From Lecture Notes to a Podcast in One Sitting
How the Study app turns sources into a notebook that grows cell by cell, quizzes you, builds a plan, and reads the whole thing back as a two-speaker podcast.
Yantra Team2 min read
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Study is an AI notebook. You put sources in, it builds cells you can keep, and a tutor sits beside the notebook. When your eyes are tired, it turns the notebook into a podcast. Here is a full session, start to finish.
Minute one: the tutor asks about you
The first time you open Study, a seven-step setup asks your name, when you study best, how you like to be taught, how much coaching you want (light check-ins to high-accountability), and whether you want it to know about your Google Drive, Canvas LMS or iMessage. The last two are preferences for now, not live syncs, and you can skip them.
Minute two: drop in the sources
The intake card takes a file, a link or pasted text. Each source becomes a note cell plus an AI outline. Text-like files up to 4 MB work best. A syllabus, three lecture PDFs and a link to the textbook chapter is a normal starting point.
Minutes three to twenty: work the notebook
The composer says "Write a markdown note, or describe a cell for AI to write". Both are cells. Your notes and the AI's explanations sit in one document, and the tutor chat on the right uses all of it.
Suggestions worth pressing:
- Summarize my sources
- Explain it simply
- Quiz me
- Make flashcards
- Practice problems
- Build a study plan
The notebook is the transcript. Come back tomorrow and it is exactly where you left it.
Minute twenty-one: make the podcast
- Click Podcast on the floating toolbar.
- On Template, name the show, set two speakers with a name, role and tone each, pick a voice per speaker, choose the language, style and length.
- On Context, pick the cells to cover, or select all.
- Generate podcast. You watch it script, speak each turn, and stitch.
- Listen on the Episodes tab, or download it for the walk.
Providers are FAL MiniMax by default, xAI Grok TTS, and ElevenLabs if you have credits there. If a provider reports a quota, switch to another and regenerate.
Two honest limits
Podcast episodes are stored in the browser you made them in. Download the ones you want to keep. And the connected-apps step is a preference today, not a sync, so drop files in yourself.
Not a student?
Study works the same for a certification, a new codebase, or a stack of contracts you need to understand by Friday. If the source is a research paper and what you need is a poster, that is Paper2Poster instead.