157: Tech Tools for Vets 2: AI-Powered Learning with StudyAnything. With Hasitha Jayatilake

<p>You know that feeling: exam time is looming.  You&#39;ve spent three days making flashcards and highlighting your notes, but you haven&#39;t even <strong>started </strong>actually <em>studying</em> yet...</p><p>Whether you&#39;re a vet student drowning in slide decks, a membership candidate juggling articles and notes, or a resident trying to jam an impossible volume of clinical knowledge into your skull - the way most of us study is, frankly, not backed by the science. Which is why you might need a little help from technology:</p><p>In part two of our Tech Tools for Vets series, software engineer Hasitha Jayatilake<strong> </strong>joins me to walk you through <a href="https://www.studyanything.academy" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">StudyAnything </a>- an AI-powered study tool that generates quizzes from your notes, tracks your weak spots over time, and builds guided learning pathways based on Bloom&#39;s hierarchy of learning. (By the way - he built this tool because he couldn’t bare watching his vet student partner making Anki cards at 2am!)</p><p><strong>What you&#39;ll learn:</strong></p><ul><li><strong>How active recall and spaced repetition actually work</strong> - and why highlighting your notes is basically doing nothing</li><li><strong>What Bloom&#39;s hierarchy means for your study plan</strong> - and how Study Anything uses it to move you from rote recall to clinical application</li><li><strong>StudyAnything’s guided learning pathway feature</strong> (just gone live) - that turns your uploaded notes into a structured lesson plan with concept maps, assumed knowledge, and motivational context</li><li><strong>How the community feature works</strong> - study groups, shared question banks, and what this means for educators (or podcast hosts!)  who want to create resources</li><li><strong>How to generate harder questions on demand</strong> - using learning outcomes and difficulty levels to get yourself on the honours roll</li><li><strong>What makes this different from Notebook LM or other AI tools</strong> </li></ul><p>This episode includes screen sharing, so if you want to follow along, watch the video on Spotify. If you prefer audio only, you&#39;ll still get 99% of the value.</p><p>The team at StudyAnything are giving Vet Vault listeners the opportunity to try out their top tier subscription (LOTS of quizzes!) with code <strong>VETVAULT</strong> at <a href="https://www.studyanything.academy" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener nor