A lot of what you want to learn, someone else has already started organizing. RemNote Community brings that work together in one place: study materials shared publicly by other learners, plus a large collection already prepared by the RemNote team. You can find a topic, save the materials into your own notes, and start studying in a few minutes, without building everything from scratch first.
How to use Community
There are two main ways to use Community. You can join public courses shared by other learners from your school or university, and share your own notes to a course, where RemNote's AI Tutor turns them into ready-to-learn study materials. You can also browse the ready-made materials prepared by the RemNote team, organized by subject. This article walks through both.
Community is available to everyone. To open it, click the name of your knowledge base in the top left and select Community.
As soon as you open Community, you can search for whatever you want to study. Type a topic into the Learn Anything search at the top, and RemNote finds the relevant Study Guides, Study Decks, and public courses that other community members have created. Select any result to start learning.
Joining a public course
Community is organized by school. Each school has its own courses, and anyone can join a course to get the materials shared there or contribute their own notes for the whole course to study from.
Search for your school or university and open a course that interests you. Once you've joined, you can save its materials to your notes and study them right away. All the courses you've joined appear on the main Community page, and you can browse the other courses at your school to find more. You can belong to courses at more than one school, so there's no need to pick just one. If you want to leave a course later, click the three-dot button to its right and choose Leave Course.
When you save a document from a course, it appears in your sidebar inside a new folder, with the course name shown above it. This behaves just like any other folder, so you can rename or move it as you like. If you no longer want a saved document, for example because you've finished it or added it by mistake, open it again, click the Saved button, and choose Remove. This removes all of that document's notes from your knowledge base and resets the study progress you've made on them, so only remove a course when you're sure you're done with it.
Sharing your own notes with a course
If you've taken good notes on a topic, you can share them with a course so that you and everyone else in the course can study from them. When you do, RemNote runs its AI Tutor over your notes and generates flashcards, a quiz, and a set of key topics from them, all for free. If the document has enough content, RemNote also organizes it into a study plan with multiple sections so others can work through it in order.
To share a document:
Open the document in your knowledge base and click the share button in the top right.
Choose to share it to a course.
Select the course you want. You can pick an existing course or create a new one for your school.
After a minute or two, depending on the size of the document, it becomes searchable in Community, and the generated materials are available to you and to anyone who joins the course. Your notes are shared read-only, the same way they are in groups, so you don't need to worry about anyone editing the original notes in your knowledge base. Others can still open the original document by clicking the View Notes button.
You can share the course link with friends so they can study from the same materials, join the course themselves if they'd like, and share their own notes with others.
If you want more control over who can access the notes you share, consider using groups, which are designed for active exchange of study materials with a group of people you know. Read more in the Groups article.
Updating or removing what you've shared
If you edit the original document in your knowledge base after sharing it, you can reshare it. To do it, click the Reshare button in the top right and select Republish to course. The version in the course is replaced with your updated one, and AI Tutor regenerates all of the learning materials from the new version.
To stop sharing a document, open the same Reshare menu and select Unshare the document.
Reporting low-quality materials
Since all of the courses are shared by others from the Community, you may run into low-quality notes that, for example, don't belong to this course's topic. You can report such documents to the RemNote team, and our moderators will review them. Thank you for helping us keep the Community a place where anyone can find high-quality flashcards and learning materials on any topic.
Browsing by subject
Below the public courses on the main Community page, everything else is grouped into subjects, ranging from literature and languages to math, business, social science, and medicine. Each subject is broken into sub-subjects, so Math contains Algebra and Geometry, Social Science contains Psychology and Economics, and so on.
Drilling into a sub-subject shows the concepts covered there, each with materials prepared by the RemNote team. Suppose you open Social Science, then Psychology, and choose Abraham Maslow. You'll find two kinds of materials:
Study Guides and Study Decks
Study Guides are short documents that act as a plan for learning a topic.
A guide lays out the core concepts you need to understand the basics, the must-remember points, and the comparisons, mental models, and other core ideas that make the topic click.
Because it also names the things worth knowing, you can use a guide to build a study plan at the start and to check your own understanding once you've finished.
Study Decks are ready-made collections of a summary, flashcards, and a quiz on a topic.
The summary covers the whole topic, the flashcards let you commit it to memory, and the quiz checks how well it stuck. Some topics are covered by several Study Decks, arranged in a recommended order. If you're new to the topic, start with the one at the top, marked Recommended. Once you finish it, move on to the next to explore the topic further.
When you open a Study Deck, clicking Speed Learn walks you through the learning materials in the order that helps things stick: first the summary, then practice flashcards to help you remember what you just read, and finally a quiz that tests how well you actually understood it. The summaries, flashcards, and quizzes in Community are generated by RemNote's AI Tutor.
Saving materials to your notes
Any materials in Community can be saved into your own knowledge base, so you can find them easily and practice their cards with spaced repetition. By default, saved Study Guides and Study Decks are added to the Saved Study Decks folder in your sidebar, which behaves just like any other folder. If you save a study guide, you can also edit it directly in your notes: you might save the guide on Abraham Maslow and add your own notes under each bullet as you learn more about his life and work in human psychology.
Removing a saved Study Guide or Study Deck works the same way as removing a course: open it, click the checkbox icon, and choose Remove. This takes its notes out of your knowledge base and resets your study progress on them.