Vocady

Notes are mostly empty. That is the problem worth solving.

Vocady is a vocabulary app built on one finding: the effect of note-taking sits in the structure of the note and in retrieving it later, not in the act of writing. These are the notes we keep while building it.

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    Where words go missing

    Students capture 91% of a lecture's top-level ideas and 11% of the details. Vocabulary lives in that 11%. Here is where the words go, and what actually brings them back.
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    About Vocady — who makes it and what it is built on

    Vocady is a handwriting-first vocabulary app for iOS and Android. What it does, the studies its design rests on, and the person who builds it.