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  1. Keep the answers that matter

    Save a tutor answer, or clear the chat and start fresh.

    • Under a tutor answer, press Save. It goes under Highlights with the question you asked, and the tutor keeps it in mind for the rest of the session.
    • Clear chat, at the top of the tutor, starts the conversation over. The tutor no longer sees what you talked about, except the answers you saved.
    • Clearing the chat deletes its words, not your study days: they stay on your streak.
    • Saved answers are in the session's Markdown export and in Copy highlights.
    • The box you write to the tutor in is a clear pill now, with a lit edge and the send button inside it. It floats over the end of the chat, which fades out above it, and grows as you type.
    • With the tutor across the whole screen, answers get a wider column, and tables fit it instead of sliding sideways.
    • Tables wrap long cells instead of stretching across the panel. A small table fits beside the page; a big one still slides, but much less.
    • A formula on its own line is drawn as a proper display equation, with sums and limits full size, instead of squeezed into a line of text.
    • A formula with #, %, _ or & in its words (like “#filters” or “95%”) shows properly instead of a ParseError, and a % no longer cuts off the rest of the formula.

  2. Cite the files you mean

    The tutor can use more than the file you have open.

    • Under the tutor, open Cite and tick the files an answer may cite. The one you have open starts on. Add the others the question needs, or all of them.
    • An answer can cite each of those files. A citation still opens that page.
    • A citation opens the page where the answer is written. A page that only asks the question is not the one that gets cited.
    • If an answer can't cite a page, you still get the answer, with one note that it isn't cited. When only part of it is, those paragraphs get a † and the note explains it once. Diagrams stay where the tutor put them.
    • Diagrams are laid out for the tutor now. It says what connects to what, and the boxes are sized to their labels, with arrows that go around them instead of through them. A long chain is drawn top to bottom so it fits beside the page. Click a diagram to see it larger.
    • A diagram the tutor draws by hand keeps its colours. Boxes were coming out solid black, with labels too big for them.
    • In full screen, the tutor can take the whole screen: press the expand button in its header, or e. It widens over the page and shrinks back the same way. A citation, a tool, Esc or Back to the page brings the page back.
    • Drag a file's tab and the others slide aside, like browser tabs. The order stays on this device for this session. D1 and D2 stay with their files, so an older citation still opens the right one.
    • Under a tutor answer, copy it or mark it up or down. Add a correction and a comment. Those stay with the person building Confu. They are not sold, and they are not used to train a model.
    • An exam table stays a table, and a formula stays on one line. The markup behind them no longer shows up on the page.

  3. A better dark mode, and everything where you'd look for it

    Glossy and solid in the dark, and a cleaner layout everywhere.

    • Dark mode is back to its warm charcoal, now with a gloss, and solid: cards, menus, dialogs and panels no longer let the page show through them.
    • Big cards like Continue, reviews due and a room's running timer are lit, raised charcoal panels in the dark instead of bright white blocks. Dialogs dim the page instead of washing it out.
    • Your library opens on where you left off, with what's due and your streak beside it, and your files right on the card.
    • The header's places (Library, Review, Threads, Rooms, Friends) sit next to the logo and show where you are. In a session they become icons, so the title has room.
    • Moving between places no longer flickers the header: it stays put, and the highlight slides to where you're going.
    • In the dark, PDF pages are dimmed a touch so they don't glare, and selected tabs and options are a calm raised grey instead of bright white.
    • Notifications and confirmations slide in at the bottom right, clear of each page's own buttons. Maths in them reads as text, not code.

  4. Every subject has a space

    Threads organised by subject, answers you can trust, rooms that feel alive, and voice that stays with you.

    • The bell sits at the right of the bar, next to your account, instead of in among the links.
    • Dark mode is glossy glass: a lit background, frosted bars, and soft edges instead of flat black frames.
    • Draw a diagram. The tutor can answer with a picture, and it shows up in the chat as an image.
    • Wide tables slide sideways, the way long equations do, instead of squeezing every column.
    • Fold the tutor and only the logo stays, a thin strip down the side.
    • Leave voice is immediate. The person who left disappears, instead of sitting on Connecting.
    • Share your screen in a private room. It's live between the browsers, with no camera, and Confu doesn't record it.
    • Closing the tab takes you out of the study room.
    • 33 subject spaces, from Mathematics and Physics to Law, Medicine and exam prep. Follow the ones you study; asking in one follows it for you.
    • Threads: search, and sort by active, new, top or unanswered. Vote up the replies that helped, and the person who asked can mark the one that answered it.
    • Write questions and replies in Markdown, with maths: $x^2$ and $$…$$ render properly, and there's a preview before you post. Edit your own posts any time.
    • Study rooms have a new look: a timer ring that fills as the block goes by, and everyone in the room at a glance.
    • Voice stays with you: go to your library or a session and you're still in, with mute and leave in the header. Reload the page and you're back in, with the same mute.
    • Voice reconnects more reliably after a reload or a dropped connection, and retries by itself when a connection stalls.
    • Door cards are now reading lists: paste links, share or print the list, and anyone can start a session from it in one click.
    • Friend requests, room invites and replies show up on the right as they happen, and stay in the bell until you've seen them.
    • A reply that states something wrong gets a labelled correction. The original is one click away, and the author is told.

  5. The section, the week of the paper

    One paper for the section, a miss map with no names, and a tutor that has to cite a page.

    • Course-link requests are requests, not people. The share panel says so for the last two weeks.
    • Gauss's law, electric potential, and capacitance, from OpenStax University Physics Volume 2 (CC BY 4.0). Copying one starts an exam session.
    • The rep writes up to eight lines and makes one multiple-choice paper. Classmates sit it without the key, and without spending a prompt. Handing in stays private. Sharing a card is still a choice.
    • A library hour is one calendar event: a place, a time, and a topic. No list of who came.
    • A miss map says what the section missed, once eight people who share progress have handed in. No names and no scores.
    • Print a one-page crib: objectives, concepts, and page numbers. Not the paper.
    • A door card is a reading list. Copying it starts a session. Confu doesn't fetch NCERT textbooks.
    • In a paper session, the tutor has to cite a page or it stays quiet.
    • In the two weeks before an exam, the tutor starts folded. Three to four weeks out, a trial account is pointed at the free Groq key.
    • A gap from explaining a page comes back in review. After the paper, the reminder says the misses return today, in three days, and in seven.
    • After the paper, a section page shows counts only. Copied N times means copies, not people.

  6. The week before the exam

    A course link, a timed paper, one page to print, and a check that you can explain the page.

    • Share a short course link. Classmates can read the plan before they have an account. An account starts when they copy it, highlight, or ask. Once 30 classmates copy a class pack, you get Pro for the term, once.
    • Sit a timed paper: 10 questions, 15 minutes. Marks stay hidden until you hand it in. The share card shows the score, the minutes, and what you missed. Not the questions.
    • One page from a topic: the objectives, the ideas, and a few lines from the reading. Print it. It doesn't call the tutor. Anki export is still where it was, in Highlights.
    • Electric charges and fields, from OpenStax University Physics Volume 2 (CC BY 4.0). Copying it starts an exam session.
    • Pin a passage on the page. The answer is written once, from that page. Classmates see it only when you both share class progress. Chats stay yours.
    • Explain the page back in 45 seconds. Confu keeps the score and the gap. The words and the audio are thrown away.
    • A reminder opens the session on that page, with the tutor folded for the visit.
    • Snap the board from your phone. The photo becomes a page in the session and is read like a scan.

  7. Threads, spaces, and roadmaps

    Ask a question in public, keep a group's questions private, or share a session as a path.

    • Threads: post a question about anything you're studying. Anyone signed in can reply. It isn't the tutor inside a session.
    • Learning spaces: a private link for your group. People who join can ask questions there. No timer and no voice. Those stay in study rooms.
    • Share a session as a roadmap. It's the same share as a study pack, with the plan shown as a path others can follow and copy.
    • Capturing a figure near the bottom of the page keeps the question box on screen.

  8. Friends, and voice in private rooms

    Study with people you know, and talk in a private room when you want to.

    • Friends: add someone with their friend code or the email on their account. See when they're online, in a room, or in voice.
    • Invite a friend into a private room from the room. They get a join card on their Friends page.
    • Voice in private rooms: join, mute, or deafen. A ring shows who's talking. No camera, and nothing is recorded. Public rooms stay quiet.
    • Up to 8 people can be in voice at once. Some school networks block it; a home network usually works.

  9. Room to read

    The tutor beside you, your tools a click away, and the page in the middle.

    • The tutor now sits on the left, in full screen too, so it's always in the same place.
    • Plan, Highlights, Progress and Files live in a rail on the right. Press one and it slides out over the page; click back into the page (or press Esc) and it slides away. Pin it to keep it open beside the page.
    • A tool you put away keeps its place: a half-written answer or a scrolled list is still there when it comes back.
    • Fold the tutor away (or press t) to read wider. It comes back on its own when it answers.
    • Full screen keeps the same layout, just without the header, and dialogs now show in full screen too.
    • On phones, a tab bar at the bottom switches between reading, the tutor and each tool.

  10. Everything in view

    Your plan, what you're reading and the tutor, side by side.

    • The workspace now has three parts: your plan, papers, files and notes on the left, what you're reading in the middle, the tutor on the right. No more switching tabs to ask a question.
    • Resize either side by dragging its edge, or fold it away to read wider. It comes back when you need it, like when the tutor replies.
    • The reader's toolbar is grouped by job, with labels: find your way, read, capture a figure, focus. When the reader is narrow, the rest is under More.

  11. Lock it in, listen ahead, take it with you

    Recall checks, audio overviews, playlists, exports and dark mode.

    • Quick recall check: mark a topic done and answer three questions from memory. What you miss comes back in review.
    • Listen (2 min): a spoken preview of any topic, what it's about and what to watch for, before you read it.
    • Import a whole YouTube playlist: pick the lectures and they come in one by one, each with its own progress.
    • Export a session as Markdown (for Obsidian, Notion or any editor), or your review cards for Anki.
    • Dark mode: Auto, Light or Dark under Appearance in your account menu.
    • Behind schedule? Re-pace from today with one tap, and spin the Custom pace dial to fit your week.
    • Watch your plan take shape: topics appear as they're written.
    • Files shows what's coming in, with Retry if something fails, and what your goal names that isn't added yet.
    • Open your goal prompt straight in ChatGPT or Claude. Keyboard shortcuts in the workspace: press ?.

  12. Your whole literature, connected

    One map of every paper you've read, and a plan that starts while your PDFs upload.

    • Your literature map: every paper across your sessions, the foundations they share and the newer work citing them. Pick a session to see its part, and spot the papers that connect your projects.
    • Write your goal while your PDFs upload: the plan waits for them, then builds itself.
    • Goals now start from a template with a Materials section, and Confu checks it as you paste: paper DOIs, YouTube links, and anything missing.
    • Your goal draft is saved as you type, so leaving the page doesn't lose it.

  13. Pro, study packs, literature maps and study rooms

    The biggest update yet: share what worked, see how papers connect, and study alongside others.

    • Pro: ₹299 a month in India, $6 elsewhere, cancel anytime. Checkout opens soon; until then, request Pro from Settings → Plan.
    • Invite friends: they get a week of Pro when they join, and you get a week once they've studied.
    • Study packs: share a session's sources, plan and highlights as a page others can copy. Class mode lets students choose to share their progress with you.
    • Goal templates: eleven ready-made goals with free lectures, readings and papers, from neural networks to quantum computing.
    • Literature map: see how a session's papers cite each other, the foundations they share and newer work that builds on them.
    • New papers citing what you read now appear in your weekly email.
    • Papers: export BibTeX, send your pass notes to Zotero, draft a related-work section from your notes, and compare papers side by side.
    • Study rooms: a shared focus timer and a few people quietly working alongside you.
    • Study time in your calendar: pick a daily time, and your calendar feed blocks it out with the topic that's next.
    • Wrapped: your month of studying in numbers, with a page you can share.

  14. Papers inside study sessions

    Mix textbooks and research papers in one session, and read the papers like a researcher.

    • Confu spots which PDFs are research papers (with Semantic Scholar and OpenAlex) and gives them the three-pass tools.
    • Name papers in your goal and Confu offers to add them, with their open-access PDFs.
    • PowerPoint and Word files are turned into PDFs through your Google Drive when you upload them.
    • Archive sessions you've finished instead of deleting them, so your streak keeps their days.

  15. Import anything, and a better reading room

    Bring in the web, lectures and your libraries, and stay focused while you read.

    • Import web pages, YouTube lectures (from their transcripts), Google Drive and Zotero.
    • Sites that block automated reading can be pasted in instead.
    • Reader: search, contents, light, sepia and night themes, a reading map, read aloud, a focus timer and white, pink and brown noise.
    • Streaks and a study heatmap, review reminders, a weekly summary email, notifications and a calendar feed of your plan.
    • Install Confu as an app on your computer or phone.

  16. Start here, and spaced review

    Know what to do first, and remember what you finished.

    • A Start here card for every plan, and goal starters built from your PDFs' chapters.
    • Spaced review: finished topics, passages you asked about and practice questions you missed come back just before you'd forget them.
    • In full screen, the tutor sits beside your PDF.

  17. Confu launches

    An AI tutor that works from your own material.

    • Study toward a goal with a phased plan, prepare for exams with practice questions from your notes, or read papers with the three-pass method.
    • Highlight any passage to ask about it; drag over a figure or equation to have it read and explained.
    • Answers cite the page they came from.