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Knowledge map

Tracks what you know.

Desk maps your understanding across every topic on your degree — what's strong, what's fading, and what you haven't touched yet.

  • Every topic rated — solid, medium or weak
  • Tracked quietly in the background while you study
  • Built from your real work, not self-ratings
Module knowledge
Criminal Law
Causation ↓

You know the tests, but you're blurring factual and legal causation once the facts get messy — and novus actus is where it shows. The White, Blaue and Kennedy line would sharpen that distinction before Thursday.

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Study rhythm

Learns when you learn best.

Your patterns, habits and progress - tracked automatically, analysed intelligently, and surfaced when it matters

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Three more and it's a new record.

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Tailored explanations

Learns how you learn best.

Everyone understands things differently. Ask Desk to explain anything and it adapts to your learning style — analogies if that's what clicks, worked examples if you prefer them.

  • Explanations in the style that works for you
  • Grounded in your lecturer's material, not the internet
  • Pitched at what you already know
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Causation
Criminal Law · lecture 2

Novus actus interveniens — an intervening act only breaks the chain if it is free, deliberate and informed. See White, Blaue, Kennedy (No 2).

The courts distinguish medical cases (Cheshire, Jordan) from victim-choice cases (Blaue, Kennedy), where the question turns on whether the victim's act was truly voluntary.

Jordan is the outlier: treatment described as "palpably wrong" did break the chain. Contrast Cheshire, where even negligent care left the original wound operative…

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Thinking about how you learn…Analysing past explanations…
You learn best from analogies

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Not just another chatbot

Built to know you.
Not just answer you.

A general-purpose chatbot has no idea what course you're on or what you already know. Desk is built around your degree from the start.

Test Explain Plan
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Test me on game theory
Of course! What level are you studying at, and which parts of game theory has your course covered?
second year economics at Edinburgh — we did up to backward induction
Question 1: Define a Nash equilibrium in your own words and explain why it need not be Pareto efficient.
that’s not how my course asks it — can you use my past papers?
I don’t have access to your past papers. If you paste one here, I can match its style.
ugh, ok — pasting the 2023 paper…
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Test me on game theory
Starting with backward induction — you got it wrong in two of the last three past papers. Ten questions, hardest first…
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What should I do today?
A productive day starts with a plan! Try listing your tasks, tackling the hardest one first, and taking regular breaks.
I meant for uni. My essay is due Friday
In that case: 1) make progress on the essay, 2) review this week’s lecture notes, 3) prepare questions for your next seminar.
which notes though?
Whichever module you feel least confident about! Little and often beats cramming.
right. and which one am I least confident about?
That’s something only you can judge! Try rating yourself on each topic from 1 to 5.
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What should I do today?
Statistics seminar at 2pm — pre-seminar prep is ready. Then work on the first draft of your Qualitative Methods essay, due Wednesday next week…
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Can you explain Nash equilibria again?
Happy to! And since you know exactly what a dominant strategy is — we discussed it two months ago — I’ll build on that.
what? that was a different module
My mistake! Starting fresh: a Nash equilibrium is a strategy profile where no player can gain by changing strategy unilaterally. Would you like a formal definition, or an example?
explain it the way our lecturer did — payoff matrices, week 7
I don’t have access to your week 7 slides. If you paste the payoff matrices here, I can walk through them.
hang on, finding the pdf…
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Can you explain Nash equilibria again?
You already have dominant strategies solid, so this builds straight off them. Written as the bargaining analogy you learn fastest from, with the formal definition kept for the end…
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—One-size-fits-all explanations

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Deep focus

Built to help you focus.

Desk holds all the tools you need, so you can focus on the work - not managing platforms.

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Where the work livesEight tools, none of them talkingOne platform, everything in it
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AttentionResets every few minutesHeld long enough to go deep
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Some work needs silence, some needs your coursemates. Desk holds both — deep-focus sessions on your own, and shared study spaces you can spin up for any class study group or group assessment.

ChatCreate group chats for study groups and group projects, message coursemates individually, and join your module and course group chats.
Shared Study SpacesCreate shared spaces for classes and assessments — pool materials, work on shared notes, and build shared task lists with tasks assigned to different members of the group.
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02 Add your modulesAdd your modules so Desk can add you to your group chats.
03 Study as you normally wouldMake notes, annotate materials, build flashcards. Desk tracks and analyses your learning in the background.
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