Studying is personal. Your tools should be too.
Most study tools are built around classrooms, feeds, rankings and generic content.
Orbily is built for the moment that actually matters:
you, facing your material, trying to understand.
- You
- Your material
- Understanding
The moment that actually matters.
A desk. A lecture you half followed. Notes, a PDF, a photo of the board, a recording. And one question you still can’t answer.
Your files, gathered into one chapter, then into ways to study it
Your learning should begin with what you actually have to learn.
Most study tools start with everyone else.
They are built backwards. First the catalogue, the community, the ranking. Then, somewhere at the end, you.
Traditional study tools
Start with
- Courses
- Communities
- Rankings
- Templates
- Generic questions
- Standardized paths
You adapt to the tool.
Orbily
Starts with
- Your notes
- Your files
- Your lectures
- Your mistakes
- Your pace
- Your exams
The tool adapts to you.
Nobody is watching.
No followers.
No public profile.
No leaderboard.
No strangers comparing your progress.
No performance to display.
Just you and what you still need to understand.
AI should remove friction. Not thinking.
Orbily uses AI for everything that stands between you and learning. It prepares, organises, questions and corrects. The learning itself is not something it can do for you.
Things AI can remove
- Retyping notes
- Formatting
- Sorting chapters
- Making flashcards by hand
- Writing practice questions
- Searching through 80 pages
- Choosing what to review
- Checking every answer yourself
Things AI cannot do for you
- Understand
- Recall
- Connect ideas
- Reason
- Practice
- Make mistakes
- Try again
- Learn
Understanding stays yours to build.
Everything starts from your own material.
Not a catalogue. Not someone else’s deck. Your lecture, exactly as messy as it was.
01Your document
A real lecture, as it came.
Half-finished sentences, a formula in the margin, a sketch, a note to yourself. Orbily takes photos, PDFs and recordings.
02Reading
Orbily reads it once.
It extracts a clean version of the content, finds the structure and names the concepts. Nothing for you to retype.
03Chapter
It becomes a chapter.
Filed in the right folder, with a one-page course: definitions, examples, formulas set apart. Your original stays linked to it.
04Study tools
Then, ways to work through it.
Every tool starts from that chapter: a full course, flashcards, practice questions, a summary sheet, the formulas, Orby to ask. Nothing to re-enter.
Wrong is useful.
If the correction tells you why.
A score tells you what happened. A correction should tell you why. So every answer in Orbily comes back with an explanation, right or wrong.
Every practice question explains its answer. Every corrected paper says what to rework.
- Wrong
- Feedback
- Understanding
- Memory
Question 3 of 12
What is the derivative of x³?
Pick an answer
Learning is not consuming. It is returning.
Orbily isn’t built to generate more content. It is built to bring you back to what you are about to forget.
Day 1
Import your material
A photo, a PDF, a recording.
Smart ImportUnderstand the chapter
One clear page, built from your own lecture.
ChapterTest yourself
Retrieve it instead of rereading it.
Active RecallGet something wrong
It happens. That is the point.
2x²Understand why
The explanation comes with the mistake.
Explanationn × xⁿ⁻¹Day 4
Return later
Just before it fades.
Again in 3 daysSpaced repetitionRecall again
Only the cards that are due.
FlashcardsDay 11
Remember
Not because you reread it. Because you retrieved it.
Again in 7 daysSpaced repetition
Reading feels productive. Recall proves it.
The best study tool eventually disappears.
What remains is what you know.
What we believe.
- 01
Your material first
Learning should begin with what you actually need to know.
- 02
Private by default
Studying does not need an audience.
- 03
AI removes friction
It prepares the work. It does not replace the work.
- 04
Recall over reading
Knowing something means being able to retrieve it.
- 05
Mistakes need explanations
A score tells you what happened. A correction should tell you why.
- 06
The tool adapts to you
Not the other way around.
- 07
Good software gets out of the way
What matters is not how much time you spend in Orbily. It is what remains after you close it.
This is Orbily.
Your material in.Understanding out.
Your material
- Photos of your notes
- PDFs and text files
- Lecture recordings
Orbily
Reads, structures and files it into chapters.
Remember
Spaced repetition
Studying will always be personal.
Your study tool should understand that.
Bring your material.We’ll help you work through it.