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A feedback loop for everything you read.
learnstack takes articles, papers and books you read, extracts the subject matter concepts, and links them into a graph. It also provides the essential tools for you to remember that material far beyond those initial days, weeks, and months after reading it.
What it looks like
One graph per subject
Every source you add is extracted into concepts and merged into the graph you already have. Nodes group under their parent topic, color shows how well you know each one, and a red outline marks a gap. Click a node and the panel shows the exact sentences from your sources that taught it.
Read, highlight, keep the evidence
Read your source and make highlights, then attach highlights to a concept, write notes, or generate flashcards from them.
Easily maintain and remember the things you learn
The Today view shows you reading progress, due flash card reviews, and recommendations about what to spend time learning next.
Cards and quizzes that come back at the right time
Cards are scheduled with FSRS and the page shows what each answer does to the interval. Quiz answers are graded, then you're given what was missing an ideal answer you can save as a card.
How it works, step by step
Five short slide decks, one workflow each. Arrow keys or swipe; every step has its own link.
Guide 1 · 7 steps
Add your first source and see the graph
From a URL, a pasted text, a PDF or a book to a concept graph with the evidence quoted.
Guide 2 · 6 steps
Read, highlight, and keep the evidence
The reader, highlights attached to concepts, notes with links, and cards made from what you marked.
Guide 3 · 6 steps
Remember it: Today, review and quizzes
The Today view, the review queue, quizzes with graded answers, self-ratings and what mastery means.
Guide 4 · 6 steps
Fill the gaps and pick what to learn next
Gaps your sources assume, one-click source finding, the Learn next frontier and keeping the graph tidy.
Guide 5 · 6 steps
Think it through in a Focus session
Write a draft about a few concepts, have it checked round by round against your own sources, and turn the result into evidence.
All guides
The full list
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What is in the box
Sources of any size
URLs, PDFs, pasted text, or the page you are on via the browser extension. A book becomes an outline; you pick the chapters worth extracting.
Evidence, not summaries
Every concept links back to the quotes that taught it. Nothing is stored that cannot be found in something you read.
Gaps
Concepts your sources assume but never explain are flagged. One click searches the web for something readable on the gap.
Mastery that fades
A score per concept from reviews, quizzes, self-ratings and coverage, rolled up the topic tree and decayed over time.
Learn next
The frontier of concepts whose prerequisites you already know, ranked by how much each one unblocks.
Notes with links
Markdown notes on any concept or highlight; [[double brackets]] link to concepts by name.
Graph editing
Merge, split, rename, reparent. A periodic sweep proposes merges and links across sources for you to accept or reject.
Yours to keep
Each graph is one SQLite file. Export the graph as JSON, cards to Anki, or the whole database.
Request an invite
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