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:

  1. Run /explain to understand
  2. Run /quiz to test
  3. Save the questions you got wrong as flashcards (use /flashcard <topic>)
  4. Run /quiz again 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 /back to step back to a previous response without losing scroll position.
  • Use /clear to wipe the chat for a fresh start without losing saved decks.

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