Frequently Asked Questions
Everything you need to know about Snaplearn — from your first upload to knowing exactly which concepts you have not learned yet.
Upload a lecture recording, a PDF, or a YouTube link. Snaplearn breaks it into concise notes with stories and visuals, then asks you active recall questions built from the same source — so you are testing yourself on what your own lectures actually covered. A learning map shows which concepts you know and which you do not, and your notes go deeper on the weak ones.
Every concept is scored on its own from how you answer its active recall questions — weak, good, or solid — rather than one grade for the whole document. The learning map shows where you stand concept by concept, so you can see your gaps before an exam does.
They follow your score. On a concept you are weak on, Snaplearn goes back to your source and pulls the sentences that explain it further — the mechanism, the reason behind a term, the worked example. On a concept you have proven, the note collapses to an ultra-concise version so revision time goes where it is needed.
The notes are built from text taken from your upload. When Snaplearn expands a concept, every added sentence is checked against your source document before it is kept, so nothing is written from outside knowledge. You can always jump from a note back to where it came from.
Lecture recordings, YouTube links, PDFs, textbooks, and slide decks. It is built for dense, terminology-heavy material, so long lectures and technical chapters are the normal case rather than the exception.
It is built for exactly this kind of load — hour-long lectures, dense PDFs, and heavy terminology across anatomy, pharmacology, and pathology. Your concise notes come from your own curriculum rather than a pre-made deck, and the learning map shows which concepts you know before the exam does.
Keep it if you want — Snaplearn does not make Anki decks. What it replaces is the hours before the deck: reading the lecture, working out what actually matters, and writing the questions. Snaplearn does that from your own material, then tests you on it with questions that get easier when you miss and stop coming back once you have recalled it cold.
Each fact can be asked as a short answer, a fill in the blank, or multiple choice. You get the hardest version first — recall it from memory, with nothing in front of you. Miss it and the next question on that fact gets easier; miss it every way and it comes back worded differently. Answer it properly and that fact stops being asked.
Yes. Record in class or upload audio afterwards and Snaplearn returns concise notes, one for each concept, plus active recall questions you can use to test yourself before the exam.
Upload the chapter and Snaplearn breaks it into concise notes and writes active recall questions from them, so you can test yourself without writing questions by hand.
Yes. Paste any lecture or tutorial link and Snaplearn works from the spoken content, turning a video you would otherwise watch passively into notes and questions.
Yes. Every note is editable — fix terminology, add your own emphasis, or merge in your own annotations before you study from it.
The learning map shows how much of each topic you have been tested on and how you scored, so you can see your weak spots at a glance. Study streaks track how consistently you are showing up.
There is a free tier with core note generation and active recall questions so you can run a real lecture or chapter through it. Paid plans lift the limits.