What's New in Flaevo: @ Your Courses, and Flae Writes Your Notes

This update is one idea landing in several places: Flaevo should work from your material, not from the internet's idea of your subject.

That means you can now attach a course to any chat, Flae writes proper notes from the files you upload, whole textbooks work at last, and every session keeps what she made from it. Here is each one.

Type @ and Flae answers from your course

Open a chat with Flae and type @. Your courses come up. Pick one, and everything she says from that point comes out of that course's material.

The difference is bigger than it sounds.

Ask any AI about equilibrium and you get a correct textbook answer — in notation your lecturer does not use, with a definition that is slightly not the one you were given, covering two things that are not on your syllabus and skipping the one that is. It is right, and it is not what you are being examined on.

Attach your course and she answers from the handout you were actually given. Your lecturer's symbols. Your course's emphasis. The example from your own slides.

Where it matters most is the night before. You do not want a general explanation of buffers at 11pm. You want the buffer question the way CHEM 122 asks it.

A few things worth knowing:

She reads the relevant parts, not the whole book at once. For a big course that is what keeps the answer fast. You do not have to do anything for this to happen.

There is a search box if you have a lot of courses — type a few letters of the name instead of scrolling a list.

It works alongside everything else. Attaching a course does not put Flae into a special mode. She will still mark a photo of your working or explain something unrelated; she just has your material to hand.

Flae reads your handout and writes it up

The other half happens when you upload.

Your lecturer gives out a PDF. Forty pages, exported from slides, three words to a line, half the diagrams captioned and nothing explained. You are supposed to study from that, and most students do the only thing they can — read it again, and again, hoping some of it sticks. It does not, and there is a reason it does not.

Flae now reads that file and rewrites it as notes a person can actually study from: proper sentences, real headings, tables where the material is a table, worked steps where the material is a derivation.

Everything in those notes comes from your file. She is not allowed to bring in facts from anywhere else, and the app checks her work before saving: if the write-up drifts into vocabulary that was never in your document, or stops halfway through, it is thrown away rather than shown to you.

That last check matters more than it sounds. A rewrite that quietly stops two-thirds of the way through looks perfectly fine — it just silently loses your last chapter. Flaevo now catches that and refuses it.

To find them: open My Courses, tap a course, then tap any session inside it. There is a Notes tile next to Listen, Quiz, Cards and Flae.

One thing to be straight about. Notes are written when a file is imported. Courses already sitting in your library were brought in by the old version, which only chopped them into sessions — so they have no Notes tile, and nothing runs over them later to add one. If you want notes for a course you already uploaded, upload the file again. It takes a minute, and you get the whole set: notes, quizzes, flashcards and a podcast built from your own material.

Every session now shows what Flae made from it

The session screen has been rebuilt around that idea.

It used to be a reader — the raw text pulled out of your file, mangled equations, page footers glued into sentences, and nothing else. That was not worth reading, so we removed it.

What is there instead is everything that exists for that session, in one place:

A podcast tile that knows its own state. Not made yet, being made, playing, or ready with its length shown. Not a button that hides what is behind it.

Quiz and Cards that remember. Once you have sat the quiz, the tile says so and offers it again. Once the session is in your review deck, it is ticked. You are not left guessing what you already did three days ago.

The Notes tile, when Flae has written them.

Flae, already scoped to that session, so you can ask about this specific topic without setting anything up.

And a line from Flae at the top telling you what is worth doing next, which changes depending on what you have already done.

Underneath it all: everything Flae makes stays here, so you can come back to it. That is the actual change. Work you did on a session used to evaporate — a quiz you sat, a podcast you generated, gone the moment you navigated away. Now the session is where it lives.

On a tablet or a laptop it also lays out like a tablet or a laptop, instead of a phone screen stretched sideways.

Textbooks work now

This one is worth explaining properly, because it was badly broken.

Flae could only rewrite a document up to a certain length. Past that, the app gave up on writing and split the file mechanically instead. If you uploaded a 140-page book, the first thing in that file is its table of contents — so the "lesson" you got was the contents page, and the chapters never became anything.

A student uploaded a maths book and asked to be taught complex numbers. What came back stopped at the topic list, because the topic list was all Flae had been handed.

Flaevo now reads a long document in sections, writes each one, and stitches them back in order. A whole textbook produces notes for the whole textbook. If one section fails, only that section falls back — you do not lose the book.

Something we got wrong, and fixed

Because Flae reads the relevant parts of a large course rather than all of it, she was holding an excerpt — but she had not been told it was an excerpt.

So when a student asked about matrices and the matrices chapter was not in the part she had been given, she told them their book did not cover matrices.

Their book covered matrices. Chapter four.

That is a worse failure than not knowing, because the student trusted it and moved on. Flae now knows when she is holding part of a course, and in that case she looks further or says she cannot see it — she will not tell you your own material does not contain something it plainly does.

Also in this update

Folders stopped costing you a course. If you made folders to organise your courses, each one was counted against your upload limit. A Pro subscriber with nine documents and three folders was told he had used all twelve. Folders are free now, as they always should have been.

Payment unlocks immediately. A leftover trial marker could outrank a real subscription, so a student who had just paid was still treated as being on a trial.

Sessions are named after what is in them, rather than every session in a course inheriting the name of the cover slide.

How many courses you get

Five on the Free plan, eight during the trial, twelve on Pro, and unlimited on Max. Folders do not count.

If you are carrying six or seven courses this semester, Free will hold your heaviest subjects — and there is a way to work that rather than uploading everything you own.

Getting it

Update Flaevo from the Play Store, or download the latest APK from flaevoapp.com. If the app has been open a while, close it fully and reopen it after updating.

Then do two things, in this order.

Upload one handout — the course you are furthest behind in — and open a session to read what she wrote.

Then start a chat, type @, pick that course, and ask it the question you have been avoiding.