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Notes Tutorial

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Notes turns any uploaded material — a PDF, slide deck, video, or audio recording — into a clean, structured study document. StudyFetch reads the source, pulls out the key ideas, and organizes them with headings, bullet points, and bolded terms so you can study the material without re-reading the whole thing.

Creating Notes

There are two ways to get Notes for a piece of material.

During material upload

When you upload a file from Add Material, the upload dialog includes a Generate Study Notes toggle. Turn it on and you're asked what depth of notes to generate: Summarized Notes, In-Depth Notes, or Comprehensive Notes. An Advanced section below the format choices lets you control Chapter Splitting (Auto / On / Off) — whether a long document gets broken into separate materials by chapter before notes are generated.

The Upload Files dialog, subtitled Add PDFs, documents, images, and more. An Extract images from document toggle, described as Pull images from your documents to use in notes and chats, is off. Under the question What type of notes would you like to generate? three cards read Summarized Notes, which is selected, In-Depth Notes and Comprehensive Notes. An expanded Advanced section holds Chapter Splitting with three choices: Auto Automatic, which is selected, On Always split, and Off Never split. Cancel and Upload 1 File buttons sit at the bottom. — Upload Files, note options. Summarized Notes is selected and Chapter Splitting under Advanced is set to Auto.

From an existing material

If a material was uploaded without notes, or you want to regenerate them, open the material and use the Turn Into menu to generate a Notes document from it — the same way you'd turn a material into Flashcards or a Practice Test.

Using your generated notes

Once generated, Notes open in a document-style editor with a toolbar for formatting (bold, italic, lists, alignment) alongside history, print, and full-screen controls. You can view Notes on their own, or in Split Screen next to the source material — handy for checking a note against the original page it came from.

A material open in Split Screen. On the left the PDF newtons_laws_test.pdf is shown at 100% zoom, page 1 of 1, headed Newton's Laws of Motion - Study Notes. On the right the generated notes are titled Newton's Laws of Motion with a page citation chip reading 1, and bullets for First Law (Law of Inertia) and Second Law (Law of Acceleration) with bolded terms such as unbalanced force, net force and mass, each followed by a chip reading 1. A formatting toolbar with font, size, bold, italic, underline and strikethrough controls sits above the notes, and the view switcher at the bottom offers Notes, Transcript, View PDF and Split Screen, with Split Screen selected. — newtons_laws_test.pdf, Split Screen. The source PDF sits on the left and the generated notes on the right, with page citation chips beside the key terms.

Notes are fully editable — click in and type just like a regular document. Smart formatting (headings, bullets, bold key terms) and math notation are preserved even after you edit, and a Notes document can include images extracted from the source material if you enabled that option at upload.

Restoring a previous version

Every edit is saved automatically. Click the history icon in the toolbar to open Version history, which lists versions grouped by day and timestamp. Selecting a version shows its full content on the right; Show changes compares two versions, and Restore this version rolls the document back.

The Version history modal. A Search versions... box sits at the top of the left column above a single entry, Jul 22, 2026 4:07:46 PM, tagged Current, with a Show changes button at the bottom of that column. The right pane is headed Jul 22, 2026 4:07 PM with a Restore this version button, and shows the note Newton's Laws of Motion with bullets for First Law (Law of Inertia), Second Law (Law of Acceleration) including the relationship F equals m times a, and Third Law (Action and Reaction), each carrying page citation chips reading 1. — Version history, one saved version. The list shows Jul 22, 2026 4:07:46 PM marked Current, and the reader clicks Restore this version or Show changes.

Clarify and explore with Sparky

Highlight any passage in your notes and an Edit With Sparky action appears above the selection — use it to have Sparky rewrite, expand, or simplify that passage in place, without leaving the notes editor.

The notes pane in Split Screen with the text First Law (Law of Inertia): selected and highlighted in blue. A dark Edit With Spark.E button sits just below the selection. The source PDF newtons_laws_test.pdf is open on the left at 100% zoom, page 1 of 1, and the view switcher at the bottom shows Notes, Transcript, View PDF and Split Screen, with Split Screen selected. — newtons_laws_test.pdf, Split Screen. Selecting First Law (Law of Inertia): in the notes brings up an Edit With Spark.E button.

You can also open the Sparky chat directly and ask questions about the material generally — the same Sparky chat available throughout a Study Set.

Features and capabilities

Notes documents include smart formatting (headings, bullets, bold key terms) applied automatically during generation, page-citation links back to the source material, support for math notation, and full text editability. Because Notes are just another material in your Study Set, you can use Turn Into to generate Flashcards, a Practice Test, QuizFetch questions, an Audio Recap, or other formats directly from your notes.

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