A notebook built into every lesson

Reading a lesson is the easy part. Remembering it three weeks later, on exam day, is where most studying quietly falls apart — you followed every line at the time, and now it's a blur.

Notes is how you keep what you read. It's a full rich-text notebook built into EnCiro, one click from every lesson. Write a concept in your own words, or have the AI tutor draft a clean summary you tweak — either way it's saved in a notebook tied to exactly what you were reading. No second app, no Google Doc you'll never open again.

A lesson reading page with the Notes button outlined in gold in the top-right toolbar, next to the Ask AI button — Every lesson has a Notes button in the top-right (outlined here). One click opens the notebook for that concept — right beside what you're reading.

Two kinds of notes

Every note is one of two kinds, and the only difference is what it's attached to.

Lesson notes belong to a specific concept. Open any lesson, hit Notes, and the notebook for that concept slides in beside it — read on the left, write on the right. Come back a month later and it's exactly where you left it.

A lesson on the left and the Notes panel open on the right, showing formatted study notes for the same concept — Lesson notes dock to the side of the lesson, so the material and your notes sit on screen together — and every keystroke autosaves.

Standalone notes belong to nothing in particular — a blank canvas for the things that cut across lessons: a running formula sheet, a list of your weak spots, an exam-day game plan. Start one from the Notes hub with the +.

The Notes hub with a standalone note open titled 'My exam game plan', showing a bulleted list of weak spots and an exam-morning checklist with checkboxes — A standalone note isn't bound to any single lesson — ideal for cross-topic summaries, formula sheets, or an exam-morning game plan.

A note takes its name from its first line

Whatever you type on the first line becomes the note's title in the hub — so lead with a short heading like "Preferred share types" and it's instantly findable later. A note you haven't written in yet simply shows as "Untitled" until you do.

A real editor, not a text box

This isn't a plain text field — it's a proper writing surface, built for studying:

Select any text and a formatting toolbar appears right above it — bold, italic, highlight, headings, lists, links. No menus to hunt through.
Checklists for the things you want to tick off, like review steps or exam-day to-dos.
Everything autosaves. You'll see "Saved" the moment you stop typing — nothing to lose, nothing to remember to do.
Need a formula? Math typesets too (KaTeX), so yields and ratios render properly instead of sitting there as raw text.

A paragraph selected in the notes editor with a floating formatting toolbar above it showing bold, italic, strikethrough, code, highlight, link, headings, and list buttons — Select any text and the formatting toolbar appears right above it — bold, italic, highlight, headings, lists, and links, all without leaving the keyboard.

Type first, format second

Don't stop to format while ideas are flowing. Get the words down, then select a phrase and use the pop-up toolbar to bold the key term or turn a few lines into a list. Styling after the fact is faster — and keeps you thinking, not fiddling.

Everything in one place: the Notes hub

Click Notes in the sidebar and you land in the hub — every note you've written, lesson and standalone alike, newest first. One search box runs across all of them, titles and body text, so the half-remembered note on ex-dividend dates is a couple of keystrokes away.

The Notes hub with 'dividend' typed in the search box, the list filtered to the two notes that mention it, and one of them open in the editor on the right — Search spans every note — title and body. Type 'dividend' and each note that mentions it surfaces at once. The night before the exam, this is the page you live in.

Let the AI do the heavy lifting

You don't have to write every note yourself. While you're reading, the AI tutor can turn the lesson into clean, structured notes and drop them straight into that lesson's notebook — you just refine from there. It's the fastest way to get from "I read it" to "I have notes on it."

That's its own short walkthrough: AI-Powered Notes.

Your notes, on every device

Notes live in your account, not your browser — start one on your laptop, add to it from your phone on the train, and it's all there. Nothing is trapped on a single device.