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Guides and walkthroughs for everything in PlanexAI, on your phone and on the web.
Getting started
Accounts, the free trial, plans, and your first tour.
Create your PlanexAI account
Sign up with your email or Apple account on the mobile app or at planexai.com. One account works everywhere.
Start your free trial
Every new account starts a 14 day free trial of Academic Pro automatically. No payment details needed.
Compare Academic Plus and Academic Pro
What the free plan includes, what Academic Plus adds, and when Academic Pro is worth it.
Get to know the mobile app
The four tabs, the focus bar, and where to find your profile: a two minute orientation to the PlanexAI iPhone app.
Get to know the web dashboard
A quick orientation to the planexai.com dashboard: the sidebar, the Today page, and the built-in page tours.
Syllabus scanning
Turn a syllabus into your semester plan in one scan.
Scan a syllabus with your phone
Point your camera at a syllabus or upload the file, and PlanexAI builds the whole course: every assignment, every due date.
Upload a syllabus on the web
Drop a PDF syllabus into the dashboard and PlanexAI extracts the course, assignments, and due dates for review.
Review what PlanexAI extracted
After a scan you review everything before it becomes real: fix details, exclude items, and shift old dates to the current term.
Plan your semester
Courses, assignments, the calendar, and grade tracking.
Add courses without a syllabus
No syllabus handy? Create a course by hand in under a minute and add its work as it comes.
Share a course with your class
One classmate scans the syllabus; everyone else joins with a code and gets every assignment, already planned.
Add, edit, and complete assignments
Create any kind of coursework, set priorities and time estimates, and check things off as you go.
Use the Plan calendar
Week, Month, and Term views, workload-tinted days, personal events, and a one-tap Replan when life happens.
Track grades and run GPA what-if scenarios
The Term view shows your semester shape, where your grades stand, and which course moves your GPA most; the calculator models any scenario.
Study smarter
SmartCards, quizzes, exam mode, notes, and the focus timer.
Create SmartCards
Five ways to build a deck: a syllabus scan, your notes, manual cards, a Quizlet or Anki import, or the ready-made library.
Turn notes into SmartCards
Capture a note, then turn it into flashcards, a graded quiz, or scheduled study sessions in one tap.
Review, Learn, and Quiz modes
Three ways to study a deck: spaced-repetition review, weakest-cards-first learning, and graded practice quizzes.
Get exam ready with Exam Mode
PlanexAI plans short prep sessions before each exam. Every card needs two Good ratings to retire, and the plan adapts as the exam gets closer.
Study diagrams with occlusion cards
Cover the labels on any diagram and study it by tapping to reveal: anatomy, cycles, maps, circuits.
Use the focus timer
Start a focus session, see the timer follow you on every screen, and watch finished sessions become stars in your constellation.
Use the free study library
Forty curated, expert-checked decks across 14 subjects, ready to add to your account in one tap.
Your path
Career matches, readiness, and academic records.
Discover your career matches
The Path tab matches your coursework against 200+ real careers with federal salary and growth data, and shows how far along you already are.
Take the career discovery quiz
Four short questions about your skills, traits, interests, and work style; PlanexAI reasons through 200+ careers and hands you one recommendation with the why.
Track your career readiness
One small career move every week, scheduled on your calendar, with missed weeks that never break your progress.
Academic records and your transcript
Upload your transcript as a PDF or photos and PlanexAI extracts your GPA, credits, and full course history; fix any detail, confirm it, and add past courses to your planner.
PlanexAI assistant
Type or speak commands and let PlanexAI do the tapping.
Calendar sync
Google, Outlook, Apple Calendar, and Canvas import.
Two-way sync, calendar feed, or Canvas: which to use
Three ways to connect PlanexAI to the rest of your world, and when each one is the right choice.
Two-way sync with Google or Outlook
Connect your account once and PlanexAI keeps your external calendar current: new assignments appear, changed due dates update, deleted work disappears.
Subscribe to your PlanexAI calendar feed
A private link that puts every assignment and exam in Apple Calendar, Google Calendar, or Outlook, no account linking required.
Import courses from Canvas
Connect Canvas with an access token and pull your enrolled courses and assignments straight into your planner.
Notifications and widgets
Reminders, home screen widgets, and Live Activities.
Manage notifications
Choose exactly which nudges you get: due-soon reminders, streak protection, and email updates.
Home screen widgets
The Your Day widget puts your classes and due work on the home screen: what is next, what is now, and what is already behind you.
Exam countdown Live Activity
The night before an exam, a live countdown appears on your Lock Screen and in the Dynamic Island, with your prep progress alongside it.
Account and billing
Subscriptions, your profile, your data, and deletion.
Manage, restore, or cancel your subscription
Where your subscription lives depends on where you bought it: through Apple on iOS, or by card on the web.
Edit your profile
Update your name, major, education level, graduation year, target GPA, and career goals anytime.
Export your data
Your courses, assignments, and study history belong to you: export everything as a file whenever you want.
Delete your account
Deletion is built into the app, permanent, and password-confirmed. Export your data first if you want a copy.
Troubleshooting
When something looks stale, stuck, or signed out.
For advisors
Guides for advisors and institutions using PlanexAI with their students.
Advisor dashboard overview
What an advisor sees on sign-in: caseload stats, a priority triage queue ranked by severity, and one-click paths to codes, students, and messages.
Manage your caseload
Access codes bring students in; My Students lets you search, filter by priority, open full student detail, and message in bulk.
Message and refer students
Two-way messaging threads with every student, searchable by thread or message content, plus structured referrals with status tracking.
Understand advisor analytics
Caseload-wide metrics, a sortable at-risk student view, and study-hours-versus-grades correlation per course.
Set up your institution
Advisor accounts are free to create; institution administrators additionally manage license seats and monitor campus integrations.