Keep the shopping-app loop. Swap the busywork for learning.
PRELIMINARY · READ, RECALL, GROW · READING APP · LEARNING MODE
General notes
- 01Shopping apps perfected a daily loop: nurture a plant, earn water with small tasks, watch a bar creep toward a reward. The tasks are hollow.
- 02Keep the loop exactly. Make the action read a page and prove you understood it. Every watering is a recall rep.
- 03Under the garden: active recall and spaced repetition. The game is not paint on studying. The studying is the game input.
the studying is the game.
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Shopping apps have perfected a daily loop. I want to keep the loop and change what it is for.
You nurture a plant. You earn water by doing small tasks. A bar creeps toward a reward. You come back tomorrow because the plant will wilt if you do not. The tasks are hollow: tap this, watch that, share this with three friends.
Here is the idea I am building into a reading app. Keep that loop exactly. Make the one action that earns water this: read a page and prove you understood it. Every watering is a recall rep.
Under the garden is a real learning engine, not a quiz toy. Active recall: a question after each page, not re-reading. Spaced repetition: what you got wrong comes back at the right interval, and watering your grove each day is the due-review session. A mastery score you can watch climb.
Three proven models, pointed at one thing. The language-app streak. The flashcard scheduler that makes things stick. The shopping-app garden that survives a boring day. None of them alone is the product.
It is stamped PRELIMINARY, and on a drawing that means exactly what it says: not for construction yet.
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- Sheet 025 · The audio never leaves the phone. That is the whole architecture.