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. It holds your own notes — typed, pasted, imported or drafted for you — as cards laid out in columns, and you rearrange them the way you would rearrange paper.
It is also the unit everything else is made from. The flashcards, the written paper, the spoken viva and the audio lecture for a topic are written from that topic's board, not from its name, so they ask about what you actually wrote down.
Boards usually sit in a subject's index, under a part of it. A board that belongs to no index is still a board: it sits under Your boards on the home page until you file it.
- 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 |
Filling#
A new board is empty and names five ways in. They mix freely — most boards end up made of two or three of them.
- Let the AI write it. It proposes headings for the topic; you tick the ones you want and it writes those sections. Nothing is generated until you ask.
- Upload a PDF or Word document. PDFs are read in your browser: you see the pages and pick which to import, twenty at a time, and choose whether to keep the page's own layout, cut it into one card per heading, or use it as material for a fresh board. A Word file comes in with its images. Neither file is uploaded anywhere.
- Paste your own notes. Paste anywhere on the board and the text lands in the scratchpad, ready to fold in.
- Pull from the scratchpad. Screenshots, files and notes sent from your phone stack up there until you sift them.
- Write a section yourself. A blank card you type into.
What the AI drafts is a starting point, not a result. Every card is editable, and editing a board is most of the work.
Surfaces#
The bar across the top of a board carries its tabs. Board is the notes themselves. The other four are made from them:
- Cards — flashcards written from these sections, scheduled so each one comes back just before you would have forgotten it.
- Exam — a written paper set from this board in your exam's own format, sat against a clock and marked against your notes.
- Oral — stations to be examined on aloud. You speak, and the answer is transcribed and marked on your examiner's criteria.
- Lecture — the board read back to you as an audio lecture, with the script on screen.
The four appear in Study mode; while a board is in Edit mode the strip is out of the way, because all four read a finished board. See Edit and Study.
Exam, Oral and Lecture each need an examiner — the persona for the exam you are sitting — before they will run.
Everything those surfaces produce comes back to the board. What you got wrong becomes new cards. And the board carries a Must not miss core: the handful of points a marker will not forgive you for leaving out, written from these notes and shown beside your answers on every paper and viva.
Heat#
Progress, on the bar in Study mode, colours every section by how well you know it. It reads your own cards and marked papers, so a board you have not drilled yet is entirely untested — that is the honest answer, not a fault.
- Struggling — you are failing the cards here, or losing exam marks on it.
- Needs work — some of this goes wrong when you are tested.
- Fading — was fine, but has not been tested in over three weeks.
- Known — recent cards or exams show you have it.
- Ready to review — has cards you have not reviewed yet.
- Untested — no cards, never examined. Make some.
While it is on, clicking a section opens what to do about that section: make cards from it, be quizzed on it, have a lecture written on it, or put it on your study list. It is a place to look next, not a score.