Learn what you choose, at a pace you keep.
Schedule your book club reading so you never cram the night before. Name a subject and receive a course of study drawn from real books, lectures and podcasts. Or learn a poem you love by heart.
Studies serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability.Francis Bacon, Of Studies
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Keep pace with your book club
Pick the book, the day you need to finish and the days you read. learnyou.me divides it into daily sittings sized to your own reading speed. Today tells you exactly which pages to read.
Research on study habits finds that spreading work out tends to beat cramming it into one night.1,2 learnyou.me spreads a book across the days you have, so there’s no night-before cram. A specific target, like pages 212–240 today, also tends to work better than a vague one, like “read more”.3
Name a subject, receive a course
Tell us a topic, how much you already know, the hours you have each week and when you want to finish. You get an ordered reading list that can mix books, academic papers, free university lectures, podcasts and articles, each with its reason for being there, paced week by week.
- I.SPQR· Mary Beard · book
- II.The History of Rome· Mike Duncan · podcast
- III.The Storm Before the Storm· Mike Duncan · book
- IV.The Political Character of the Classical Roman Republic· Fergus Millar · paper
- V.Selected Letters· Cicero · book
Real sources, checked where we can
Reading lists are suggested by an AI model. Every work is then checked: books in Open Library, papers in OpenAlex, podcasts in Apple’s directory, and lectures and articles at their own page. Each one says whether it was found, wasn’t found or couldn’t be checked, so you know what to check before you start.
Your only rival is last week’s you
Progress compares you with your own past weeks: minutes, pages and days read, streaks and personal records. There are no leaderboards and no other people on the page.
Deciding in advance when you’ll do something tends to make you more likely to follow through.4 You choose your reading days and finish date up front, and the plan follows from them. Habits tend to form through repetition in a steady routine; in one study they took a median of 66 days to become automatic, with a wide range from person to person.5 So a streak continues on each day you finish every planned sitting and practice every piece that’s due, and a bookmark, earned by reading ahead, lets you miss a day without losing your streak.
Learn what you love by heart
Add a poem, a psalm or a speech and learn it a paragraph at a time. Each paragraph shows fewer words until you can write it out, then joins the ones before it. Once the whole piece is yours, it comes back for a write-out from memory, further apart each time you get it right.
Recalling something from memory tends to make it stick better than reading it again, and spacing those recalls out over days helps it last.1,2 So every review is a write-out, not a reread, and a miss is relearned the next day.
On the web today, on your phone soon
Everything works in your browser now. The iPhone and Android apps are coming soon, and they’ll share the same account, schedules and courses.
Plans & prices
- Free: unlimited book schedules and your first course.
- $2.99 a course: one more course, regenerated free up to five times.
- $4.99 a month or $39.99 a year: unlimited courses, about ten a month, and ten regenerations a month.
Questions
- Can I edit a course?
- Yes: change its title, hours and finish date and the reading list is re-paced. Regenerating, free a few times on each plan, composes a fresh list.
- What gets checked?
- Every work: books, papers and podcasts against a catalogue, lectures and articles at their own page.
- Is there a mobile app?
- Coming soon. The web app does everything today.
Begin with a book, or a subject.
Notes
- Cepeda, N. J., Pashler, H., Vul, E., Wixted, J. T., & Rohrer, D. (2006). Distributed practice in verbal recall tasks: A review and quantitative synthesis. Psychological Bulletin, 132(3), 354–380. doi:10.1037/0033-2909.132.3.354 ↩
- Dunlosky, J., Rawson, K. A., Marsh, E. J., Nathan, M. J., & Willingham, D. T. (2013). Improving students’ learning with effective learning techniques: Promising directions from cognitive and educational psychology. Psychological Science in the Public Interest, 14(1), 4–58. doi:10.1177/1529100612453266 ↩
- Locke, E. A., & Latham, G. P. (2002). Building a practically useful theory of goal setting and task motivation: A 35-year odyssey. American Psychologist, 57(9), 705–717. doi:10.1037/0003-066X.57.9.705 ↩
- Gollwitzer, P. M., & Sheeran, P. (2006). Implementation intentions and goal achievement: A meta-analysis of effects and processes. Advances in Experimental Social Psychology, 38, 69–119. doi:10.1016/S0065-2601(06)38002-1 ↩
- Lally, P., van Jaarsveld, C. H. M., Potts, H. W. W., & Wardle, J. (2010). How are habits formed: Modelling habit formation in the real world. European Journal of Social Psychology, 40(6), 998–1009. doi:10.1002/ejsp.674 ↩