| I've been spending some time over the past few months developing a app for myself and family to help with this. Basically, what I do is: - make a list of books that I want to read - over time, as I acquire the book, I have a tool to split up the book into separate chapters. These chapters are then loaded into the reading app. - every day, I open the app and it chooses a chapter from a random book for me to read - as I read, I highlight interesting, useful or difficult sections that I want to remember/study further - instead of showing me a chapter, the app can also show a list of highlights from a previously read chapter. During this step it asks me to create little quizzes from the notes - either in the form of cloze replacements or simple q&a. Alternatively I can also create reflection questions or daily actions from the notes. - in addition to the previous steps, the tool then also uses spaced repetition algorithm to review the little quizzes that I created from the books I've read - every morning it chooses 10 of the actions that I identified and asks me how I am going to implement/practice them today - every night it asks me how I practiced those actions It does a bit more than this, but that's the main part. I've already seen great results from doing this, as I've always found the biggest problem with reading is that it tends to be too passive, and having the review and action steps helps alleviate that problem. |
Can your app be made publicly? I’d love to experiment with your setup.