Good study practices

Lunar adapts to how you use it. These habits consistently produce better, more consistent answers — and more durable learning.

Start with a concrete goal

Begin with a specific question and a clear intention: understand, practice, or compare. "Explain how FFT works, step by step, with an example" beats "tell me about signals". Concrete questions reduce ambiguity, and Lunar's session tracking works better when the objective is precise.

Split broad topics into blocks

For wide subjects, work in small blocks: one conversation thread per coherent chunk, with step-by-step examples to consolidate each piece before moving on. Use branches when a block grows out of an existing thread.

Ask why, not just what

When Lunar gives you a definition or a result, ask why it holds or what breaks without it. Mechanism-level questions surface pitfalls and transfer opportunities — the roles your study anchors are designed to capture.

Use checkpoints and spaced review

• Open the interactive citations of key terms to validate definitions before advancing.
• Run the study map's test mode on each session's concepts, and repeat a short flashcard round the next day — spaced review beats cramming.
• Treat anchors as your progress ledger: aim to move each one from seen to mastered.

Teach it back

The fastest way to find out whether you understood something is to explain it. Ask Lunar to let you teach the concept back, and let it correct you — or explain it in your own words in a microchat and ask Lunar to check the explanation against the session.

Walk the concept tree as a checklist

Go from general to specific. Nodes that look lonely or unfamiliar are usually the gaps worth a microchat.

[!TIP] Keep the thread alive. Context inside a session is an asset: follow up instead of restarting, and let Space memory carry long-term continuity — that is what makes week-three answers aware of week-one doubts.