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Paste Text: Turn Raw Text into Something Usable

Not everything you work from lives in a file. Paste Text lets you drop raw text — a meeting transcript, notes from any app, an article, a passage from a manual — straight into Scholarly. The text is saved as a source in your library, and from there you can build anything from it.

Where to Find It

Paste Text lives inside Upload, alongside your files and links:

  1. Open New → Upload (or Add content from anywhere you are adding material).
  2. Choose Paste text from the control at the top of the window.
  3. Paste and continue.

On a phone, Paste Text is a row that opens its own page; tap Back when you are done.

The standalone Paste Text shortcut that used to sit in Home's tool row was retired in September 2026 to keep the create menus short. Nothing about pasting changed — it is one step further in, under Upload.

How It Works

  1. Paste your text into the box. You can paste up to 100,000 characters — a running counter shows how much room you have left.
  2. Click Add text. The text joins your queued sources, named after its first line.
  3. Add more sources if you want — files, links, or more pasted text. You can mix pasted text with PDFs, YouTube links, and Drive files in the same batch.
  4. Click Next and choose what to make.

You do not have to click Add text first — pressing Next with text still in the box accepts it, on a phone as well as on a computer, with the same length limit and checks.

If what you paste is only a web address, Scholarly notices and adds it to your links instead of saving it as a text note, and tells you it did. Paste a link without https:// and it is still accepted.

The pasted text becomes a regular source in your library, so it sticks around after the dialog closes. Like other text uploads, it's saved as an editable library file — open it later to read it, edit it, or reuse it for another creation.

What You Can Build From Pasted Text

Once your text is added, it works like any other source. From the same dialog you can create:

Or skip the creation step entirely — ask questions about the text in AI Chat, get a summary, or just save it to your library for later.

Good Uses for Paste Text

  • Meeting or lecture transcripts -- Paste a transcript and turn it into a summary, a deck, or a set of flashcards.
  • Notes from any notes app -- Copy them out and make them searchable, quizzable, or presentable.
  • An article or report you need to work from -- Paste the body and ask questions about it.
  • A passage you want explained -- Copy a dense section and have a podcast or video lecture walk through it.
  • Material someone emailed you -- Guidance, a policy extract, or a brief that arrived as plain text.

Plan Notes

  • Pasted text is saved like any other upload, so it counts toward your plan's upload allowance. See Plans and Limits.
  • Generating from pasted text uses an AI Creation Credit, the same as generating from a file.
  • How many sources you can combine in one creation depends on your plan: 1 on Free, up to 10 on Premium, up to 20 on Laureate.
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