Folders and study time

With five subjects and fifteen lectures each, a list sorted by date stops being any use for finding lecture 4 of Software Architecture. The home screen has folders, on the left, to keep it in order; and in Activity there is the week, which tells you how much you studied.

Folders

Each folder is a subject, almost always. They live in the sidebar on the left, open right there and show their documents. You create them with the plus, they come in ten colours so you can tell them apart, and you rename them with a right-click.

A document goes in one folder only. You put it there by dragging it, with Move to a folder, or when you bring in the file, which lets you pick the folder before starting. Anything not in a folder yet shows up under No folder, below the last one.

Opened recently does not change: it is still the list of the last five you opened, whatever folder they are in. Deleting a folder does not delete its documents, which stay put. And an empty folder does not delete itself, because you can create one before you have anything to put in it.

Search

Above Folders there is Search, which you can also open with ⌘K from anywhere in the app. It is a bar in the middle of the screen, like Spotlight, and it searches as you type through everything there is: the names of your documents and folders, what each slide says and what Mina explained about it, your notes, the chats and the summaries. Before you type anything it shows the last ones you opened.

Results come out grouped, always in the same order: Documents, Folders, In your presentations, Notes, Chats and Summaries. Each one says which document it belongs to, with the match highlighted, and opens exactly that: the slide, the note, the chat question or the summary topic, not just the document. Accents and capitals do not matter, and "archi" already finds "architecture".

Deleting documents

The trash next to the plus, in Folders, opens Delete documents: you pick one or several, grouped by folder, and confirm. They are deleted whole, with everything that was generated, the notes, the chats and the practice sessions, and it cannot be undone. What stays is the time you studied, which belongs to your days and not to the document.

The week

In Activity, below the title, there is the week from Monday to Sunday, with one plant per day. It grows with the time you studied that day: a sprout, a leafy plant and, from two hours up, a flower. A day with no study stays as bare soil. Hovering over a day shows how long you studied and what.

It only counts real study time: the time you spend inside a document, listening, practising, reviewing, in a note or in the chat, with the window in front and touched recently, or with the explanation playing. Having the home screen open does not count.

Your study time

Below the week, Your study time shows how much you studied this week, the daily average, how many days and the total; a calendar of the last six months with one square per day, like GitHub's, stronger the more you studied; the last twelve weeks, one bar per week; and what you studied, document by document. Opening a document from there and coming back takes you to your study time again, at the same spot.

If you leave halfway

If you switch to another app halfway through a document, after ten minutes a notification asks whether we keep studying. It shows up once for each time you leave, and not at all if the explanation is playing: listening with the window covered is studying too.