Your study

Your computer—visualized.

Your computer. You never lose control of your data, and you are never locked out of your own study. Your study is an interface that stays on your computer, and it works disconnected from Fink's servers or completely offline (except for the Communicator and the Catalogue).

Get the Fink app No XP · yours alone The study is the app's. In a browser, Y opens a card that says so and points here.

An example student's study in the Fink app, filling up: it begins as a desk under a window onto hills, and as the film runs a clock, the counter, a board of slips, a pin board, an armchair, four bookcases of books and the lead arrive — An example student's study, in the Fink app. Four classes, seven things due, two sittings at the desk.

The room

Why?

The Study is built for the problem solver. It makes visualizing your data across your hardware simple and intuitive. It also makes it incredibly intuitive to draw out artificial intelligence machines.

A bookcase in the study, its class's name on the crown, books of different thicknesses along its shelves — **A bookcase per class**
Every file is a book, as thick as the file is big. `E` opens the class; Enter opens the book in its own app.

The board in the study: slips pinned up under WHAT'S DUE, the late ones in red — **The board**
What's due, one slip each, late in red. Type dates as you say them: *fri*, +3. Calendars from Canvas, Google or Outlook pin straight on.

The desk in the study, seen from above: the lamp lit, a notebook open in the class's colour — **The desk**
Sit down and the lamp lights and the clock starts, even while you work in another window. The minutes are yours alone.

A paper sheet of flash cards in the study, the front of one card showing — **Cards and notes**
Spaced flash cards, today's first. Anki and Quizlet exports drop right in. Notes per class, in a plain file.

A class's page in the study: its books, links, what's due, cards and notes on one paper sheet — **A class's page**
One sheet per class: books, links, deadlines, cards, notes, and the Fink games that practise it.

The study's wall: a pinboard of papers tied with string, an engraving, a wall clock — **The walls, the clock, the window**
A pinboard, a clock with your week beneath it, and a window lit for the hour on your computer.

Read it where it lies

Click a paper at the desk and its pages come up in the room: a PDF, a text file, a picture. Scroll to read on. The desk is a desktop, not a list of things to open somewhere else.

The light of the hour

Hang windows on any wall. The sun comes through them and lies on the floor where it would, moving round the room through the day; set the hour yourself if you would rather work at dusk. At night the lamps make pools.

Everything is a file

Everything you put in the study is a file.

Point at anything in the room to see what it is in your study folder, and what it is for.

The wall you come in by, in an example study: a red door under THE CATALOGUE and a blue door under THE COMMUNICATOR, a screen, a bookcase with a clock above it, a globe, a brass chute ring low on the wall, the Digitizer on its table at the left and a class bookcase at the right. The lead stands in the middle of the floor.

Point at anything in the picture, or pick a name below. Click or tap to keep its card.

The study folderan example

An example student's study, drawn by the Fink app. Every name in it is made up.

step 1 · set by its ownerRead it step 2 · a promptFind the topicsList the topics this covers, the things a student of it has to learn. step 3 · a promptWrite the questionsWrite {n} multiple-choice questions that test “{item}”.

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Machines

A machine.

A syllabus goes in. A game comes out.
Open it up.
Inside: steps its owner set, and the prompt it asks a model.
It stands in your study. Walk up and hand it a paper.

Four come with every study: the Mapper, the Quizzer, the Card Press, the Date Reader. Their minis think on a brain of your own.

Machines in the Catalogue

The Catalogue

What a study can have.

Numbered pieces for the room: machines and fittings, the house's free and makers' priced in lead. Every study has a lectern with the book on it, and every piece in the book was read by the house before it got its number.

The shelf is on its way.

The whole Catalogue Send a piece to the desk

It stays on your device

Three things the study never does.

The study is a folder on the machine the city runs on, and nothing else. On a Mac it is in the app's own folder under Application Support, and O at the desk opens it in Finder.

Nothing in it is sent anywhere.

No study script has a way to reach the network or Fink's ledger, and a test on the server greps them to keep it so. The server's list of places never names the study.

Nobody can come in, and you can't be seen.

Walking in closes the presence socket. There are no strangers in your study, nobody sees you go in, and chat says it is outside. Y takes you in from anywhere in the city, and back out to exactly where you stood.

Nothing in it is scored.

Sitting at the desk keeps minutes for you to see, and they never reach your record. Practise in Fink's games for XP; a class's page says where.

Bring your things in

Your study is just a folder on your computer.

Every shelf, card and due date is an ordinary file you can open, back up, or hand to any app or AI. Nothing is locked inside Fink.

Drop your things in

Drop files on the window while you face a bookcase. Drop a whole folder, or the .zip Canvas gives you when you download a course's files, and it becomes a bookcase of its own.

AI helpers need no key of Fink's

Because the study is files, the helper you already use can work on it: point Claude Code, or anything that reads a folder, at the study and it can read the classes, add cards, pin deadlines, or write a summary into a class's notes. A note in the folder tells it the format. Fink itself calls no model here.

Build the room yourself

BArrange: aim and E to pick something up, walk, E to set it down. R turns it a quarter.
NAdd a bookcase (a new class), an armchair, a floor lamp, a plant, a rug, a globe, a table, a sofa, a radio, a cabinet, a banner or a wall clock.
KThe walls' colour. F the floor: oak, walnut, ash, or black and white tiles. C a piece's colour.
PA screen on the wall, or a monitor on a stand, showing any window on your Mac; E up close hands it the mouse and the keys.

Numbered pieces for the study, the house's free and makers' priced, are in the Catalogue.

study/
  STUDY.md        what this folder is, for you and for an AI helper
  room.json       where things stand, the walls, the floor, each bookcase's colour
  due.tsv         when · class · title · done
  time.tsv        date · class · minutes
  shelves/
    Data Structures/   one folder per bookcase; every file in it is a book
      links.txt        title | https://...
      cards.tsv        front · back · box · next review
      notes.md         your notes for the class
    Music Theory I/
  put away/       nothing is ever deleted; it is put away here

Fink for your computer

The study is in the app, free.

The same city as the browser, and a room of your own. It updates itself whenever Fink does. See what changed

Play in browser

The Mac app is on its way. The browser has the same city now, without the study.

An example study, in the Fink app