Ask AI
Ask about your lecture, and get an answer from it
Select a passage, open a card or a section of your notes, and ask. Nila answers from your own material first, shows the page it used, and can turn the answer into cards
How it works
- Step 1
Ask where you are
On a card while you review, on a section of your notes, or on a passage you select.
- Step 2
Get an answer you can check
Nila uses the relevant parts of your material first, labelled with the source and page.
- Step 3
Keep what helps
Add a table or figure from the answer to the card, or make new cards from the conversation.
Grounded in your material
General chatbots answer from everything they have read. Nila’s Ask AI is given the parts of your own lecture that bear on your question, with their source and page, and uses those first. When it goes beyond your material, it says so rather than presenting it as something your lecture said. It answers in the language you ask in.
Answers in the right shape
An answer can include a step-by-step pathway, a comparison table, a formula, a mnemonic or an analogy, drawn the same way as your notes. It can find a licensed picture on Wikimedia Commons, or explain an image you upload.
From an answer to a card
Add any part of an answer to the card you are on, create up to three new cards from one answer, or turn a whole conversation into a set of cards. Ask AI can also check a card against its source and suggest a clearer version.
Made to help you think
In controlled trials, students who used a chatbot that simply gave answers did better in practice and worse on the exam; students whose AI gave hints and made them reason did not have that problem. Use Ask AI after you have tried, to check and explain. Read does studying with AI help?
Questions
How much does it cost to ask?
Each question uses one AI credit; making a set of cards from a conversation uses five. The free plan includes 300 credits, and paid plans include 5,000 to 20,000 a month. See pricing.
Can it see my whole lecture?
It is given the parts of your material most relevant to the question, labelled with their page, rather than the whole file at once.
Read on
- FeaturesNotes that show how a lecture fits togetherNila turns lecture slides, recordings and readings into study notes: processes step by step, comparisons side by side, formulas explained, your lecture’s own figures, and a map of how it connects
- FeaturesTurn your PDFs and slides into cards worth reviewingUpload a PDF, PowerPoint or Word file and Nila writes cards from it: questions, cloze, tables, step-by-step pathways and quizzes, each linked to the page it came from
- FeaturesA concept map of every lecture, and of everything you studyNila draws a concept map of each lecture with labelled links, asks you to fill in the key ones, and joins every map into one Atlas across your courses
- GuideDoes studying with AI help you learn?Randomized trials of students learning with AI chatbots: when AI help raised practice scores and lowered exam scores, when an AI tutor doubled gains, and what separates the two
- GuideRetrieval practice: why testing yourself beats rereadingThe testing effect, explained from the studies: how much recalling helps, why it feels worse than rereading, which kinds of questions work best, and how to practice it
Start with one lecture
Upload one lecture and read it as notes with a map of how its ideas connect. Free to start