Why your notes are the better source
Every course has its own focus. Terms are defined differently, models get different names, some details matter and others don't. An answer from a language model's general knowledge can be correct and still miss your material.
When the explanation comes from your notes, you learn exactly the wording and connections that count in your course. And you know where to look it up.
How your documents get into KnowFi
You pick the files you study with once in the app. KnowFi reads their text right on your Mac and includes it as context with every evaluation.
- PDF files with a text layer, such as lecture slides and scripts
- Text files (.txt) with your own notes
- Markdown files (.md), for example from Obsidian or other note apps
Good to know about scanned PDFs
To a computer, a scanned document is just an image at first. KnowFi needs readable text, so run text recognition (OCR) on scanned PDFs first, for example in Preview, Adobe Acrobat or with the scan feature of many note apps. KnowFi tells you when a file contains no readable text.
From your notes to the reasoning
Open a practice question, press your shortcut, and KnowFi finds the matching passage in your documents. The menu bar shows the answer, one click shows the reasoning. You don't just check whether you were right, but why.