Every lecture, on one page. Made by someone who aced it.
I got a C+ in Orgo I, then an A in Orgo II, and now I tutor the course. This is the sheet I wish I'd had: everything your professor actually said, on one page, for the classes with no slides to fall back on.
I got a C+ in Orgo I. What changed wasn't studying harder, it was knowing what to study. Then, I tutored the course for a year and watched students lose points on notes, not effort. That combination helped me understand the blueprint to succeeding in these types of classes. That's what goes on the page.
Vernon Clay · Graduating senior · Chemistry major, pre-med
Nothing to make. Just the sheet you needed.
You don't build anything. You get the finished page.
Find your course
Choose your class and professor. The set of one-pagers is built specifically for how that section is taught.
A page for each one
A new one-pager lands for every lecture, including the talk-only classes with no slides to fall back on.
Walk in ready
Study the whole unit in twenty minutes. Print it, or keep it on your phone for the night before.
The sheet you'd make if you had the time and the A.
Built for how science actually gets tested.
Made by someone who took it
Not a generic service. Every page is built from the actual recording of your lecture, by a student who sat in these exact courses.
Covers the slide-free classes
Professors who only lecture out loud leave you with nothing to review. Those are exactly the pages we make.
One page per lecture
A clean sheet for every class meeting, all term, so the whole unit is always one stack away.
Tuned to your professor
Not generic notes. What matters for your section's exams: the emphasis, the traps, the phrasing.
Exam-ready format
Dense, scannable, calm. Mechanisms, definitions, and the things people lose points on, laid out to study fast.
Up while it's fresh
A sheet goes up the same day as the lecture. If a day gets away from me, it's up by noon the next one.
This is what lands in your account.
Everything he said in that lecture, in plain language, with the memory tricks that make it stick. Nothing padded. Pull it up on your phone between classes or print it the night before.
A whole sheet from one lecture. No sign-in, nothing held back.
Pay by the sheet, or by the week.
Your first week is free. Cancel whenever you want.
- One full one-pager
- Everything from that lecture
- Mnemonics included
Available when your free week ends.
- Every lecture, every week
- Up the same day, or noon the next
- Cancel anytime
- First week free
- Whole semester covered
- Best value: save ~$37
- Up the same day, or noon the next
Available when your free week ends.
Questions worth asking.
Is this cheating?
No. Gist is study notes, not answers. It is a summary of a lecture you were allowed to sit in, written out in plain language. It is not exam questions, not an answer key, and not your professor's slides or handouts. Your school's academic integrity rules still apply, and so does whatever your instructor says about study aids. If a professor wants their course off Gist, they email me and I take it down.
What if a sheet is late?
A sheet goes up the same day as the lecture. If a day gets away from me, it is up by noon the next one. Gist is in beta right now, so here is the honest version: sheets can be late while I am still proving the process out. If one is wrong, tell me and I will fix it.
Do I still need to go to class?
Yes. This is a review sheet, not a reason to skip. Your professor writes the test, so anything he says in that room can end up on it. Gist is for the studying afterward, when your notes have holes in them and you cannot remember what he emphasized.
What if my class isn't here?
Ask for it. When you join, the last option in the class list is for a class I do not cover yet. Tell me the class, the professor, and the school. Classes get added based on how many people ask for the same one, so asking actually moves it.
Stop re-reading nothing at 2am.
Start with this week's one-pagers for your class, on us. No card to start.
You didn't have to catch it. Get the Gist.
The classes I cover.
Each lecture distilled to one clean page. Don't see yours? Ask for it and I'll look at adding it.
Your class isn't here? Ask me to add it
Turn a lecture into a one-pager.
How to record and submit. Read this once, it saves you a resubmit.
Set your recorder up once
- Voice Memos: Settings, Voice Memos, Audio Quality, pick Compressed. Lossless makes the file about 20 times bigger and it gets refused at upload. A compressed half hour is about 7MB.
- In the memo's Options, turn on Enhance Recording (cuts room noise) and Skip Silence. Both make the transcript better.
- Put the phone on Do Not Disturb before class. An incoming call stops the recording.
In the room
- Start recording before the professor speaks, stop after they finish. A recording that opens mid-sentence loses a whole block of material, and a sheet built from half a class looks complete and is not.
- Sit close to the front. The mic only catches what you can hear, and chatter next to you drowns the lecture.
- Photograph the board every time it fills, before it is erased. Straight on, whole board, up to 8 photos. In a class with no slides the board is the only record of the structures and diagrams, and the accuracy check can only catch a misheard term when it has the board to read against.
When you submit
- If the professor posted objectives for the lecture, paste them in. The sheet is built to answer exactly those, and any the lecture did not cover show as honest gaps instead of invented answers.
- Upload the syllabus once in the Class calendar below. The agent reads it for context, and the test dates go onto the calendar and students' sheets page on their own. Give them a once-over; the adjust button fixes a wrong one.
- Limits: audio up to 120MB, photos 12MB each, extras 8MB, all checked before anything uploads. Good wifi helps, and a failed submit saves nothing, so just fix it and go again from the top.
- A finished sheet reaches students only when someone publishes it, and publishing emails the class, so read your sheet first.
If the professor posted objectives for this lecture, paste them in. The sheet gets built to answer exactly those.
Audio
The lecture recording. One file. Up to 120MB.
Board photos
Pictures of the whiteboard. Up to 8 photos, 12MB each.
Extras (optional)
A handout, a syllabus page, a photo of the textbook diagram. Up to 6 files. These help the sheet use the right wording; the recording and the board stay the source.
Class calendar
Test and assessment dates for your class. Upload the syllabus once and the dates land here and on students' sheets page on their own. Check them against the real document; a wrong one is one edit away.
The syllabus does two jobs: the agent reads it for context when writing sheets, and the test dates in it go straight onto the calendar below.
Class agent
You facilitate this class, so its agent is yours to steer: the rules it writes sheets by, the style it has learned, and the reference files it reads for context. Changes reach the next sheet it makes.
Your class's lectures
Everything in your class, including lectures uploaded for you through the console. A finished sheet reaches students only once someone publishes it; nothing here goes out on its own.