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The Today page: the day’s sittings with page ranges and minutes, the day streak and this week’s minutes.
Est. MMXXVI

Learn what you choose, at a pace you keep.

Schedule your book club reading so you never cram the night before. Or name a subject and receive a course of study drawn from real books, lectures and podcasts.

Studies serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability.Francis Bacon, Of Studies

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I.

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

The Library page: books on the desk with pages a day and progress, a course of study, and finished books on a shelf.
II.

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.

An example course · The Roman Republic
  1. I.SPQR · Mary Beard · book
  2. II.The History of Rome · Mike Duncan · podcast
  3. III.The Storm Before the Storm · Mike Duncan · book
  4. IV.The Political Character of the Classical Roman Republic · Fergus Millar · paper
  5. V.Selected Letters · Cicero · book
A course page: five numbered works with reasons, a week-by-week plan and this week’s minutes.
III.

Real sources, checked where we can

Reading lists are suggested by an AI model. Every book in a course is then looked up in the Open Library catalogue, and each one says whether it was found, wasn’t found or couldn’t be checked, so you know what to check before buying. Papers, lectures, podcasts and articles aren’t checked yet.

IV.

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 streaks count the days you finish your planned reading, and a bookmark, earned by reading ahead, lets you miss a day without losing your streak.

The Progress page: this week against last, hours week by week and personal records.
V.

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 as often as you like.
  • $4.99 a month or $39.99 a year: unlimited courses, about ten a month.
See what each plan includes

Questions

Can I edit a course?
Not yet. Regenerating a course is free and unlimited; editing comes later.
What gets checked?
Books, against the Open Library catalogue. Any book we couldn’t confirm says so.
Is there a mobile app?
Coming soon. The web app does everything today.
More questions

Begin with a book, or a subject.

Notes

  1. 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 ↩
  2. 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 ↩
  3. 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 ↩
  4. 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 ↩
  5. 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 ↩