GuideGetting started

Getting started

Lecture Hat is a workspace built around your own material. You bring the documents, and the AI tutor answers from them instead of from the open internet.

Create your account

  1. Go to lecturehat.com and sign up with your email address or a Google account.
  2. Confirm the code we email you, then accept the terms shown at sign-in.
  3. If your school gives you an address ending in .edu, use it. Academic accounts get a discount on Pro.

You land on your notebook list. Nothing is shared with anyone else unless you share it.

Your first notebook

A notebook is one course, project, or topic. Create one, give it a name, then add material to it:

  • Drag files onto the document list. PDFs, slides, Word documents, images, audio, and video all work.
  • Drop a whole folder to keep its structure.
  • Write your own notes in a .lect note inside the notebook.

Uploads are indexed in the background. Large files take a few minutes before the tutor can quote them.

Once a document is indexed, ask a question from the notebook home. Answers cite the pages they came from, and clicking a citation opens that page.