Boards
A board is one topic's notes as cards on a sheet, and everything the platform makes is made from it.
A board is one topic's notes, laid out as cards in columns. Your flashcards, papers, vivas, lectures and Learn course are written from it, so they ask about what you wrote down.
Boards usually sit in a subject's index. One outside any index sits under Your boards on the home page. On the bar, the board's name always takes you back to the board, and Index beside it lists the other boards in its subject.
- Shop display — invitation to treat, not an offer: Fisher v Bell
- Advertisement — usually an invitation too, unless the wording is a promise anyone may accept: Carlill v Carbolic Smoke Ball Co
Telex, fax and email are treated as instantaneous, so acceptance takes effect where and when it is received: Entores v Miles Far East.
A counter-offer destroys the original offer, which can no longer be accepted (Hyde v Wrench). A request for information is not a counter-offer (Stevenson v McLean).
- Revocation before acceptance, communicated to the offeree
- Rejection, or a counter-offer
- Lapse of time, or death of a party
| Takes effect | When |
|---|---|
| Acceptance — on posting | Post is a reasonable means and the letter is correctly addressed and stamped: Adams v Lindsell |
| Revocation — on receipt | Always: a withdrawal posted first still arrives too late: Byrne v Van Tienhoven |
On the iPhone a board reads as one column in reading order, with its study surfaces as tiles at the top.
Filling#
A new board offers five ways in, and you can mix them.
- Let the AI write it. Say what should be on it, tick suggested headings, or both, and it writes those sections.
- Upload a PDF or Word document. Pick PDF pages twenty at a time, then keep the layout, split them into one card per heading, or use them as material for the AI to write from. A Word file's text is material and its pictures become cards. The file itself is opened in your browser, not uploaded.
- Paste. Press ⌘V, or Ctrl+V, anywhere on the board. Text, files and images land in Sources.
- Pull from Sources, where screenshots, files and phone notes wait.
- Write a section yourself.
Later, Fill board in the edit toolbar adds more: drop in material or say what is missing, and its suggestions skip what the board already covers.
On the iPhone, Build with AI (or Add sections with AI on a board with sections) works from what it should cover, pasted notes, photos, a PDF's text or a link. Add a section writes one by hand. Importing a document page by page is on the web.
AI drafts are a starting point; see editing a board.
Surfaces#
Board is the notes. The other tabs are made from them, and open once the board has enough on it to study from (modes):
- Learn: a course through the board, the big picture first, then one lesson at a time. A board with nothing tested yet offers Start with the big picture in its title row.
- Cards: flashcards, each brought back just before you would forget it.
- Exam: a timed written paper, marked against your notes.
- Lecture: the board as an audio lecture, with the script on screen.
- Oral: stations you answer aloud, marked on your examiner's criteria.
Papers, vivas and lectures are written for your examiner, worked out from what you study. What you get wrong becomes new cards for you to keep. Each board also has a Must not miss core: the few points you cannot leave out. Build it from the board's title row; each paper and station writes its own.
Views, on the bar, shows the same notes in another shape, such as a mindmap, an algorithm, a timeline or a comparison table. A view is built the first time you open it and kept. In Edit mode, + Add to board puts it on the board as a picture card, on the page you are looking at or another you choose. Views is on the web only.
Heat#
Progress, on the bar in Study mode, colours each section by how well your cards and papers say you know it.
- Struggling: you are failing the cards here, or losing marks on it in papers.
- Needs work: some of this goes wrong when you are tested.
- Fading: was fine, but not tested in over three weeks.
- Known: recent cards or papers show you have it.
- Ready to review: has cards you have not reviewed yet.
- Untested: no cards, never tested. Make some.
Click a section to make cards, be quizzed, get a lecture, or add it to your study list. A key in the corner says what each colour means. Progress is on the web only.