Docs
Guides for using Mento
Each article takes one job you're trying to do and walks it through. For quick single answers, the FAQ is faster — these are for when you want the whole picture.
Getting started
What to do first, and how to get your notes in without tidying them up.
Your first week with MentoThe practical short list for getting to know Mento — learn what a card is, explore the Learn Mento space, watch the tour, and put the app on your phone.VideoWhat's a card?Every note in Mento is a card — an idea, an optional answer, and whatever you attach — so anything you save can come back as a question.How Mento is organizedSpaces, topics, sections, and stacks — what each level is for, and how to lay out your own courses without overthinking the structure.Find anything with searchOne search across every space, topic, tag, and card — how to open it, what it looks through, and how to widen it when something seems missing.Set up a course in MentoCreate a space for a class — by hand or straight from your syllabus — with topics, sections, and an exam date, so everything you add later has a place.VideoMento on your phoneWhat the mobile app is for — capturing, voice, photos, and studying on the go — plus tabs and handwriting on a tablet.
Capturing notes
Getting things into Mento fast — quick capture, voice notes, and the Inbox.
Quick capture and the InboxHow to save a thought in seconds from anywhere in the app, and how the Inbox helps you make sense of it later.VideoTake notes with your voiceDictate instead of typing, or record voice memos that come back as tidy notes — with the transcript, and the audio if you want it.Add photos from your phoneThe whiteboard, the slide, the page of a book — snap it on your phone and it lands in your notes.Record your classesRecord a lecture so the audio lives with your notes, with a transcript and summary you can search, study, and turn into flashcards.
Taking notes
The note surfaces — sketches, the notebook, and reading PDFs.
Write and format notesThe rich-text editor inside every card — headings, lists, to-dos, tasks, code blocks, tables, and the slash menu that inserts all of it.Sketch in your notesDrop a quick drawing — a graph, an arrow, a structure — into any note, right where you're typing.The notebookFull handwritten pages — with an Apple Pencil on an iPad, an S Pen or stylus on an Android tablet, or your finger anywhere — living next to your typed notes.Read and study PDFsBring in slides and readings, highlight what matters, and turn the highlights into flashcards.
Studying
How spaced repetition, study sessions, and exam dates actually work.
How spaced repetition works in MentoWhy cards come back at odd times, why five minutes a day beats an hour of rereading, and what an exam date changes.VideoCreate flashcardsWrite cards yourself, or let AI draft them from your notes and files — you review everything before it sticks.VideoHow to study in MentoWhat the Study button actually does — daily practice, streaks, due reviews, the study modes, focusing on weak spots, and getting ready for an exam.TimelinesLay a sequence out visually — build a timeline by hand or let AI generate one from a prompt, then study the events like any other cards.Image mapsTurn a diagram into something you can study — label its parts with hotspots, by hand or with AI, and quiz yourself Anki-style with image occlusion.Video
Planning
Tasks, the daily note, and the calendar — the life layer around your notes.
Power tools
AI flows, tags, custom snippets, and the side pane — for when the basics feel small.
AI flowsReusable AI recipes that turn a PDF, a reading, or your notes into sections, timelines, and flashcards — run the built-ins or write your own.Tags in MentoOne label for a theme that runs through a whole course — tag notes as you type, browse everything that shares the label, and study it in one session.Custom snippetsYour favorite AI instructions, saved under a name — run them on a card's idea, answer, or notes with a couple of keystrokes.The side paneKeep a card, topic, tag, or notebook open beside what you're working on — a split view that follows you around the app.Tabs on iPad and tabletsBrowser-style tabs in the tablet app — keep your topic, notebook, and cards open at once and switch between them instantly.Keyboard shortcutsEvery Mento-specific shortcut in the web app, in one place — the same list you get by pressing ? inside Mento.Tips and tricksSmall moves that make Mento faster — gestures, shortcuts, and easy-to-miss features, collected in one place.
Sharing
Share a space, topic, or card with a link — and what people can do with what you share.
Plans & billing
What's free, what the paid plans add, and how payments, student pricing, and refunds work.
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