Breef turns your notes into a map of what you know, and brings each one back for review before you forget it.
Breef project page with an exam date and review progress
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What is Breef?
Study notes that link up and come back before you forget
Breef is a note-taking and study app for students, medical students, researchers and lifelong learners who bring their own material: lecture notes, books, papers, slides and recordings.
Write notes that format as you type, with formulas, images and files, and link ideas with [[double brackets]]. Every note and link becomes one map of what you know, grouped by course and coloured by how well you remember it.
Breef brings each note back for review before you forget it: a day after you write it, then less and less often each time you remember it. Review by reading it through, answering questions written from it, or going through your own cards (which export to Anki). Give a course its exam date and its notes come back more often until the day.
It also writes for you: record a lecture and Breef turns it into a tidy study note with the transcript underneath; drop in a PDF of slides and get linked notes; ask a question and get an answer from your own notes, citing the notes it used.
Free forever for notes, links, the map, search, reviews and exam prep, with monthly allowances for the AI features. Pro is €6 a month for more. Runs in the browser in English, Italian, Spanish, French and German. Notes are private, never sold or used to train AI, and stored in the EU.
Platforms and languages
Breef Availability
Platforms
Languages
Capabilities
Breef Key Features
Notes that link up
Notes that format as you type, with formulas, images, files and [[links]] between them.
Knowledge map
Every note and link as one graph, grouped by course and coloured by how well you know it.
Spaced reviews
Each note comes back for review at 1, 3, 7, 21, 60 and 120 days: read it through, answer quiz questions written from it, or go through your own cards (Anki export).
Exam dates
Give a course its exam date and its notes come back more often until the day.
Voice notes, PDF to notes and Ask your notes
Record a lecture and get a tidy study note with the transcript; drop in a PDF of slides and get linked notes; ask a question and get an answer that cites your own notes.
Best for
Who uses Breef?
Students
Revising for exams: lecture notes that link up, come back for review and get a course ready by its exam date.
Medical students
Large volumes of material reviewed on a spaced schedule, with quizzes and cards that export to Anki.
Researchers
Reading notes on papers and books linked into one map of what you know, with answers drawn from your own notes.
Lifelong learners
Learning a language or a new field, or building a zettelkasten / second brain.
Plans and access
Breef Pricing
Freemium
€6/month (Pro)
Free forever for notes, links, the map, search, reviews and exam prep, with monthly allowances for the AI features. Pro is €6 a month or €48 a year (+ VAT) for more. No free trial: the free plan instead.
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