What is on a page
A page is the unit of your wiki: a summary, the text itself, the questions that test you on it, and the record of how well you know it. Here is every part of one, and what you can do to it.
Reading a page
The summary sits under the title: one or two sentences, so a page you half-remember can be identified without reading it. Below that is the page itself.
Terms that have their own page are linked in the text, at their first mention only, so the prose stays readable rather than turning blue. A page with three or more sections grows a Contents list under its opening paragraphs. The arrows at the foot of the page walk the whole volume in reading order, so finishing one chapter carries you into the next.
Reading counts, but Eigma wants to be sure you read it: a page registers as read once you have been on it for a few seconds, and it is recorded when you leave. Reading is half of how Eigma decides you know something. The other half is answering.
The details card
Beside the page, or below it on a narrow screen, is the record behind it:
- Memory state: one percentage for how much of this page is yours, explained in How Eigma decides you know something.
- Last tested and Last viewed.
- Category: the chapter it is filed under.
- Related nodes: other pages linked to this one.
- Local history: View opens the last 10 versions of the page. See Undo, history and the Trash.
A page also carries a small label saying where its current text came from: Generated by LLM, Edited by you, or Locked by you. It is there so you can tell, later, which pages you have actually read with your own eyes.
Questions
The reading view keeps one control, Start quiz, with the number of questions on it. The questions themselves live in Edit, so that reading a page and maintaining it stay separate.
There are three kinds: multiple choice, fill in the blank, and true or false. All three are answered by choosing, never by typing, so a session works one-handed and the grading is exact. Your assistant writes them when it files the page, as many as the material needs, and there is no ceiling on how many a page may carry.
In Edit, the questions card lets you:
- Add one by hand, as multiple choice or true or false, with its options, correct answer and an optional explanation shown after answering. Fill in the blank cannot be written by hand, only imported or generated.
- Edit or delete any of them.
- Generate more without leaving the page. Eigma gives you a prompt to copy, you run it in your own assistant, and paste the reply back. What comes back is shown to you one question at a time, and only what you confirm is added.
Answering correctly is the only thing that makes Eigma consider a page durable. Re-reading helps, but it is capped: as long as a page has questions on it, reading alone never turns it gold.
Editing
Two ways in, for two different jobs.
Double-click a paragraph to correct it where it stands. This is for a typo or a sentence that reads wrong. Ctrl+Z takes it back. If double-click does nothing on a particular page, it is one whose mathematical notation is written in an older style that the in-place editor cannot splice into safely; the Edit button still opens it.
The Edit button opens the page’s structure, which is for bigger changes: the title and summary, then the whole page source folded away, then each section with its own text, which you can reorder or delete, and then the questions. There is no Cancel here: every change is saved as you make it, and the way back is Ctrl+Z or Local history.
Your own edits are recorded in Local history before they are applied, so a change you regret is one Restore this version away. Edits within two minutes of each other collapse into a single version.
Highlights and notes
Select any text in the page and a small toolbar appears: Highlight it in a colour, or attach a Note to it. Notes are collected in Page notes at the bottom of the page.
Highlights anchor to the text they were made on. Edit that text later and an annotation whose anchor no longer exists is marked Text not found and kept in Page notes rather than thrown away. A locked page can still be annotated: a note is yours, not a change to the page.
Locking a page
Lock protects a page from being rewritten by imports.
This matters once your assistant is filing regularly, because it is the only way to say “this one is mine”. When an import would change a locked page’s text, Eigma does not quietly skip it: it names the page and tells you it is locked, and offers to unlock it once and accept if that is what you want. If the rest of that message landed anyway, it says so. If nothing else in it could be applied, the message waits in your inbox until you unlock the page.
A locked page also cannot be edited until you unlock it.
Other language versions
A page can hold versions of itself in other languages. The language switcher moves between them, and each one keeps its own edits and its own Ctrl+Z steps. Local history is the exception: it follows the original, so an edit to a translated version is not recorded there and Ctrl+Z is the only way back from it.
Structure changes belong to the original: to reorder or delete sections, switch back to it. Questions stay in the language the page was written in.
Where the page really lives
On the desktop app, your wiki is a folder of ordinary Markdown files you can point Obsidian at. In the browser, the same pages live in the browser’s own storage, which is why signing in matters there: it is what gets them off the one device. Either way, Export in Settings hands you the whole thing as a file. Nothing about your wiki is locked inside Eigma’s own format.