Studying & learning

Skriptr will answer your question, and it will also teach you the answer, which is a different thing and sometimes the one you want. Ask to be taught a topic and you get a tutor working from your own reading: explanations, flashcards, graded quizzes, and someone to argue the unsettled parts with. This is the half of the product people find last and then use most, usually the week before an exam.

None of it touches your document. Studying is read-only by design, so you can’t lose an afternoon’s writing to a revision session.

Can Skriptr teach me the material?

Yes. Ask it to teach you something, in whatever words come naturally: "teach me what mind-wandering actually is", "I’m new to grounded theory", "I keep getting stuck on heteroskedasticity".

The Learning Companion settles two things before it starts. First, what to teach from: your own library, so the teaching stays anchored to the papers you’re actually citing, or fresh research, if you want a wider view than your reading list. Second, how you want to learn it:

• Guided tutoring, for a topic you’re genuinely new to.
• Flashcards, a deck of the terms.
• Quiz me, graded retrieval practice.
• Visual overview, the shape of the field.
• Debate the open questions, argue the parts that aren’t settled.
• Pull apart one paper’s argument, close-read a single study.

Then it teaches one unit at a time, and stops after each one to ask whether you want to continue, go deeper, switch approach, or call it. You’re never handed a wall of text and left to it.

If you’re short on time, say so. "Get me up to speed on X in ninety minutes" runs as a crash course rather than an open-ended tutorial.

How do I make flashcards or a quiz from my sources?

Ask for them: "make me flashcards on the methods section", "quiz me on what I’ve read this week".

Because they’re built from your library rather than from the internet, the questions are about the papers you actually have to know, using the definitions those papers use. Anything you save lands in your Study view, so a deck you made in October is still there in January.

That’s the difference from typing the same request into a general chatbot. Flashcards generated from a model’s memory of a field are a plausible-sounding average of it. Flashcards generated from the six papers on your reading list are the exam.

What is Socratic mode?

A way of working where the agent guides you with questions instead of giving you the answer.

You’ll meet it as the Thinking Companion. Ask it why your argument doesn’t hold together and instead of handing you a fixed paragraph, it’ll ask what you think the claim depends on, and keep going until you can see the gap yourself.

It’s a mode, not a personality. When you want the paragraph fixed, ask the agent to fix it and it will. Socratic mode is there for the times when the answer isn’t the useful part, and reaching it is.

Can it check whether I actually understood something?

Yes. Comprehension checks arrive as graded cards in the conversation. You answer, you find out immediately whether you were right, and the session adapts to what you got wrong rather than marching on regardless.

The checkpoint after each unit is the other half of that. Continue, go deeper on what just tripped you up, switch to a different approach, or stop. Nobody learns well on a fixed schedule set by something that can’t see whether you’re following.

Where do I go next?

• Sources & your library. What it teaches from.
• Research & literature reviews. Mapping a field before you learn it.
• Working with the agent. The writing side of the same conversation.

Still stuck?

If a study session isn’t landing, or a quiz asked something your sources don’t support, tell us at contact. Questions built from your own library should be answerable from your own library, and if they aren’t, that’s a bug we want.