Let AI Bring Back What I Excerpted Next Time
Starring moves that sentence somewhere else and waits for you to remember it. An excerpt saved to notes arrives in her hands the next time you ask a related question.
A page has a sentence you can actually use: “Recalling it a day later sticks better than reading it three times in a row the same day.” You star it. The page says saved. That click feels finished, as if the job is done.
Then you ask about something else, turn two pages, and two days pass. By the third conversation, you no longer remember which sentence you saved, and nothing reminds you to look.
A few days later you come back and ask Alice: “I have too much to memorize this week. How should I schedule it?” She suggests a fixed slot each day, and reading each chunk a few more times. She never uses the sentence in your stars.
Nothing errors. The star succeeded. Alice answered normally. You don’t suspect the saved line failed. You just think her advice is ordinary: that’s how she is.
Stars live somewhere else, waiting for you to open them. This context doesn’t have that sentence, so Alice can only give generic advice.A star fails silently, so people rarely go fix it.
Below, save the same sentence twice. First star it. Then excerpt it into notes. After three conversations, ask the same question and see whether Alice uses the original line on her own.
Starring keeps the whole sentence somewhere else. Next time you ask something related, it does not put that sentence into what Alice is working on. The difference only shows up in the answer.
After three conversations, you ask how to schedule your time. Stars still hold “recalling it a day later,” and Alice still suggests “read it a few more times.” She has this page’s body and your question. Stars are not in this context.
Saved only means the sentence is still there. It does not mean the next answer will use it.Stars wait for you to remember and open them, and you’ve already forgotten. The cost of that move is counted in starring is not learning.
Select more than two characters on a lesson page and a small “Excerpt” chip appears. After you log in, you can save it in place. Under Alice’s replies there’s also a small “Save to notes” button. Old excerpts live in the Notes tab of the sidebar.
Notes live in the cloud. You don’t need the desktop app. The web app recalls related lines from your latest 20 excerpts and injects them into Alice’s context. Next time you ask how to schedule, the original sentence reaches her first. You don’t paste it again.
Alice first names the sentence sitting in your notes, then schedules review along it.An excerpt only shows what it’s for at the next related question.
What you excerpt decides what she can fish up. One note, one topic, first sentence states the conclusion. How to write that: see Let AI Help Me Write Notes I’ll Find Later.