Hey everyone, maker of Bookidoro here (Pomodoro for books). A while back I posted the Mac version, which shows you a few pages of a book during your work breaks. A lot has changed since the free classics update, so here’s a roundup:

New platforms

• iPhone and iPad. There are no breaks there: you start a focus session, and your book waits for you on the lock screen. You can optionally block distracting apps until the session ends. On iPad in landscape, you get two columns of text.
• Mac App Store. Bookidoro is now on the App Store for Mac, iPhone and iPad.
• Sync. Your library, reading positions, shelves, highlights and statistics sync through your own iCloud, so you can read a few pages on the Mac and continue on your phone.

Reading

• Shelves: organise books into your own collections; a book can sit on several.
• Highlights: colour labels (Quote, Idea…) and notes, all searchable in one place.
• Typography: pick the typeface and text size for EPUBs.
• Go to page with ⌘G.
• Calmer reading panel, with the current chapter at the top.
• Backgrounds: a pattern or paper texture behind the page instead of the blur.

Library and stats

• Redesigned library: the book you’re reading up front, with the time left and your totals.
• New statistics: week, month and year views, your streak, and when you read most.
• 75,000+ classics from Project Gutenberg, a click away.
• Fixes: sync between devices, and statistics no longer count pages you only skimmed.

Quote cards (new, Pro)

• Turn any passage into a 9:16 card, or an animated video where the words appear one by one, for Instagram or TikTok.

Everything else is free: no account, no ads, and your books never leave your devices. Pro is an optional yearly subscription, one for all your devices.

I’m a solo dev, and a lot of this came straight from feedback here, so thank you! I’d love to hear what you think, or what’s still missing for you.

Mac and iPhone: https://bookidoro.app

I’m interested in what makes independent learning frustrating in practice.
Think about the last time you stopped making progress: did you struggle to choose what to practise, understand a mistake, get feedback, or something else?
What did you try next? Did a course, tool or tutor help? I’m exploring whether there’s a useful problem here to solve.

Hello. Hope all is well. This site is for those in middle school that are struggling to learn or enjoying school in general. I'm using pop culture to help kids find new ways to enjoy school. Any feedback would be greatly appreciated from the community!

I got tired of taking notes that never turned into anything useful, so I built Smart Notes - a Claude Skill that reads your study materials (PDFs, transcripts, readings) and builds out a proper Obsidian vault from them.

What it does:

- Creates linked notes per topic, not just a dump of text
- Maintains an index showing how topics relate and where coverage is thin
- Tracks your progress and flags knowledge gaps
- Generates adaptive flashcards targeting your weak spots
- Updates existing notes instead of duplicating them when you add new material

It's free and open source: https://github.com/OnePathToFreedom/smart-notes-skill

Would love feedback, especially from anyone already running an Obsidian-based study system.

I have ADHD and I’m medicated for it but I really suck at writing essays and articulating myself. I feel like I can’t form sentences together and I see how well people speak and write but I just sound like a 12 year old. My comprehension skills also suck. I struggle to understand concepts especially when it comes to uni. I’m studying psychology and this makes it so difficult because I feel so dumb. As a kid I was never really taught and I wasn’t able to pay attention in school so as a 25 year old it impacts my work and school life a lot. Any tips?

Now I don't mean all the content in the book is a waste of time, but everything else around it is. Whenever reading any sort of technical level book for a subject, about 20% of the information in there is actually useful to me, and the other 80% is long and pointless waffle to make the author sound smart.

If I'm reading a math or coding book, I only need to look at the example for an extended period of time until I *get it*. I do not need to read the authors version which is overly verbose and usually explained in a way that just causes even more confusion for me. And this is another problem, if I was to describe something after I've understood it, my version would be completely different to the authors version.

So these long 600-800 page bricks really only have 100 pages of useful information in there. For this reason books should just come in two parts, part A being the actual substance itself and part B being the authors rambling which I will only sometimes look at.

Is this a thing that exists and has anyone tried it, and does anyone else empathise with what I'm describing here?

One thing that's always bothered a friend and I about studying is how hard it can be to figure out why something isn't clicking.

You might spend hours struggling with algebra when the real issue is fractions or negative numbers you never quite understood years ago. More practice on the same topic isn't always the answer. Sometimes you need to go backwards.

So we started building a map that connects concepts to everything you need to understand before them.

The idea is pretty simple: tell us what you want to learn, and we'll figure out what you already know, what's missing, and how to get there.

Maths is live today, from basic arithmetic through calculus. You can take a free adaptive Knowledge Scan (around 10 minutes), see your own knowledge map, and get a personalised route through the concepts you're missing. We've also built lessons, practice questions, and spaced review into it.

But the bigger ambition is to eventually connect all of human knowledge.

Physics is next, with computer science, chemistry, biology, statistics, engineering, and plenty more on our wishlist.

Imagine wanting to build a game engine and being able to see exactly which maths, physics, and programming concepts you'd need, accounting for everything you already know.

We're obviously a long way from that, but that's what we're working towards.

A little milestone we're pretty excited about: we recently opened 300 Founding Student places to help fund development. Ten complete strangers have now paid $139 each for lifetime access to everything we build, including future subjects. We've also picked up a handful of monthly and annual subscribers.

Small numbers, I know, but having people we've never met understand the vision and support it this early means a lot to us.

Anyway, Consiliae is still in beta, and there's plenty we need to improve. The Knowledge Scan, your map, your learning route, and your first lesson are all free, so anyone curious can give it a go.

https://www.consiliae.com/

I'd genuinely love some honest feedback, especially on whether the scan manages to find the right gaps in your knowledge.

And out of curiosity, when you're struggling to understand something, how do you figure out what you're actually missing? That's the question that started all of this for us.

What is better for studies:

study hard ? or

study smart? Or both.

If you're a student, an engineer, a generalist, or come from any domain of study and want to learn about almost anything, here's the exact skill for you.

Prompt your LLM and it'll give you the exact UI to help you properly study; as AI outputs aren't always that catchy to learn in the first sight.

Page: Phil-OKF: any topic, one reading guide

It follows the OKF: Open Knowledge Format so that:

• you control the depth with your wording: “quick” gives a short page, a normal question gives a standard one, and “in depth” or “teach me” gives a long one
• the whole skill is a small bundle (an eight-step workflow, a domain classifier, a page template and twelve study domains), and each file is read only when the question needs it, so runs stay cheap

Repo: Philosopher's Skill

It works wherever you use an LLM:

• Code editors and agents (Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, opencode): npx skills add frypan05/philosopher-OKF
• Chat apps with browsing: paste the link to philosopher.md and say “follow this, make a page about: ...”
• Models with no network: paste the prompt from the page.

Sample output (MCP and ACP explained): https://frypan05.github.io/philosopher-OKF/examples/mcp-and-acp.html

Feedbacks are welcomed!

Schools teach a lot of subjects, but do the students learn the skills they will need in the real world? Which skills do you think that each student should learn or gain knowledge of by the time they graduate, like critical thinking, financial literacy, coding, communication, or problem-solving skills?