Fluera

Getting started

Your first canvas

A ten-minute walk-through of the basic flow: create, capture, reconstruct, question, confront. All on one canvas.

Updated 20 April 2026

This walk-through uses ten minutes of your time and one topic you are studying this week. Don’t pick a topic you know cold; pick one you are genuinely working on.

Minutes 0–2: Create the canvas

Open Fluera. Tap New canvas. Name it after the topic (not the lecture — the concept). Pick a brush — fountain pen is a safe default. Stay with the default stroke width for now.

The canvas is blank. That is intentional — templates are not helpful here.

Minutes 2–6: Capture

Write 8–15 concepts from memory. Not definitions — just the concepts themselves. Things like backpropagation, the Krebs cycle, Pareto efficiency. Place each one in a position that feels right relative to the others. Cluster related concepts together. Leave space between unrelated ones.

Draw arrows between concepts you think are related. Label the arrow if the relationship is non-obvious (“causes”, “depends on”, “is a kind of”).

You should feel slightly uncomfortable. The canvas will not be neat. That is also intentional — this is the generation step, and the cognitive work is exactly what produces the memory.

Minutes 6–8: Reconstruct

Cover your source material. Try to write, from memory, anything you remember about one of the concepts you placed. Do it on the canvas, to the side of the relevant node.

Where your memory fails, the node stays red. Those red spots are the map of what to study next. Don’t fix them now — just notice them.

Minutes 8–10: Socratic

Tap the Socratic button. Fluera will ask you a question about one of your concepts. Before you answer, rate your confidence 1 to 5. Commit to the number.

Answer by writing on the canvas. Tap reveal. See how you did.

If you were confidently wrong — take the bite. That’s the hypercorrection effect, and it’s the single most memorable experience you’ll have with Fluera. It feels bad. It works.

What to do next

Close the canvas. Do not re-read it.

Come back tomorrow. The canvas will open with some regions faded — that’s Fluera deciding what you are about to forget. Pull those regions back from memory before revealing them.

This is the loop. Repeat it across days, weeks, months. The canvas grows. Your memory for the material grows with it.

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