TutorialsEfficient Intensive Reading in the AI Era
Lesson 2 of the Xuexi AI Star Community co-learning program. Turn long articles, books, and courses into knowledge cards with AI + Skills.
This course is built around one skill that lets you finish any long article, long video, or course in three minutes. You will learn to replace ad-hoc prompts with reusable Skills so the AI consistently produces editable, reviewable knowledge cards, and reuse the same workflow for book breakdowns, new courses, and academic revision.
What you will learn
Intensive-read long content
Turn long articles, long videos, and reports into knowledge cards so you triage before deciding what to read deeply.
Mind maps and book cards
Use AI to fetch book outlines into mind maps, pair with Feishu canvas and book cards to cover structure and detail.
Onboard to a new course fast
Throw the course link at AI, break it into chapter-level knowledge cards, and plan a learning path.
Subject knowledge cards
Convert textbooks and revision material into pre-exam cards for parents, students, and teachers.
Skills for stable AI output
Understand the difference between prompts and Skills, and apply five acceptance criteria.
Who it is for
Course structure
This course has five lessons covering long-content reading, book breakdown, course onboarding, subject cards, and Skill usage.
Intensive-reading long articles and reports
Spot the typical pain points of long-content reading and learn one Skill that turns an article link into skimmable knowledge cards.
Mind maps and reading cards for books
Learn two mind map approaches (Markdown mind-map sites and Feishu canvas with built-in AI) and pair them with reading cards for detail review.
Onboard to a new course fast
Throw the course link at AI, break it into chapter/time-segment knowledge cards, and selectively re-watch the parts that matter.
Bonus: subject knowledge cards
Turn textbooks into pre-exam cards for parents, students, and teachers, with recommended colour palettes.
Use Skills to stabilize AI output
Understand that a Skill is a work manual for AI, learn two invocation methods, and the five acceptance criteria for cards.
Companion materials
This course ships five Skills on SkillHub, each tuned for one scenario — click a name to view it. Each lesson tells you which one to install.
| Skill (click to view) | Scenario |
|---|---|
| Course Learning Assistant | Turn a course series into reviewable knowledge cards |
| Long Content Knowledge Cards | Turn long articles, long videos, and reports into knowledge cards |
| Book to Knowledge Cards | Break a book into chapter-level knowledge cards |
| Book to Knowledge Cards — Feishu Canvas | Generate mind maps and cards directly inside Feishu canvas |
| Quick Learning Knowledge Cards | Turn any study material into themed knowledge cards |