Guide & FAQ
How to use the app — start by dropping a lecture in the drop zone, then study it with the flashcards and tools below. Skim the cards, expand a question if you’re stuck.
How to use it
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Drop a lecture file
On the home page (the big drop zone) or in My Library — drag the file in, or click to choose. PDF, PowerPoint (.pptx), or Word (.docx), 32 MB each; once you’re signed in, up to 5 at a time.
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Sign in with a code — first time only
After your first drop, enter your email and type the 6-digit code we send — no password, no link to click. Your file waits in your browser until you’re in; once you’re signed in, every drop goes straight to the build.
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AI reads every slide
It condenses the lecture in under a minute — no formatting, no copy-paste. Watch the live pipeline as it reads, classifies, and builds.
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You get a study kit
About 20 flashcards plus 8 board-style questions, auto-filed onto the right PANCE body-system shelf in My Library. It’s built from your own material — personal-notes quality, not faculty-reviewed.
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Study it your way
Grade the flashcards — each grade schedules the card's next review right alongside the built-in deck — take a quiz graded to the boards, or ask the AI tutor about the lecture.
- Full study kits — flashcards + board-style questions
- Spaced-repetition review, auto-filing, Notes & Sketches
- Up to 30 study kits a month (5/day)
- 1 diagram deck a month — keeps the pictures from a PDF lecture over 80 slides (up to 450)
- 1 lecture quiz graded to the boards — one-time, account-wide
- 2 tutor questions a week
Everything in Free, plus:
- 8 Board quizzes a month on your own lectures, graded to the boards
- 30 tutor questions a month about your lectures
- 10 diagram decks a month
- No monthly cap on study kits (5 a day)
Two ways to study
- Review — your due cards plus a few new ones. Progress is saved and scheduled. This is the daily driver.
- Browse all — free study over any cards you choose. Good for cramming; it doesn’t change your schedule.
Grading a card (after you reveal it)
- Again — you forgot it. Resets the card and re-shows it later this same session.
- Hard — right, but a struggle. Comes back sooner than usual.
- Good — solid recall. The normal, expanding interval — your default choice.
- Easy — too easy. Pushed far into the future so it stops crowding your day.
Each button shows its next interval (e.g. 1d, 4d, 10d), so you can see exactly when the card returns.
Pace
- ~20 new cards/day by default, so you’re never buried. Reviews of started cards are unlimited.
- The number beside “Flashcards” in the sidebar is how many cards are due right now.
Where it is
Open a lecture in My Library and tap its Mind Map tab (sign in first — it’s built from your own lectures). It’s made when you ask for it, from that lecture’s own cards, plus the lecture’s own text (kept from newer uploads; older ones can attach the file on the Mind Map tab).
Using it
- Tap a topic to open it — the small boxes at the end of a branch are its pieces.
- Make it yours — tap Edit to rename, add, move or delete topics. Deleting a topic keeps its cards and sub-topics; they move up to the topic above it. Rebuilding the map replaces your edits (it asks first).
- Want to drill too? The topic’s cards are listed under the map; tap one to reveal it, then grade it — it’s scheduled just like on the Flashcards tab.
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Every lecture you’ve uploaded, turned into study kits and shelved by PANCE body system. The home of the drop zone — add more anytime; “Move to system” re-files anything.
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A real ink tool — pens, highlighter, shape-snap, and a blueprint sketch index. Annotate a slide or sketch free-hand; sign in to save across devices.
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Ask about this lecture (AI tutor)
On any deck, ask a question and get a streamed answer grounded in that lecture’s own material — not the open internet.
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Turns a deck’s own questions into a quiz graded to the boards — it flags where the lecture diverges from board-style answers.
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One lecture laid out as a map — open a topic and see its pieces (more in the Mind Map card above).
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PANCE-style multiple-choice questions by body system. Learn mode reveals the answer to study; Test mode grades you with a running score.
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Spaced-repetition review of the built-in deck and your own lecture cards, with each card scheduled to come back right when it’s due.
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A live list of what you’ve missed in the course drills on this device, most-missed first, each with a link straight back to practice it.
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Your exams, lectures and classes in one place — add dates by hand, or import your school’s calendar or a syllabus.
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See what you’ve studied and what’s coming due, with coverage across the PANCE blueprint.
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Disease and anatomy profiles by PANCE blueprint system, in a fixed High-Yield order: Pathophys → S/Sx → Gold-Standard Dx → First-line Tx.
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Drug profiles grouped by class — mechanism, black-box warnings, and high-yield notes.
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One box across the courses, drills, diseases, drugs, anatomy and medical terms — and, signed in, your own lectures. Matches word variants and drug families (“beta blockers” finds metoprolol).