Upload Study Materials
Everything you study,
in one place
PDFs, Word and Excel files, slides, YouTube lectures, websites, audio, plain text — drop anything in and PocketNote turns it into one searchable study space with chat, flashcards, quizzes, and more.
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Why it works
Answers grounded in your material
When you upload a document, PocketNote indexes its content so that when you ask a question, the system retrieves the relevant passages and answers from that material — a pattern known as retrieval-augmented generation. The grounding is why answers from your sources beat asking a general chatbot from memory, and it's what makes citations back to your documents possible.
It also keeps the promise honest. Grounding greatly reduces invented answers; it doesn't abolish the need to check. That's why PocketNote points back to the source — the definition going on your exam stays one click from the passage that proves it.
The bigger win is what one upload unlocks. Reading and watching feel like learning because everything makes sense while it's in front of you — but exams demand recall, not recognition. In Roediger and Karpicke's 2006 experiments, students who tested themselves on a passage retained substantially more a week later than students who spent the same time rereading it. Uploading once gives you the tools for exactly that: flashcards, quizzes, and questions built from the pages you'll be examined on.
Roediger & Karpicke (2006), Test-Enhanced Learning, Psychological Science
How it works
Three steps from file to study space
Drop in your sources
Drag in files, paste a YouTube or website URL, or type text directly. PDFs, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, audio, plain text — one drop zone for all of it.
PocketNote reads everything
Text is extracted, scanned pages are OCR'd, videos and recordings are transcribed. Your sources become one searchable study space.
Study it every way
Chat with citations, flashcards, quizzes, mind maps, reports, and audio reviews — all generated from the same upload, nothing generic.
Use cases
Made for the way you study
The scanned chapter
Your professor's scan is crooked, stamped, and unsearchable. OCR turns it into clean text you can question, quiz yourself on, and cite — instead of squinting at page photos the night before.
The 90-minute lecture video
Paste the YouTube link. PocketNote works from the transcript, so you can ask where the proof was covered and jump straight there — instead of scrubbing the timeline hunting for it.
The whole course, one notebook
Slides, the textbook PDF, two articles, and last year's notes in one place. Ask one question and the answer draws on all of them — with the source named, so you know where it came from.
Benefits
Built to take everything
Every format you study
PDFs, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, plain text, YouTube links, websites, and audio recordings — if you study from it, you can upload it.
OCR for scans
Scanned documents and handwritten notes are recognized and converted into searchable text you can actually work with.
Video and audio, transcribed
Lecture recordings and YouTube videos become text through speech-to-text transcription — ready for chat, flashcards, and quizzes.
Answers with citations
Chat is grounded in your uploads and points back to the source, so you can check the exact passage behind every answer.
One notebook per course
Combine slides, readings, and notes in a single notebook and ask questions across all of them at once.
50+ languages
Upload in one language, study in another. PocketNote works in more than fifty languages, for sources and for the material it generates.
Questions, answered
Start with a single
upload
Drop in whatever you study and PocketNote turns it into interactive study material in seconds.