The study guide maker for students who want control

A study guide maker helps you build a structured study guide instead of starting from a blank page. Scholarly's version is a hybrid: you choose the structure and template, and the AI fills each section from your uploaded lecture notes, PDFs, or textbook chapters — then everything stays fully editable.

Every major subject: STEM (math, physics, chemistry, calculus, statistics), life sciences and medical (USMLE/NBME, anatomy, microbiology), law (case names, statutes), history, languages, computer science, business, and economics.

No. You can make study guides on the free plan, subject to lifetime free AI creation limits. Premium includes 10 AI creations each week and supports longer document uploads, but the core maker — templates, AI filling, editing, and export — works free.

Yes, export to PDF for printing or offline review. You can also convert your study guide into a flashcard deck or generate a practice test with one click.

Yes, full editing — add sections, remove anything you already know, rearrange the order, or expand specific topics with more detail. The hybrid workflow assumes you will: editing the guide is itself studying.

A useful rule: condense by 5-10x. A week of lectures (say 30 pages of notes) should become a 3-6 page guide; a full textbook chapter becomes 2-4 pages. If your guide is approaching the length of the source, you're transcribing, not distilling — cut the detail and keep the structure, terms, and connections.

Study guides are comprehensive — full coverage of all the material. Cheat sheets are condensed — only the highest-density facts on a single page. Use a study guide for full review and a cheat sheet for the day of the exam.

Five parts: a big-picture overview, sections ordered the way your course taught the material, key terms defined in your professor's context, the connections and contrasts between concepts, and 3-5 self-test questions per section. The connections section is the one students most often skip — and the one exams most often test.

Both, deliberately split. Deciding the structure — what the sections are, what's important, what connects to what — is real studying, so do that part yourself. Transcribing definitions and rewriting explanations is drudgery, so let the AI fill that in from your source. That hybrid is exactly what this study guide maker is built for.

Paste or upload your lecture notes, choose a template, and lay out one section per major topic in the order your professor taught them. Then let Scholarly fill each section from your notes — key terms with the example your professor used, a plain-language summary, and 3-5 self-test questions. Building that skeleton yourself is where the learning happens; the AI just removes the retyping. Everything stays editable so you can prune what you already know.

Yes. Upload the chapter as a PDF and the maker reads it directly, then drops its concepts, definitions, and worked examples into whichever template you picked. Aim to condense by 5-10x — a full chapter should become a 2-4 page guide. Because the guide is grounded in the file, you can trace any section back to the page it came from.

Yes — making study guides is free to start with lifetime free AI creation limits, and no credit card is needed. The core maker (templates, AI section-filling, full editing, and PDF export) works on the free plan. Premium includes 10 AI creations each week and supports longer document uploads for heavier exam prep.