Materials
Every source you are learning from, and the document CogniPage writes from each one.
A material is one thing you are learning from: a web page, a document, a lecture, a podcast episode, a book. Everything else in CogniPage hangs off materials — cards, quizzes, analytics and reflections are all scoped to them.
Where materials come from
- Automatically, when you read a tracked document, page or video — one material per source, created the first time it is captured.
- By hand, with Add material, which is how you start a physical book before pointing a camera at it.
Finding your way around
The toolbar above the list narrows it down:
| Control | What it does |
|---|---|
| Search | Matches material names as you type. |
| All | Everything, unfiltered. |
| On-screen | Read from a window on this computer. |
| Hard copy | Scanned from a printed page with your camera. |
| Watched & listened | Captured from video or audio. |
| Sort | Recently updated (default), oldest first, or name A–Z. |
Each row can be renamed or deleted. Deleting a material removes what was captured from it.
Inside a material
Open one and it splits into two views:
The readable document CogniPage wrote from your captured passages — ordered, headed and cleaned up, so a fragmented capture reads like a chapter. Built with AI, on request.
The raw captured passages in the order they arrived, each editable and removable. This is the source of truth; the structured document is derived from it.
Where the material came from a page or file, the external-link button beside the title reopens the original source.
Editing what was captured
Capture is not perfect, especially from scans and transcripts. In the Segments view you can correct the text of any segment or delete one outright. It is worth doing before generating cards: everything downstream is written from these passages, so a fixed typo here fixes every card that would have inherited it.
What to do with a material
- Turn it into flashcards — from the session-end prompt, or from Waiting for you on Home.
- Build an assessment from it.
- Scope Analytics and the KWL chart to it, to see what you know about this one source.