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The knowledge layer of your academy.
Multiplayer. Embeds everything. Public when you want.

Write study guides, course handbooks, cohort wikis and a public knowledge hub — all in one editor. Drop in live embeds of your lessons, recordings, whiteboards and quizzes. Built on BlockNote and Liveblocks so multi-cursor editing feels exactly like the tools your team already knows.

The editor your students already know

Slash commands for everything. Drag-to-rearrange. Markdown-in if you like markdown, rich toolbar if you don’t. Powered by BlockNote — the open-source editor that powers Notion-style tools — and Liveblocks for multi-cursor editing.
  • Slash menu with every block type, including our 5 typed embeds
  • Multiplayer cursors, presence avatars, conflict-free Yjs persistence
  • Same keyboard shortcuts as Notion / Coda / Craft — no relearning
  • Drafts auto-save 300ms after the last keystroke
docs/your-first-doc
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Calculus 1 · Week 3 — Derivatives

A pinch-of-salt take on the chain rule, with worked examples and the Tuesday recording.

Recording · 12:34

Week 3 live class — Derivatives crash

Whiteboard

Chain rule worked-example board

Quiz · 8 questions

Derivatives mini-quiz

Five typed embeds. Live references, not snapshots.

The thing that breaks every other docs tool: you paste a link to a recording, the recording moves, the link rots. Here, every embed is a typed reference by id. The artifact moves, the embed follows. The artifact gets updated (new chapters, more quiz questions, a re-saved whiteboard) — every doc referencing it shows the latest.
  • Lesson: Embed any lesson from any course
  • Recording: Embed a recording, optionally timestamped
  • Whiteboard: Embed a whiteboard preview
  • Quiz: Reference a quiz from your bank
  • Doc: Cross-link to another doc
slash menu — embeds
  • /lessonEmbed any lesson from any course
  • /recordingEmbed a recording, optionally timestamped
  • /whiteboardEmbed a whiteboard preview
  • /quizReference a quiz from your bank
  • /docCross-link to another doc

One audience model. Same one you already learned.

Private · admins · workspace · cohort · course · public on the web — exactly the audience model you set for lessons and announcements. Nothing new to learn. A doc shared to a cohort is visible to that cohort the moment they sign in.
  • Private — only you
  • Admins & instructors — internal SOPs and runbooks
  • Everyone in workspace — staff-wide announcements
  • Specific cohort — week-by-week course pages
  • Specific course — full handbook
  • Public on the web — SEO-indexed knowledge hub with custom slug + OG tags
publish dialog
🔒PrivateOnly you can see this
🛡Admins + instructorsWorkspace operations
🏢Everyone in workspaceAll staff
👥CommunityA single cohort
🎓CourseEveryone enrolled
🌐Public on the webCustom slug · SEO · OG image

AI study guide from any class — one click

After a live class ends, the End-of-Class wizard offers “Generate study guide.” The AI pulls the transcript, the whiteboard snapshots and the chat’s pinned questions, and drafts a doc with sections, embedded recording timestamps and a follow-up quiz block. You proof-read for ten minutes and ship.
  • Pulls transcript + whiteboard + pinned chat
  • Drafts sections in your tone, not generic outline
  • Embeds the recording at the right moments automatically
  • Suggests a 5-question quiz at the end — accept or skip
end-of-class wizard

Generate study guide?

Class ended 4 minutes ago. We have the transcript, three whiteboards and 12 pinned questions.

Title

Week 3 — Derivatives crash

Audience

Calc-1 Cohort B

Backlinks, automatically

Every embed writes a row in a global reference table — “this doc embeds this lesson”. The reverse query is free: a recording’s sidebar shows every doc that references it, with authors and updated-on dates. No tags to maintain. No manual cross-links. Just edges, both ways.
  • Embed once → backlink appears on the artifact automatically
  • Mentions count too — @lesson in any doc shows up on the lesson
  • AI-generated study guides record their source class as a backlink — 'generated from'
  • Soft-deletes show '⚠ referenced from this doc' so cleanup is intentional
recording → backlinks

Referenced from

  • 📝Week 3 — Derivatives crashAsha Iyer · 2d ago
  • 📘Calculus 1 — Course handbookAsha Iyer · 6d ago
  • 🏛Public · How we teach calculusAsha Iyer · 11d ago

Templates for what teachers actually write

Eight scaffolds at /dashboard/docs. Real docs, not lorem ipsum. Pick one, swap your words in, publish.

Teaching scaffolds

The four docs that pay back the first week — write once, reuse forever.

  • Course handbook

    Syllabus, schedule, FAQ, rubrics — the doc you wish you'd written

  • Lesson study guide

    Notes + recording + worked examples, one page per lesson

  • Cohort wiki

    Shared notes for a single batch — students contribute too

  • Public knowledge hub

    SEO-indexed pages for the topics you want to rank for

Operations

Internal docs the team keeps; visible to admins + instructors only.

  • Onboarding playbook

    Day-1 / Week-1 / Month-1 for new students or staff

  • SOP

    How we run live classes, grade submissions, refund cancellations

  • Meeting notes

    Decision · owner · date — copy-pasted into the right doc later

  • Blank doc

    Empty page. Slash command for everything else.

Your public knowledge hub — on your URL

Any doc you publish public lives at yourdomain.com/k/your-slug with full SEO control — title, description, OG image, noindex flag. Tags become hub categories. The hub itself is a free traffic source for your academy — on your domain, in your brand.

  • Custom slug per page
  • OG title + description + image
  • Auto-indexed hub at yourdomain.com/k
  • Comment-only mode for cohort wikis

Why not just Notion (or Google Docs, or your own wiki)?

Because none of them know your courses. Here are the honest trade-offs.

Notion

Beautiful editor, no LMS underneath. You pay for two tools and reconcile permissions between them.

Google Docs

Multiplayer + comments are great. No embeds of your courses, no audience model that knows about cohorts.

Wiki.js / BookStack

Self-host, theme it, build the cohort auth yourself. Year-one cost dwarfs the SaaS bill.

Old block editor we replaced

Worked. Wasn't pleasant. We rebuilt on BlockNote + Liveblocks so the writing experience would feel familiar from day one.

Solo creators

One handbook, one study guide per lesson, one public page per topic. Done in week 1.

Coaching academies

SOPs for staff, cohort wikis for students, course handbooks per batch. All audiences in one tool.

Schools & colleges

Department-level spaces, public landing pages for admissions, internal-only runbooks. RBAC built in.

Free to start

Stop pasting links between Notion and your LMS

One editor. Live embeds of everything you already have. Audience model you already know. Free to start, no demo call.