{
 "schema": "aiblocks-page/1",
 "id": "study-notebook-review",
 "type": "skill",
 "name": "Study notebook reviewer",
 "summary": "Run a study notebook review: recall each old topic first, get honest feedback, and see new review dates for every lesson note that is due.",
 "headline": "Study notebook reviewer",
 "subhead": "Give it the lesson notes and review dates from your study notebook. It asks what you recall before showing the notes, then checks the gaps. You get feedback, fresh review dates and a mixed quiz across the topics you revisited.",
 "job": {
  "id": "study-and-practice",
  "name": "Study and check your understanding"
 },
 "level": "beginner",
 "thinking": "medium",
 "tested": true,
 "updated": "2026-11-03",
 "first_published": "2026-10-25",
 "inputs": [
  {
   "type": "document",
   "required": true,
   "label": "Document",
   "what": "a finished document, such as a Word file, a PDF or a page of notes"
  }
 ],
 "outputs": [
  {
   "type": "document",
   "required": true,
   "label": "Document",
   "what": "a finished document, such as a Word file, a PDF or a page of notes"
  },
  {
   "type": "plan",
   "required": true,
   "label": "Plan",
   "what": "a dated plan: what to do, in what order, with a decision rule for each step"
  },
  {
   "type": "feedback_notes",
   "required": true,
   "label": "Feedback notes",
   "what": "a person's notes on an output: what to keep, change or drop"
  }
 ],
 "you_give": [
  "Lesson notes with a review block (interval, due date and key takeaways).",
  "Your study notebook dashboard with its Up for review list.",
  "Your recall answers, typed or spoken, for each topic.",
  "An AI that can read and write files in your notes folder or Obsidian vault."
 ],
 "you_get": [
  "Recall feedback for each reviewed topic.",
  "Updated note review dates.",
  "A mixed quiz and an updated session log."
 ],
 "use_when": [],
 "skip_when": [
  "You have a brand-new topic and no lesson notes yet: build the lessons first with the Personal study planner, then come back here.",
  "You want a quick one-off quiz on a topic: ask your AI for a short quiz and skip the notebook.",
  "Your notes have no review dates and no dashboard: set those up first, or this skill has no queue to read."
 ],
 "output_sample": {
  "input": [
   "Your lesson notes, each with a review block (interval, ease, due date)",
   "Your dashboard with an Up for review list",
   "Your spoken or typed recall of each topic, from memory",
   "Your review settings (optional)"
  ],
  "prerequisites": [
   "An AI that can read and write files in your notes folder (an Obsidian vault)",
   "Lesson notes made with the agent-tutor skill"
  ],
  "output": [
   {
    "name": "Recall check",
    "contains": "One prompt per due topic asking you to explain it from memory before any notes are shown."
   },
   {
    "name": "Retention verdict",
    "contains": "A plain call for each topic: solid, shaky but recoverable, or gone, judged against the note's key takeaways."
   },
   {
    "name": "Updated review block",
    "contains": "New interval, ease and due date written into each note's review frontmatter."
   },
   {
    "name": "Mixed mini-quiz",
    "contains": "5 to 8 questions across all topics reviewed today, scored against a 70% pass mark."
   },
   {
    "name": "Dashboard review queue",
    "contains": "The Up for review list, current and sorted by due date, with finished notes removed."
   },
   {
    "name": "Session log entry",
    "contains": "A review entry in the day's log file with a retention verdict for each topic."
   }
  ]
 },
 "how_to_use": [
  "Open your AI in a tool that can read and write files in your notes folder. Paste in this skill's instructions, or add the skill folder.",
  "Point it to your study notes folder, or your Obsidian vault.",
  "Say you want to review. It reads your Up for review list and picks the due notes.",
  "Explain each topic from memory before it shows anything. Answer honestly.",
  "Take the mixed quiz at the end.",
  "Check that the new due dates and the session log look right.",
  "Next, open the dashboard to see the updated review list. For topics marked gone, rebuild the lesson with the personal study notebook. To plan review dates for plain study cards, use the study review scheduler."
 ],
 "checks": [],
 "next": [
  {
   "name": "Personal study planner",
   "url": "https://useaiblocks.com/skills/personal-study-notebook",
   "why": "Personal study planner"
  },
  {
   "name": "Study review scheduler",
   "url": "https://useaiblocks.com/skills/study-review-scheduler",
   "why": "Study review scheduler"
  }
 ],
 "source": {
  "by": "Mohamed El-Sharqawy",
  "repo": "Mohamed-El-Sharqawy/agent-tutor",
  "url": "https://github.com/Mohamed-El-Sharqawy/agent-tutor/tree/5651e2eec062785967d07bcb4752a59f1bcf0eee/skills/agent-tutor-review",
  "licence": "MIT",
  "original_name": "agent-tutor-review",
  "commit": "5651e2eec062785967d07bcb4752a59f1bcf0eee"
 },
 "credits": [
  {
   "title": "agent-tutor-review skill",
   "by": "Mohamed El-Sharqawy",
   "url": "https://github.com/Mohamed-El-Sharqawy/agent-tutor/tree/5651e2eec062785967d07bcb4752a59f1bcf0eee/skills/agent-tutor-review",
   "used": "Copied under the MIT licence. We gave it a plain name. We added Before you start and After this sections that link to other AI Blocks steps."
  }
 ],
 "files": [
  "LICENSE"
 ],
 "links": {
  "page": "https://useaiblocks.com/skills/study-notebook-review",
  "markdown": "https://useaiblocks.com/skills/study-notebook-review.md",
  "json": "https://useaiblocks.com/skills/study-notebook-review.json",
  "instructions": "https://useaiblocks.com/skills/study-notebook-review/SKILL.md",
  "download": "https://useaiblocks.com/skills/study-notebook-review.zip",
  "api_item": "https://useaiblocks.com/api/v1/items/study-notebook-review",
  "api_document": "https://useaiblocks.com/api/v1/documents/skill/study-notebook-review",
  "mcp": "https://useaiblocks.com/mcp"
 }
}