Getting Started · First 5 Minutes
Start your first learning session
Pick a Point of Knowledge, run a command, save what works. Five minutes to your first study session.
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You have a Point of Knowledge ready. Now use it.
1. Pick a PoK and open the chat
From the dashboard or the Sources page, click any PoK. The Learning Chat opens scoped to that PoK — you'll see the PoK title in the chat header.
2. Run your first command
Type / and the command list appears. Three commands worth trying first:
/explain— Ritsu walks you through the PoK like a tutor, step by step. Best when the topic is new./quiz— five multiple-choice questions on the PoK. Best when you've read the material once and want to check what stuck./flashcard— a deck of spaced-repetition cards. Best when you need to memorise.
Pick one, hit Enter. Ritsu starts streaming the response.
3. Interact with the response
Each response type has its own affordances:
- Markdown (from
/explain,/summarize, etc.) — read it, follow up with another command, or click highlighted concepts to dive deeper. - Quiz — answer each question. After each, Ritsu shows the right answer + a one-paragraph explanation. Score at the end.
- Flashcard deck — three buttons appear when the deck arrives: Save deck, Practise now, Refine. Save it to come back to; practise opens the spaced-repetition trainer.
4. Save what worked
Anything you'd want to come back to — a deck, a quiz score, a saved explanation — gets a bookmark icon. Click it. Saved items live under the PoK and survive across sessions.
5. Keep going
A normal study session looks like:
- Run
/explainto understand - Run
/quizto test - Save the questions you got wrong as flashcards (use
/flashcard <topic>) - Run
/quizagain tomorrow on the same PoK
That loop is the whole game. Ritsu's job is to make each step take seconds instead of hours.
Tips
- Stay in one PoK per session. Switching PoKs mid-session resets context — you'll repeat work.
- Use
/backto step back to a previous response without losing scroll position. - Use
/clearto wipe the chat for a fresh start without losing saved decks.
Next
- How the Learning Chat works — under-the-hood
- Learning Commands — full reference for every slash command
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