AI Chat — for your notes, with your provider

The best study questions arrive while you are reading, and the worst place to ask them is a separate tab with no context. Chat lives in the workspace, next to your material, so the question you just thought of gets asked while you still have it. Ask how a concept works, why two sources disagree, or whether you have actually understood the chapter — the conversation happens where the studying happens.

You choose who answers, and the tool is honest about it. Connect your own AI provider — a hosted API under your key, or Ollama running on your own machine — and chat talks to that model. Connect nothing, and it falls back to free web search, telling you plainly that is what happened and returning links you can open and check. The settings panel always shows which provider is active, so there is no guessing about who saw the transcript.

The productive moves are the simple ones. Interrogate a definition until it stops confusing you. Bounce an essay argument before you commit it to paper. Ask the chat to play examiner and challenge your explanation — excellent rehearsal for vivas and interviews. And when something sounds surprising, ask where it came from; the follow-up is where the real learning happens.

Privacy follows the route you picked: with Ollama, the whole exchange stays on your machine; with a hosted provider, your messages go to it and nowhere else; with nothing configured, queries travel through the search relay and come back with citations. Free, no account, and the model is always yours to choose.