Study with AI without outsourcing: turn a long chat into a review sheet

A study chat is a good tutor and a bad set of notes

Academica Group’s survey of Canadian post-secondary students, published on May 8, 2026, describes learning uses such as clarifying concepts and generating explanations. That is a reason to check the explanations you keep, rather than treating an AI answer as your final notes.

That use leaves a trail. A study chat is full of good explanations, but they're spread across questions, rewordings, side tangents and the "wait, I still don't get it" moments. Scrolling back through it the night before an exam is slow, and the best explanation is often buried in the middle.

What a good review sheet keeps

Not a transcript. A review sheet keeps:

• The topic, in a line: which course, which chapter.
• The key ideas, in the order they build on each other.
• The definitions and formulas you'll need, in the version that finally made sense to you.
• One example per idea, the one that clicked.
• What's still unclear: the questions to bring to class, your TA or your notes.

It leaves out the rest: the false starts, the explanations you didn't follow, the same question asked three ways.

Make it yourself

1. Write the topic at the top, in one line.
2. Go down the chat and note each idea where it finally clicked.
3. Copy the definitions in the wording that worked for you.
4. Add one example per idea.
5. List what's still unclear.

Doing it by hand is studying in itself. On a very long chat, it's also slow.

Check it against your course.

An AI can explain something clearly and still get a detail wrong. Check your review sheet against your lecture notes, your textbook or what your instructor said. Where they differ, the course wins.

The faster way: Summarize, in Uncook

Uncook's Summarize does the first pass in a click. On the ChatGPT page, click the Uncook icon and pick Summarize. You get the topic, what's settled and what's still open, without the back-and-forth.

You can adjust it: another language, another tone, or written for someone else, for example "for me, reviewing the night before the exam". Each adjustment runs Summarize again, and counts as a task. Then copy it, or export it as PDF, Markdown or text.

Studied one subject over several chats? Select them together and get one summary of all of them. It counts as a task.

It works the same way for chats in Claude, Gemini, Perplexity, Mistral Vibe (ex-Le Chat), Gemini Notebook and Google AI Studio.

Learn from it, don't just keep it

A review sheet only helps if you work with it:

• Cover it and recall. Read a heading, close the sheet, and explain the idea out loud.
• Write your own questions from it, and answer them a day later.
• Fill the gaps yourself. Take what's still unclear to class or to your notes.

The summary saves you the scrolling. The learning is still yours to do. And the sheet is for reviewing before the exam, never for use during one.

Questions people ask

Is using a summary of my AI chat allowed? It depends on your course. The rules on AI differ from one course to the next. If you're not sure, ask your instructor.

Can I get the review sheet in French? Yes. Use Adjust to set the language, whatever language the chat was in. Each adjustment counts as a task.

Can I make one sheet from several study chats? Yes. Select the chats together and Summarize makes one summary of all of them, as a task. For a prompt to keep studying in a single chat instead, see how to merge your study chats.