Study from your own lecture notes and see where every answer comes from
Lecture notes are fragmentary by nature: a definition on one slide, the example that explains it three weeks later, a formula with no words around it. Put a course's notes in a Search+ workspace, ask questions the way you would ask a tutor, and open the cited excerpt to see which lecture each answer came from, so you revise from your course and not from a generic explanation.
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Last updated October 2026
How to revise lecture notes with Search+
- Upload a course's notes
Add typed notes as Word files, slides saved as PDFs and scanned handwritten pages to one workspace per course, up to 10 files at a time. Add the syllabus too, so questions can refer to the course's topics and dates.
- Tell it how you want to study
Set Workspace Context, for example "I am revising for the final; answer from my notes first and say when the notes do not cover something". It applies to every question in the workspace.
- Ask, check the lecture, ask again
Ask about a concept, open the citation to see which lecture it is in, then ask a follow-up. Conversations are saved, so you can continue the next day.
Questions students ask about their notes
How did the lecturer define opportunity cost, and which lecture was it in?
Where in the notes is the example that uses this formula, and what are the steps?
How does week 3's topic on supply shocks connect to week 7's material on inflation?
Which topics on the syllabus do my notes barely cover?
What are the main points of the chapter 4 lectures, with the part of my notes each one comes from?
What does the lecturer say the exam will focus on, if anything, in these notes?
What studying from lecture notes needs
Slides and notes leave out what was said aloud. If an answer seems thin, the notes may not contain the explanation; check the cited text and fill gaps from the textbook.
Courses build week by week. Ask where a term first appears to see the lecture that introduced it, then follow later uses.
Search+ reads scanned notes with OCR, but messy handwriting and crowded margins are where it can misread a word or a symbol. Check those citations against your original pages.
Answering from your own notes keeps the terms, notation and emphasis your lecturer used, which is what an exam usually expects.
Each answer carries inline citations to the excerpt it used; open one to read the slide or paragraph in your notes.
Your workspace, notes and conversations stay saved, so revision can run across the term.
Kinds of lecture material and what to ask
| Material | What it usually holds | A question to ask Search+ |
|---|---|---|
| Slides | Headings, bullet points, diagrams' labels | What are the key points of the lecture on market failure? |
| Typed notes | Explanations in your own words | How did I summarize the argument in week 5? |
| Problem sheets | Questions and worked solutions | Which problem sheet practices this method? |
| Handouts and readings | Extra material the lecturer gave out | What does the handout add to the lecture on this topic? |
| Syllabus | Topics, schedule, assessment | Which topics will the final exam cover? |
What does it mean to use AI on lecture notes?
Using AI on lecture notes means asking questions across your course notes and slides and getting answers drawn from them, with citations, so you can revise, find explanations and test yourself on the material you were actually taught.
Lecture notes questions
Can Search+ make a study guide from my lecture notes?
Can I use it to test myself on my notes?
Will it work with slides and handwritten notes?
What if my notes do not cover a topic?
Can I keep a separate space for each course?
Can an answer be wrong even with my own notes?
Revise from what you were actually taught
Start a workspace for your course, upload your notes, and ask your first revision question.
Start a workspace