Study Materials Built From Your Own Course
Most AI tools make generic content from the open internet. Bo is different. It is built for your course, not for the internet. You upload your own material, and both Bo's answers and the materials you make come only from it, with every answer citing the exact page, second, or source it came from.
Bo reads what you give it: PDFs (including scanned and handwritten ones), photos, YouTube videos, and websites. From there you can turn dry source files into materials you will actually open and review.
What you can upload:
| Source | Examples | What Bo does with it |
|---|---|---|
| PDFs | Lecture slides, textbook chapters, scanned notes | Reads them, even handwritten or scanned |
| Photos | Whiteboard shots, photographed pages | Pulls the text and figures |
| YouTube | Recorded lectures, explainer videos | Works from the transcript with timestamps |
| Websites | Course pages, reference articles | Reads the page and cites the source |
Because everything is grounded in your upload, the materials match your syllabus instead of a generic version of the topic.
Build Seven Kinds of Study Material From Your Material
You can make seven kinds of study material and nothing else. Each one is cited back to your source, tagged by concept, and written in your language.
The seven kinds:
- Flashcards: Key terms and ideas pulled straight from your upload, each card cited
- Quiz: Practice questions to check understanding, with the source for every answer
- Practice exam: A longer, exam-style set to build confidence before the real thing
- Study guide: A structured walkthrough of the material, organized by concept
- Cheat sheet: A dense one-look summary of the essentials
- Summary: A clear, short version of a long source
- Mind map: The connections between ideas, laid out visually
Press New material, pick the kind you need, and press Create. Everything is built from your uploaded course, so there is no made-up content and nothing off-syllabus.
Mind Maps That Show How Your Ideas Connect
A mind map turns a wall of text into a picture of how concepts relate. The map is built from your own material, so the links it draws are the ones in your course.
What the mind map gives you:
- Structure: Ideas organized from the big picture down to the details
- Connections: How one concept depends on or relates to another
- Your source: Every node traces back to the page or section it came from
- Your language: The map is written in the language you study in
Mind maps help when a topic feels like a list of disconnected facts. Seeing the shape of it makes the whole subject easier to hold in your head.
Quizzes and Practice Exams That Match Your Course
Checking yourself is the fastest way to find what you do not know yet. Quizzes and practice exams are built straight from your upload, so the questions test the material you were actually given.
What you can build:
- Quiz: Quick checks for understanding while you study
- Practice exam: A longer set to rehearse exam conditions
- Cited answers: Every question points back to the source, so you can go back and read it
- Concept tags: Each question is tied to a concept, which feeds your mastery view
Because the questions come from your own course, there is no guessing whether a topic is relevant. If it is in your upload, it can show up in your practice.
See What You Have Mastered
Every artifact you make feeds a per-concept mastery view. As you review flashcards, answer quiz questions, and work through practice exams, StudyPDF tracks which concepts you have a handle on and which still need work.
How mastery helps:
- Concept-level detail: You see progress per concept, not just one overall score
- Clear next step: The weak concepts tell you what to study next
- Built from real work: Mastery moves as you actually review and answer, not from guessing
- Tied to your source: Each concept links back to where it appears in your material
This is the honest version of progress tracking. It is grounded in your own material and your own answers.
Export Your Materials Anywhere
Your materials do not stay locked in the app. Export them to PDF on every plan, or to Word and Anki on Pro and up, and use them however you study.
Export options:
- PDF: Print a cheat sheet or study guide, or read it offline
- Word: Edit and adjust the content in your own document (Pro and up)
- Anki: Send flashcards into your existing spaced-repetition routine (Pro and up)
You keep control of what you make. Build it once, then take it wherever your study routine lives.
Stay Consistent With a Daily Streak
The hardest part of studying is showing up every day. StudyPDF keeps a simple daily streak that grows each day you come back. There is no points system, no badges, and no leaderboard. Just a quiet count of the days you stayed consistent.
A streak works because the goal is small and clear: open StudyPDF today, keep the streak alive. Over a term, those daily visits add up.
Built for Any Subject and Any Language
Bo works from whatever you upload, so the subject does not matter. Slides, a textbook chapter, a recorded lecture, or a photo of your notes all work the same way.
What stays true across subjects:
- Cited: Every artifact points back to your source
- Concept-tagged: Materials are tied to concepts and feed mastery
- Your language: Materials come out in the language you study in
- Your material only: Nothing comes from outside what you uploaded
Why Grounded Materials Matter
When study materials come from the open internet, you cannot fully trust them. They might cover the wrong edition, skip what your professor emphasized, or quietly invent a fact.
Bo avoids that by working only from your upload and citing every answer. If Bo says something, you can click straight to the page or timestamp and check it yourself. That is the difference between guessing and knowing.
FAQ: Creating Study Materials
What can I upload?
PDFs, photos, YouTube videos, and websites. PDFs can be scanned or handwritten. StudyPDF reads them, and everything you make is grounded in what you uploaded.
What kinds of study materials can I make?
Seven kinds: flashcards, quiz, practice exam, study guide, cheat sheet, summary, and mind map. Each one is cited back to your source and written in your language.
Are the materials accurate to my course?
Yes, because they come from your own upload. Bo is built for your course, not for the internet, and it cites the exact page, second, or source for every answer so you can check it.
Can I export what I make?
Yes. PDF on every plan, Word and Anki on Pro and up.
How does Bo track my progress?
Per concept. As you review flashcards and answer quiz and exam questions, Bo updates a per-concept mastery view that shows what you have a handle on and what to study next.
Is there a free version?
Yes, free to start, with no card required. Free gives you about 4 materials a week. Upgrade to Pro for more, about 35 a week.
What language are the materials in?
The language you study in. Every artifact comes out in your language, matching the material you uploaded.
Start Building Study Materials Today
Stop fighting with generic content that does not match your syllabus. StudyPDF lets you upload your own course and turn it into cited flashcards, quizzes, practice exams, study guides, cheat sheets, summaries, and mind maps.
Built for your course, not for the internet. Everything you make is grounded in your material and tracked per concept, so you always know what to study next.
Start with Bo: free to start, with paid Pro and Ultra plans when you need more.
