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New from 7 November

Study from anything: upload notes, slides, photos and links

From 7 November, every LearningClarity account can turn Word files, slides, photos of handwritten notes, YouTube videos and web pages into lessons.

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A desk in morning light with a notebook of handwritten notes, a printed slide deck, a textbook and a phone

From Saturday 7 November 2026, you can build lessons in LearningClarity from almost anything you study from: a Word file, a PowerPoint deck, a Markdown note, photos of your handwritten notes, a whole textbook chapter photographed page by page, a YouTube video or an article on the web. And uploading is open to every account, including during the free first week.

Until now, you had to export Word and PowerPoint files to PDF first, and scans and video links couldn’t be used. That changes on 7 November.

A student holds her phone over a notebook to photograph her handwritten notes
Nadia's handwritten notes, one photo per page.

What you can use from 7 November

  • Files: PDF, Word (.docx), PowerPoint (.pptx), plain text (.txt) and Markdown (.md), plus images in PNG, JPG or JPEG. Several files can go into one upload; the size limits are shown on the upload screen.
  • Your phone’s camera: photograph handwritten notes, printed handouts or a whole chapter, one page at a time, and upload the photos. Scanned pages and photos are read automatically, and scanned PDFs are read too.
  • A YouTube link: paste a link to a public video and LearningClarity turns it into a topic. You can add a short note on what to focus on.
  • A web page: paste a link to an ordinary web page, such as an article, and LearningClarity builds learning content from it.

LearningClarity follows your material’s own structure, its table of contents, headings or slide titles, so the subtopics match what you gave it and the lessons use its own examples. You can add notes for the AI and choose the learning language before you create anything.

Three ways to start

Nadia is in her first year at university, and half of what matters is in her own handwriting. The evening before a revision week, she photographs ten pages of notes on her bed, one photo per page, and uploads them. LearningClarity reads the pages and builds a topic with subtopics that follow her own headings. (Nadia, Felix and Rosa are fictional learners.)

The student at a library table, smiling as she works through a lesson on her laptop
From her own pages to a lesson she can work through.

Felix started a new job on Monday. His onboarding pack is a PowerPoint deck and a Word document of procedures. He uploads both exactly as he received them, no exporting, and works through the topic one short section at a time in Explain Mode, then checks himself in Quiz Mode, where “I don’t know” is an honest answer rather than a guess.

A new employee at an office desk looking at a training slide deck on his laptop
Felix's onboarding deck, uploaded as it is.

Rosa wants to learn something new for herself. She starts with a public YouTube lecture she liked and an article on the same subject, pastes both links, and studies at her kitchen table in the evenings.

A woman at her kitchen table in the evening, a tablet propped up and a notebook open, starting a new subject
Rosa starts with a video and an article.

A topic, a course or a learning plan

You don’t have to decide how big the result should be. Depending on how much material you give it, LearningClarity creates a single topic, a course of several topics, or a learning plan of several courses. Ten pages of notes become a topic; a stack of lecture decks for a whole module can become a course. (If you’d rather build a course from a description, see how the AI course generator works.)

From there, everything works as before: Explain Mode to learn, Quiz Mode to practise and Exam Mode to prove it, with your progress tracked for every subtopic.

Three learners in three places, each studying on their own device
Three starting points, one way to learn.

Good to know

  • Clear, well-lit photos work best. A page with no readable text can’t be used, and password-protected PDFs can’t be read.
  • YouTube videos must be public; live, private and age-restricted videos can’t be used. The length allowed is shown in the app, and there is a daily limit on YouTube topics.
  • Audio and video files, such as lecture recordings, can’t be uploaded as files.

Start on Saturday: open the LearningClarity study platform, take a photo of one page of your notes or paste one link, and see what it becomes.

Frequently asked questions

Which files can I upload to LearningClarity?

PDF, Word (.docx), PowerPoint (.pptx), plain text (.txt) and Markdown (.md) files, and images in PNG, JPG or JPEG. You can also paste a link to a public YouTube video or to a web page. The size limits are shown on the upload screen.

Can I upload handwritten notes or scanned pages?

Yes. Photograph the pages with your phone’s camera and upload the photos, or upload a scanned PDF; the text is read automatically. Clear, well-lit pages work best, and a page with no readable text can’t be used.

Is uploading included in the free first week?

Yes. Uploading your own material is open to every account, including during the free first week.

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