Shelf Blog
Feature deep-dives and workflows for students, professionals, researchers, and lifelong learners — PDF libraries, highlights, Study AI, planner, and more.
Keyboard search opens pages instantly. When you only remember a concept, library-wide Study AI retrieves across collections you authorize.
Serious readers use Shelf as a personal book notes vault: one collection for reading life, chapter PDFs, argument highlights, and AI summaries you can revisit years later.
Collections per language, topics per skill, vocabulary highlights, and AI explanations grounded in your textbook pages — Shelf for language study beyond flashcard apps.
Pins keep this week’s work visible. Continue reading resumes the last page you touched. Together they remove friction between sessions.
Toggle dark mode, hide chrome you do not need, install the PWA, and keep Study AI one shortcut away — a focus setup for serious reading sessions.
Generic chatbots guess from the open web. Shelf Study AI answers from your library with retrieval and citations back to your pages — better for exam and work accuracy.
Your /my-content library is private to your account. Learn how uploads are stored, how Study AI uses your files, and how to stay safe on shared computers.
Collections per class or subject, topics per unit, annotated handouts, and planner events for class sessions — Shelf as a quiet prep library for teachers and tutors.
Collections per client or domain, highlights for decisions and TODOs, Study AI for long RFCs, and planner blocks for deep reading — Shelf as a professional document workspace.
One collection per project, papers as pages, color highlights for methods vs claims, and AI chat scoped to your corpus — a researcher-friendly Shelf workflow.
From NEET PG notes to research protocols: collections by subject, diagram-friendly original PDF view, and Study AI prompts that respect what you uploaded.
Shelf installs like an app on desktop and mobile — useful for revisiting cached library structure and reading streak data when connectivity drops.
Collections for subjects, topics for doctrines, color-coded highlights for facts vs holdings, and Study AI prompts that stay grounded in the judgments you uploaded.
One collection per course, topics per week or unit, highlights during class review, and Study AI for exam-week synthesis — a Shelf workflow built for campus life.
Stop dumping PDFs into Downloads. Learn when to upload at library root, collection level, or inside a topic — and how Shelf keeps links stable when you rename.
Paste a Spotify link into the reader dock for official embed playback while you highlight and scroll. Per-collection focus playlists optional.
New to Shelf? This walkthrough covers account setup, your first uploads, library structure, reading with highlights, asking Study AI, and planning tasks without overwhelm.
Press ⌘K or / to search your library, g then d for dashboard, ⌘L to ask Study AI on a selection — shortcuts never fire while you type in inputs.
Shelf saves PDF page, scroll, and zoom to your account so phone, tablet, and laptop pick up the same document where you stopped.
One study goal setting steers prompts across reader Ask AI and full Study AI chat so answers match the exam you are actually preparing for.
Free Shelf is fully usable at 250 MB and 50k AI tokens monthly. Premium expands limits for heavy PDF libraries and daily Study AI workflows.
Shelf Learn is the public curriculum catalog. Use it for baseline reading; sign in to build a private library with your own PDFs, highlights, and Study AI.
Beyond PDF uploads: draw on A4 sheets, type structured notes, or import existing documents — all live beside PDFs in your collections.
Open several PDFs at once, compare sources in a two-pane split, hide panels for focus, and restore tabs plus scroll position when you return.
The dashboard greets you, shows continue reading, next planner items, recent collections, and eight achievement tiles — without overwhelming empty states.
Create tasks that open your PDFs, schedule events with external links, drag items between days, and never lose overdue work in the To plan column.
Ask Study AI to summarize a page, extract revision bullets, or render a mind map. Outputs are structured Markdown you can read, copy, or save.
The /study-ai workspace is multi-turn chat with RAG over your uploads. Filter scope to a notebook, topic, or page, and optionally inject relevancy documents.
Highlight a paragraph or open Ask AI on the whole page. Answers cite your material and save as threads you can continue in the full Study AI workspace.
Shelf treats every uploaded PDF as a first-class document: color highlights, pen markup, text selection, and notes that stay attached to the page.
Shelf is built around your material: collections act like notebooks, topics group related pages, and root-level pages sit beside collections for quick access.
Browse free curriculum or sign in to build your own library.