Bring one real problem you're actually stuck on. That's the whole trick to a good first session — the app is much better at helping with tonight's homework than at demonstrating itself.
Here's the order to do things in.
Minute 0 — the three slides
Three screens introduce Heddy, and you can skip them. Read the second one, at least: it's the bit that explains that the tutors won't hand you the answer, which is the thing most likely to surprise you in five minutes' time.
Then tap Start learning. No account, no email, no password — that's deliberate.
Minute 1 — say what's actually wrong
You land on the home screen with Heddy above the perch: "Ready for your very first session? Let's begin."
Tap through to her and tell her the real thing. Not "help me with maths" — "I've got twelve simultaneous equations for tomorrow and I don't understand the elimination ones."
She'll route you to Professor Pi. You can also skip her entirely: type @pi and anything after the space travels with you into his room, so @pi simultaneous equations elimination puts you straight in front of him, already asked.
Minutes 2–7 — work the ladder to the end
This is the part that decides whether the app works for you, so here's the honest instruction: don't bail at rung two.
You'll get a question back before you get help. Then a narrower question. Then the method named. Then, if you still need it, a fully worked similar problem and "now redo yours". There is no rung after that — asking again gets you a different twin, not your answer.
Two things make this go much better:
Say what you tried. "I got 4x = 12 and then I got stuck" is a different conversation from "I don't get question 7". The first lets a tutor find your actual error in one move.
Use /hint when you're staring at a page. It's built for exactly the case where the problem is in front of you on paper and you can't type it out.
Useful commands in a professor's room: /homework, /example (a worked twin), /hint, and the subject one — /essay for Quill, /predict for Newton, /picture for Curie, /explain for Darwin, /source for Harari, /place for Mercator.
Minute 8 — turn it into cards
Before you leave, type /cards.
The session becomes flashcards, written by the professor who just watched you get it wrong, filed under the right subject automatically. This takes about four seconds and is the single highest-value thing you can do in the app, because it's the difference between understanding something tonight and still knowing it in March.
Then /log to wrap up — it closes the session properly and files it.
Minute 9 — adopt one deck
Go to My Flashcards. If you've just made your first deck it'll be there, but one deck isn't a review habit.
Open the Atlas and adopt one ready-made deck in a subject you're doing this term. That's the library of pre-built decks across all seven subjects and the main UK competitions, and it exists for exactly this moment — so your first review tomorrow isn't an empty shelf. More on the Atlas.
Minute 10 — do one review
Tap Start review. Read the front, actually try to answer before you flip — the trying is the part that works — then grade yourself honestly with Again, Good or Easy. Each button shows when the card will next come back.
Grade honestly. Easy on a card you half-knew sends it away for weeks, and it comes back the day before an assessment as a stranger.
Tomorrow
Two things, and neither takes long:
Do your due cards. The panel tells you honestly how long it'll take — roughly twenty seconds a card. Four minutes is four minutes.
When a card won't stick, carry it. On the back of a card you've just marked Again, you can take that exact card to the professor who owns it, with the question already asked. That gesture is the whole point of the app, and most people don't find it in their first week.
Updated 10 Sep 2026. Written by Duke Harewood, who builds the tutors at aitutors.me.