Studying From Your Own Notes
Upload your own PDFs, images or text files and Learning Clarity reads them, pulls out the sub-topics, and builds a roadmap you can study, test yourself on, sit an exam on, or turn into a podcast. This page covers exactly what you can upload, what it costs, and what to do when a file will not go through.
What You Can Upload
Open Create Topic and choose Upload Resources. You can select several files at once, and they are read together as a single body of material.
- PDF — up to 40 MB per file.
- Images (PNG, JPG, JPEG) — up to 10 MB each, and at most 7 images in one upload.
- Plain text (.txt) — up to 5 MB per file.
- Everything together — up to 50 MB in a single upload.
What You Cannot Upload
Word documents and PowerPoint slide decks cannot be uploaded directly. Save or export them as PDF first — every word processor and presentation tool offers this from its File menu — and the PDF uploads normally.
What It Costs, and the One Thing to Know First
Building a topic from uploaded material needs a balance of at least 1,000 credits before it will start. Signing up gives you 500 free credits, so the upload route is not available on the starter balance on its own.
When a File Will Not Go Through
- A scanned or photographed page — a PDF that is really a picture of a page has no text layer to read. If you cannot select the text in a PDF reader, neither can we. Export a version that contains real text, or upload the original document the scan was made from.
- A password-protected PDF — remove the protection and upload it again.
- Too large — split a long document into parts and build a topic from each. Smaller topics also produce sharper sub-topics.
- Too many photos — more than 7 images in one upload is refused. Send them in batches.
What Happens After the Upload
Your material is read and broken into sub-topics, and from then on it behaves like any other topic — Explain Mode walks you through it, Quiz Mode and Exam Mode test you on it, and it can be read aloud, turned into a podcast episode, or talked through out loud.
How This Differs From Asking a General AI Chat
A general assistant will happily summarise a document you paste in, and for a quick answer that is often enough. The difference is what survives the conversation: here your material becomes a roadmap that remembers where you stopped, timed exams with a mastery report, and an examination history you can look back on. The material stays the source; the studying is what gets built on top of it.