Your first ten minutes

1. Connect your AI account

On first launch Steady Flow shows the AI routes it can use: Claude Code (your Anthropic account) and Codex (your ChatGPT plan). If the official tool isn't on your Mac, press Install. The app downloads the official release into its own folder, checks it, then opens that tool's own sign-in. Sign in there. Steady Flow never sees your password or token.

A route is marked ready only after a real test message works on your account. If it fails, the app tells you why in plain words.

2. Create your course

Give it a name, like "ME 274 Dynamics", and set your exam date. The date is what makes Today and review get tighter as the exam gets closer.

3. Drop in your files

Add a folder with whatever you have: lecture slides, homework, posted solutions, your notes. Your originals are archived untouched. The app reads the text and gives you a plain report of what it found and what it couldn't read.

• Works best: PDFs and documents with real text, typed notes, posted solutions.
• Not read yet: scanned pages and handwriting. They're listed in the report so you aren't left guessing.
• Instructor solutions you add stay sealed from you until you commit to an answer.

4. Let it learn the course

In the background it builds your course map: topics grouped into units, plus your instructor's notation and methods. Tap Covered in class on topics your class has already done. Nothing on the map claims you've learned something yet. It only shows what was taught.

5. Start from Today

Today gives you one next thing, such as a twenty-minute topic followed by a few practice problems. Open it and you're in a lesson: a figure first, a question asking what you predict, then the explanation with page citations.

6. Practice, and get stuck on purpose

Type an answer, ask for a hint, or say I'm stuck. The tutor finds the first step that went wrong and keeps what you did right. Just show me always works, and it's recorded as a reveal so your progress stays honest.

Good to know

• The free window starts at your first completed tutoring moment and runs 14 days. After a 14-day pause, a new one opens. Review, progress, your library, figures and export keep working during the pause.
• Sources only vs. hybrid. By default the tutor sticks to your course. When your files don't cover something, it says so and offers Add sources or Use outside sources.
• Your data. Export, back up, restore and delete-everything are all in settings.