index of it on your own vault. Nothing here leaves it.
Use it from any tab: press S or the notebook button. The focus shows what your sources say about what's on your screen; Ask writes an answer from them; Make writes a study guide, Q&A sheet, timeline or insights note from them.
Pinned sources come first when Studio reads your notebook.
Add to your notebook
Each door is one you already have; what you add is filed to this course and indexed here.
How it works
The index is rebuilt on our server from your own vault whenever a source changes — after a chat turn and every night — and read from there. Asking questions over it and making study guides from it arrive next; this page will show them when they are ready.
Tracker
Deadlines, readings and projects for this course — kept in your own vault, read by Studio, yours to download any time.
Start a tracker
No cards yet. Add one, or take one from your files below.
From your files and notes
Dated lines in your files and in what the tutor kept for you, each one press from a card. Nothing is added until you say so.
Nothing dated in your files that this tracker does not already carry.
Docs & Canvas
Write pages, draw on a canvas, keep your sources beside them. Every page you write is copied into your own vault as it changes — read by Studio and the tutor as yours, downloadable any time, never shown to anyone else.
Pages in your vault
No pages yet — the first page you write appears here within a few minutes.
Runs on YSR Studies' own servers in Canada. Your pages live in your vault; the editor shows them to no one else.
Account
Study time
Study time is spent only while the tutor works for you.
Today’s allowance
Your plan
The tour
The short walk through the app you saw when you signed up — what each part does, and where your notes go.
Language
Text size
Kept on this device. Everything grows together, so nothing is cut off.
Appearance
Kept on this device. Automatic follows your system's setting.
Your work is yours
Everything below is your own vault. Export takes it out whole, in plain files, whenever you like.
What we keep
Off by default. Your live chats are never touched by this — only ones you have archived.
Consents
The full texts: the Terms and the Privacy Policy.
Sign out
Delete everything
This erases your vault, your cards, your progress and your chats, and bans this sign-in. Records of money and of consent are kept as records, with your personal details removed — that part is law, not choice.
Export first if you want a copy. This cannot be undone.