Editing a board

Sections, layout and pages, the two modes, the pen tray, and the two ways back — undo and restore points.

Everything on a board is editable, including what the AI wrote. Correct it, or you will be examined on somebody else's words.

Sections#

Each card is one section: a heading and a body. In Edit mode, click a card to type in it.

A toolbar floats above the open card. On the left: the pen (the dot paints in the colour you used last, the arrow beside it picks another or removes a highlight), Text (a paragraph, a sub-heading, bullets, a numbered list, or an equation), bold, italic, underline and a picture. On the right, Edit with AI opens a menu of what the AI can do, each with a line saying what it does:

Complete writes the rest of the section from what is there.
Write fills a new section from its name. Type the name, press Enter, then press Tab in the empty body (on a touch screen, the button). It may suggest a corrected name; untick it to keep yours.
Shorter condenses it.
Format tidies the formatting without changing the content.
Check looks for anything wrong or out of date.
Translate puts it into another language. The languages open under it.

Under them, type what you want changed ("add the doses") and press Enter. Highlight some lines first to act on those alone; the top of the menu says which it will be. The result comes as a diff with a tick beside each line, and only what you keep is applied.

+ Add, in the edit toolbar, adds a section, a table, a heading, a page break, or a picture from a web search. The ⋯ on a card's head adds a section, table or picture below it, merges it into the one above, or deletes it. A dashed Section slot at the foot of each column, on every page, adds a card there.

A picture is read so cards, papers and search can use it: as soon as it lands on a paid plan, or when you press Describe this picture on a free one. A picture of a page can be swapped for its words (Replace with the text), and Show swaps it back.

Layout#

Drag a card by its head to move it, or by its right edge to span more columns. The count beside the board's name (12 sections | 3 columns) sets the number of columns, one to six. Reflow under it lays the board out afresh in that many columns, without its headings and page breaks.

A heading is a line across the board: the cards stop above it and start again below it. A page break does the same with a heavier rule and begins a new page. With two or more pages, numbers down the right edge take you to each one (PgUp and PgDn work too). Drop a card you are dragging on a number to move it to the foot of that page.

Sort by regroups the same cards under new headings without rewriting them. Back to your own layout undoes it. Check board fact-checks every section and shows the corrections in one review; it needs a paid plan.

Modes#

A board is either being edited or being read, and each board keeps its own mode on every device. A new board starts in Edit. The Study | Edit switch on the bar, beside the board's name, says which mode you are in, and the row under the bar changes with it.

Edit: press Edit, and the row under the bar turns into tools: + Add, Fill board, Sort by, Check board, undo, redo, History and Views, with the board's language, its section and column count and Done at the right end. Cards edit, drag and resize, and an "Editing" tab sits at the foot of the screen. Study or Done puts the tools away. On a board with too little on it to study from, both stay dimmed and say why. Sources is on the bar in both modes; pressing it while reading switches the board to Edit and opens it.
Study: the board locks. The row under the bar holds the board's tabs (Board, Learn, Cards, Exam, Lecture, Oral), Views and Progress. You can select text for the pen tray. Edit on any of the board's pages takes you back to the board in Edit.

Press E to switch, or ? for every shortcut. In a phone's browser or a narrow window, a board is always in Study mode.

The iPhone app has no Edit board. Long-press a section to edit it, add a section, heading or page break below it, move it up or down, or delete it. Its editor is plain text, and says first if saving would drop formatting it cannot keep. Columns, dragging, the card toolbar's AI, Sort by and Check board are on the web.

Pen tray#

In Study mode, click a line to take its sentence, or drag over exactly the words you want, and a small tray appears above it. It looks like the Edit toolbar.

The pen. The dot highlights in the colour you used last, in either mode; the arrow beside it picks one of the four. Highlights sync and survive edits, but an AI rewrite of the section removes them. Click a mark to recolour it, or to remove it from the same menu.
Explain gives a short answer about the selected phrase, in context. Past about sixty words it becomes Summarise.
Auto play, the speaker at the end of the tray, reads aloud whichever paragraph you click while it is on. The speaker on a section head reads the whole section. A player at the foot of the board pauses, skips and stops it.

To rewrite or translate a selection, use the card's toolbar in Edit mode. On a board shared with you to view, there are no pens.

On the iPhone, tap a paragraph for Explain or Summarise, Read aloud and the pens, which highlight the whole paragraph. Long-press a section to explain or read all of it.

Maths#

Write formulae as LaTeX: $ ... $ inline and $$ ... $$ for a display equation on its own line. Single dollar signs are not used. Formulae render once you leave the card. The iPhone draws display equations and shows inline ones as written.

History#

Undo (⌘Z, or the arrows in the edit toolbar) steps back through up to sixty changes in this tab, and ⇧⌘Z redoes. Reloading clears it.

History, beside the undo arrows, keeps restore points: at most one every fifteen minutes, kept for thirty days, thinned to one a day after two days. Restoring brings back the notes and flashcards as they were, and deletes papers set on the board since. The confirmation counts all three. You can undo a restore. While your storage is full, images you remove are not kept, so an older version may come back missing a picture.

The iPhone has no undo. To take back a change made there, restore an earlier point from History on the web; it rolls back the whole board.