The Notes tab turns your uploaded documents into structured, AI-generated outlines at three levels of detail. Here's how to use it, save your notes, send them to the AI chat, and make them part of your revision workflow.

What the Notes Feature Does

Most students treat notes like a second copy of the textbook — they rewrite everything. That's not studying, that's transcription.

The Notes feature on QuizGenius does something different. It reads your entire document and distils it down to the most important points, structured hierarchically — so you can see what matters, how it fits together, and what to focus on for revision. No transcription required.

The result is a formatted outline you can study directly, save for later, export as a file, or send to the AI assistant for further analysis.

Where to Find It

The Notes feature lives in the Document Hub under the Notes tab.

Go to My Documents.
Click any saved document.
Click the Notes tab in the tab row.

If you're on a note or outline you've already saved, the Notes tab works on that too.

Choosing a Detail Level

Before generating, you choose how detailed you want the outline:

Level	Best For
Brief	Quick overview — main topics and key headings only. Ideal for documents you already know well, or for a rapid pre-exam scan.
Medium	Balanced summary — main topics with supporting details. The default. Works for most study sessions.
Detailed	Deep dive — comprehensive notes covering subtopics, definitions, and specifics. Best for learning new material or complex documents.

Pick your level using the radio buttons, then click "Generate Outline".

Try Brief first. A Brief outline is generated faster and gives you the skeleton of the document. Then, if you need more depth on a specific section, generate a new outline at Detailed level with a narrower focus.

What Happens After Generation

Once your outline is generated:

It appears in the outline viewer with formatted headings, bullet points, and hierarchy.
It's automatically saved to your account with a default name.
You'll be taken to the Outline Viewer where you can read, copy, export, or act on the content.

You don't need to manually save — it's done for you. But you can rename it to something more descriptive.

Reading and Using the Outline Viewer

The Outline Viewer (/outlines/[id]) is where your note lives after generation. From here you can:

Copy to Clipboard

Click the Copy button to copy the entire outline as formatted Markdown text — ready to paste into Notion, Obsidian, WhatsApp, or anywhere else.

Export as a File

Click the Export/Download button and choose your format:

PDF — clean, printable, great for revision sheets
Word (.docx) — editable in Microsoft Word or Google Docs
Markdown (.md) — for Obsidian, Notion, Bear, GitHub, etc.

See the full export guide for detailed steps.

Send to AI Assistant

Click "Send to Chat" (or the assistant icon) to open the AI Chat with your outline already loaded as context. You can then ask things like:

"What are the 5 most testable points in this outline?"
"Create 10 flashcard questions from this content."
"Explain section 3 in simpler language."

Generate a Mind Map

From within the Outline Viewer, you can generate a Mind Map directly from your notes. This is often better than mapping the raw document — the notes are already condensed, so the map is cleaner and more focused. See the Mind Map guide for more.

Managing Saved Notes

All your outlines are saved in Saved Outlines, accessible from the sidebar.

From there you can:

Rename an outline to something memorable (e.g. "Biochem Ch.4 — Enzymes")
Delete outlines you no longer need
Open any outline to re-read, export, or continue working with it
Generate a quiz from an outline — opening an outline in the Document Hub lets you take a quiz on it

Notes are stored on your account and accessible across devices.

Using Notes as a Whole Study System

The real power of the Notes feature is how it chains with everything else:

Step 1 — Generate: Upload a document and create a Detailed outline from the Notes tab. This gives you a clean, structured version of the content.

Step 2 — Understand: Read through the outline. Anything confusing? Open the AI Assistant and ask for a simpler explanation of that section.

Step 3 — Map: Generate a Mind Map from the outline to see how all the pieces fit together visually.

Step 4 — Test: Go to the Quiz tab on the same document and generate questions. Or switch to the outline viewer and click "Quick Test" to quiz yourself on the outline content directly.

Step 5 — Review: Before your exam, open the outline and do a final pass. For any section you can't confidently explain out loud, go back to the quiz or the AI assistant.

The Goal: By the time you've done all five steps on a document, you've engaged with the material six or seven times in different ways — reading, discussing, mapping, testing, reviewing. That's the difference between "studying" and actually learning it.

Tips for Better Notes

Upload chapter by chapter. A detailed outline of a 20-page chapter is far more useful than a brief outline of an entire 200-page textbook. Break large books into smaller uploads.
Rename your outlines immediately. The default name is the document title. Renaming to something like "Enzymes — Km and Vmax Summary" makes it easy to find later.
Generate multiple levels. Generate a Brief outline for a quick overview, then a Detailed one for the sections you need to study deeply. Keep both saved.
Use the AI chat on your notes, not just your documents. The AI assistant can do more with a clean, structured outline than with raw document text — because the noise has already been removed.

Ready to try it? Go to My Documents, open any file, and click the Notes tab. Your outline is about a minute away.

How to Use the Notes Feature: Turn Any Document Into Study-Ready Outlines