An AI tutor you can interrupt mid-lesson

You're halfway through an explanation and one sentence makes no sense. In a book you'd underline it and hope the next paragraph helps. In Learnfold you select that sentence and ask about it, right there on the page. The discussion is saved, so it's still there when you come back.

Ask about the exact passage

Every lesson in Learnfold is a short page. You can select a passage and ask Why, How, or for an example about just that part. When your question doesn't fit one of those three, type it in your own words about the whole page, or use the own-question door in "Where next?" at the bottom.

Say you're reading a page on how GPS works and one line mentions something you've never heard of. Select that line and ask Why, or ask for an example. Because you're asking about that passage, you don't have to describe your confusion from scratch. If what you want is narrower, like whether it works indoors, type that question on the page.

Some answers stay in the chat. Some become pages of their own, which is handy when your small question turns out to be a big one.

Come back to a discussion later

Discussions are saved and can be reopened. Sometimes a question only makes sense to finish a day later, once you've read the rest of the lesson. You reopen the discussion and carry on.

The course map also lists open threads, which are questions you haven't finished. If you asked something and wandered off, it shows up there instead of quietly vanishing.

Checks that talk back

At the end of a page you can take an optional check. It can be multiple choice, a written answer in your own words, or a guided discussion.

Each gives feedback on what you got right. When you get something wrong, the wrong answer can become a conversation. Instead of stopping at the correct letter, you can talk through why your answer was wrong. Practice pages help you revisit lessons after missed answers.

If you want to get more out of asking, the guide on writing better questions for an AI tutor covers it.

When the tutor is wrong

Learnfold uses AI to write explanations, and AI makes mistakes. That includes the lessons, the answers in a discussion and the feedback on a check. Treat it as a tutor, not a textbook.

A few habits help.

• Ask for an example. A vague explanation often becomes visibly wrong, or visibly right, once it has to deal with a specific case.
• Check the important bits elsewhere. Anything you will rely on for a decision, an exam or a conversation with a professional deserves a reliable source. The guide on checking AI explanations for mistakes walks through how.
• Fix the page. You can edit any page yourself, or ask the AI to rewrite a section. If you found the error, the page doesn't have to keep it.

How it fits the rest of the course

The tutor sits inside a course, which is why its answers have something to refer to. A course starts from a question, a web link, a PDF, notes, Markdown or a photo. You approve a plan, lessons are written section by section, and every lesson ends with "Where next?" so you can go deeper, sideways, zoom out or ask your own question. If you're used to asking a general chatbot, Learnfold vs ChatGPT for learning compares the two approaches.

When you return, Continue drops you on the exact page and spot where you left off, and your saved discussions are where you left them. If you're starting with a subject you know nothing about, learning a topic from scratch walks through the first ten minutes.

Before you rely on it

• Each question is a request to the AI you chose. With Learnfold Cloud, Learnfold's own AI service, that means a Cloud or Studio plan, with daily usage limits. With Plus you bring your own provider, such as Codex with your own OpenAI API key, which that provider charges for separately. Plans are at learnfold.app/#pricing.
• Your questions leave the phone. Learnfold Cloud sends your prompts and sources to Learnfold's cloud service and an AI model provider. See the privacy policy. Codex sends them to OpenAI or the compatible service you connect, and Hermes to whichever model it runs, so check that provider's terms.

If you want a human tutor

If you need a human tutor who knows you, marks your work against a curriculum and signs off on it, this isn't that. It's for the reader who wants to stop and ask, as often as they like, without feeling they're holding up the class.