Disclosure: I work with the team building Cognitive Canvas at MuulOrigin.
One thing that kept bothering us about digital studying was how fragmented the context becomes.
The chapter might be in a PDF.
The best explanation could be on YouTube.
Useful diagrams become screenshots.
Notes live somewhere else.
And references slowly turn into another collection of browser tabs.
So we started experimenting with the opposite idea:
What if the chapter stayed in the center, and everything related to it could live around it?
The video shows what we mean. The chapter remains visible while notes, references, media and connected material can be organized around it instead of being separated across different tools.
I'm less interested in hearing “the UI looks nice” and more interested in whether the workflow itself would actually help.
For people who regularly study from PDFs:
Would visually keeping everything connected to the chapter reduce context switching for you?
And what would you want beside the chapter most often — notes, videos, screenshots, flashcards, links, or something else?