Duey

Duey is the chat that already has your classes, your due dates and your Locker open, so you can ask instead of hunting.

Open it with Duey in the sidebar. The screen reads "What can I help you with?" and the box under it reads "Ask Duey anything about your classes...". Enter sends, Shift + Enter starts a new line, and Esc clears the box.

Duey isn't quite the same on every account yet. The tell is the row under the box: if there's an Auto menu on the left, you have the older set-up, and a few things on this page work differently for you. We've flagged each one.

What you can ask

A new chat shows eight suggestions under the box:

• 📅 What's due this week?
• 📖 Help me study for my test
• ⚡ Make flashcards from my notes
• ⏰ Schedule study time for me
• 📋 What's the late work policy?
• ✏️ Add an assignment to my class
• 🔍 Check my syllabus for missing work
• 🧠 What should I focus on today?

Clicking one sends it straight away — they're not drafts you can edit first.

Your own wording works the same: "am I behind on anything?", "what does my syllabus say about late work", "explain mitosis", "block 2 hours tomorrow at 2pm", "add a quiz called Unit 3 to my bio class". When a question could mean two things — "what's next", say — Duey asks a short question back instead of guessing.

If you have the Auto menu ("Let Duey decide"), you can point a question at one kind of answer: Schedule Summary ("Weekly schedule & free time"), Syllabus Q&A ("Policies, attendance, late work"), Study Sessions ("Plan focused study blocks") or General Chat ("Open-ended conversation"). Think Harder, on the other end of that row, is on every account. It stays on until you turn it off or reload Duey.

What Duey reads

• Your classes, assignments and time blocks, plus the meeting times on each class. Archived classes are left out.
• The syllabus attached to a class.
• Locker materials whose card reads "Indexed". "Processing..." isn't ready yet, and "Couldn't read file" is one Duey can't use. Uploading to your Locker is part of AI Pro.
• Before it proposes study time, what's already on your Due Gooder calendar and when your classes meet. With the Auto menu, it also reads the timed events on a connected Google Calendar for the next 14 days.
• The last few messages of the chat you're in, so "make flashcards from that" makes sense. Start a New Chat when you move to a different topic.

Anything about your schedule, your classes or your materials is answered from your account. Duey will also take a general study question, and if you don't have the Auto menu, it can look things up on the web.

What Duey can change

Study time and assignment changes come back as a proposal: cards showing exactly what would be added, edited or deleted, with an approval button and Not quite underneath. Approving saves them: blocks land on your Calendar, and assignment changes show up in the class. Not quite drops the proposal without writing anything and asks what you'd like changed.

You can usually reply in words instead, like "make it 30 mins", and Duey rebuilds the proposal. If the box is locked while a proposal is waiting — it reads "Review Duey's suggestion above first..." — use Edit on the card.

With the Auto menu, if a proposed block lands on a time block you already have, Duey says so before you confirm and still lets you add it anyway.

Ask for flashcards, or for help studying for a test, and Duey either lists that class's materials for you to pick from, or finds them itself and hands you a proposal to approve. When you get the picker, the button under the list counts what you've ticked, so it reads Use 2 Materials for Study for two. Duey then asks "What would you like to do?" and offers 📖 Review Content, ⚡ Make Flashcards and 📝 Practice Test. ⚡ Make Flashcards opens a card where you set How many cards? and Card types first, and Study Now opens the set once it's built.

When Duey doesn't have it

The response depends on what Duey couldn't find:

• With the Auto menu, if nothing is scheduled for those days, Duey says so and offers to check your syllabus for upcoming work.
• No syllabus for the class: Duey says no syllabus is on file. Add one and ask again; see upload a syllabus.
• With the Auto menu, if nothing matches, Duey suggests naming a topic or chapter and checking that the file has finished processing.
• Materials still being read: it points you back to your Locker to wait for them to finish.
• A class or assignment name it can't place: Duey asks which one you meant instead of picking for you.

Limits

• Duey allows 100 chat requests an hour. Without the Auto menu, approving, editing or rejecting a proposal also counts, and a countdown shows when you can send again. With Auto, approval and rejection don't count; if the box becomes disabled after you reach the limit, reload Duey after the hour resets.
• 8,000 characters in one message.
• Study blocks in one go: with the Auto menu, one request can contain up to 10 blocks, each no longer than 8 hours. Without Auto, one proposal can contain up to 20 blocks.
• Times that have already gone: with the Auto menu, Duey won't put a study block in the past and offers you tomorrow instead. Without Auto, a past date isn't saved unless you confirm it, and Duey may then show a new proposal to approve.

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