We’ve just shipped one of our biggest updates yet. Here’s what’s new in Memo:

🎙️ Introducing Track Mode + Live Professor - Duolingo For Any PDF

Meet your AI professor.

Track Mode is a brand new way to learn out loud — where your AI professor, guides you through your study materials like a real tutor.

• 🎯 Stay on track: Follow a structured learning flow that breaks down your PDF source into sections and lessons - exactly like a Duolingo track but personalized to you.

• 🧠 Teaches and flips pages: Your notes now come alive with real-time explanations, questions, and feedback. Your professor will even flip pages automatically during the lesson to guide the teaching flow.

• 🖼️ Diagram and image understanding: Your AI professor can now explain and teach from any visual on your PDF — including histology slides, anatomy diagrams, flowcharts, code snippets, labeled images, and tables.
  It will even point things out naturally, saying things like “this arrow here...” or “this red circle...”.

• 🗣️ Hands-free learning: Speak, listen, and study like you're in a one-on-one tutorial. Guided notes and summary notes is within the same interface for you to read along the lesson.

• ❓Practice Questions: After learning, go through 10-15 practice questions relevant to the lesson which includes multiple choice, short answer questions, fill in the blank and long answer questions to reinforce what you learnt.

🪄 Playground Mode – Fully Released

Our interactive study canvas just graduated from beta — and it’s now one of the most powerful ways to visualize, organize, and connect what you’re learning.

🧩 Link your knowledge

Move beyond linear studying. In Playground Mode, you can drag flashcards from any deck onto an infinite canvas, placing them side by side to reflect how ideas relate across topics, systems, and disciplines.
Draw arrows to represent causation, contrast, flow, or dependency — and build your own concept map, like a visual web of understanding.

This method mirrors how top students — especially in medicine, law, and engineering — mentally connect ideas during exams and essays. It’s about seeing the big picture, not just isolated facts.

🧠 Why it works

Research in cognitive psychology shows that organizing knowledge spatially (like in mind maps or concept maps) improves:

• Active recall (by embedding memory in structure)

• Transfer learning (applying ideas in new contexts)

• Long-term retention (by promoting meaningful associations)

This is how high performers turn notes into understanding — and now, you can do the same inside Memo.

🗃️ Playground Management

We’ve added a dedicated Playgrounds tab where you can now:

• Create and manage multiple playgrounds for different subjects, blocks, or exam periods

• Sort your canvases into folders for better organization

• Access your most recently opened playgrounds instantly from the top for seamless workflow

Whether you’re building a high-yield renal map or connecting pathology flashcards with treatment guidelines, each playground becomes a personal knowledge space.

✅ No more beta. Just better learning.

Playground Mode is now fully released and ready to support your deepest thinking and most complex topics.

⚙️ Enhancements

• The Flashcards Copilot now automatically recommends an optimal number of flashcards based on your selected PDF or topic.

• New deck creation interface: when viewing a new deck, there’s now a blurred preview state with clear options to either Deep Dive or manually create cards.

• We have added secondary backup providers to increased uptime. You can check out our status page at status.memo.cards.

• Improved manual card creation workflow

• Sidebar width has been shrunken a little bit to improve readability of main windows

• Added “view changelog” button back on sidebar to easily view recent changes like this

• Learn mode has increased in stability with secondary provider fallback
  

🐞 The Bugs We Squashed

• Fixed an issue where users could only input one letter at a time when editing flashcards.

• Resolved a bug that prevented deck renaming in the folder page pop-up dialog.