Outlining without starting from scratch

The outline is not the study — it is the artifact of the study. If you skip the reading and the briefing and paste in someone else’s outline, you have a nice document and no memory. If you build the outline from your own briefs, you have already reviewed the semester twice by the time it is done.

Start from the syllabus, not the casebook

Your professor’s syllabus is already a topical scaffold — Torts by element, Contracts by formation stage, Civ Pro by rule number. Import it once and Scriba drafts the topic tree for you. From there, every brief you wrote drops under the topic it belongs to.

The blocks that actually help on the exam

• Rule statement — the one-sentence version you will paraphrase on the exam.
• Policy — the “why” the professor keeps circling in class.
• Hypo — the one from class where the rule broke, and how it broke.
• Exam tip — your own note on the trap you know you will fall into.

Every node keeps an anchor back to the original brief and case, so when you get to reading week and the outline says something confusing, one click takes you back to the reasoning you wrote in October.