Learning Mode (Lernmodus)

Learning mode turns the chat into a tutor: instead of handing you the finished solution, the AI guides you towards it with questions, hints and small steps.

What Learning Mode Does

Normal chats are optimized to deliver an answer quickly. Learning mode is different: it is designed for actually understanding a topic. The AI deliberately does not give away the solution. Instead it asks guiding questions, points to the relevant concept, names the next small step or gives a hint – and lets you do the work.

The Learning Mode Tab

Learning mode has its own entry in the sidebar, directly below Workflows. It uses the exact same chat view as the normal chat – same message bubbles, markdown, code blocks, charts, tool calls and documents. Only the behavior of the AI differs.

• The tab keeps its own list of learning sessions, separate from normal chats.
• New Learning Session starts a fresh tutoring session.
• Clicking a session in the list opens it; a running session keeps working in the background.
• Switching tabs automatically selects a conversation of the matching type, so you always land in the right list.

The Tutor Rules

In every learning session the AI follows these rules:

• Never state the final solution – not even "just for orientation".
• Guide instead of solve: ask focused questions, point to the next small step, give a concrete hint.
• Work step by step and wait for your attempt before moving on.
• Progressive hints: when you are stuck, hints get stronger – but the final step stays yours.
• Explain the "why" behind each hint in a way that fits your level.
• Only reveal the full solution when you explicitly ask for it after several genuine attempts.

Periodic Reminder

So the AI does not drift back into "answer mode" during a long session, the system regularly re-anchors the tutor behavior with a short reminder in the conversation. When the reminder fires, you see a small [System] note in the chat.

You can configure this under Settings → System & Prompts → Learning Mode:

• Periodic reminder – turn the reminder on or off.
• Reminder interval (messages) – after how many of your messages the AI is reminded again (1 = every message).

Documents & Materials

Learning mode is built for working with your own material. Attach PDFs and text files through the "+" menu → Documents. This also works in normal chats – see Chat Features → Documents.

• Claude and Gemini receive the document natively (including layout and images inside a PDF).
• Other models get the text extracted locally (Apache PDFBox for PDFs) and inserted into the prompt.
• The AI can use the material as context while still guiding you instead of spoiling the solution.

Good to Know

• The learning instruction is prepended to the system prompt in English only and is never shown to you as a message – it is an internal instruction.
• Rewind works here too: just like in a normal chat, the Return button on a user message resets the session back to that point and puts your text back into the input field.
• All other features (providers, models, documents, markdown, charts, tool calls) behave exactly like in the normal chat.
• Generated images (charts, screenshots) can be referenced inline in the text as well – see Chat Features → Inline References.
• Learning sessions are stored like normal conversations, so they survive a restart.