Turn
YouTube
into
interactive lessons
AI-powered tools for self-directed learners. Set your own learning objectives and create interactive lessons.
Enter any topic you want to learn about. We'll use it to generate interactive lessons.
How does it work?
🕹️ Generate Interactive Content
Start by turning your existing resources into interactive learning materials. Upload articles, link to web pages, or paste text to automatically generate flashcards, quizzes, and fill-in-the-blank exercises.
Our AI tools help remove the tedium of creating learning materials while still giving you full control to curate and customize the results, ensuring the highest quality content for your learning journey.
📚 Learn Through Interactive Lessons
Use your generated materials to create engaging learning sessions that reinforce knowledge through active recall and spaced repetition principles.
Test your understanding with various interactive formats and get immediate feedback on your progress, making learning more effective and engaging than passive consumption of content.
🗺️ Build Curriculum & Track Progress
Organize your learning materials into a structured curriculum that aligns with your personal learning goals and target skill levels. Set objectives, define milestones, and track your progress over time.
The built-in tracking system helps you stay on course and motivated by visualizing your learning journey and celebrating your achievements as you master new skills and knowledge.
The secret sauce is that it's all self-directed. You decide on your own learning objectives and transform content into knowledge you can actually use.
How is this different?
🎯 Efficacy Is Everything
ef·fi·ca·cy: the ability to produce a desired or intended result.
AI tools are currently in the "Whoa, cool." phase. You can use NotebookLM to turn a research paper into a podcast. But no one seems to be asking if chatting with a PDF is the best way to learn.
The singular goal for interact is to focus entirely on efficacy. To find the most effective learning strategies and practically apply them.
"Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn't stop to think if they should."
🌊 Find the Signal in the Noise
There's a sea of content out there these days. It's becoming increasingly difficult to separate the signal from the noise. The goal for interact is to turn it into knowledge you can actually use.
🎮 Engaging and Rigorous
We're all competing with video games and cat videos. So learning has to be engaging. The good news is learning is already fun; and we just have to not mess it up.
But the goal is not to sacrifice rigor for engagement.
"That's what games are, in the end. Teachers. Fun is just another word for learning." — A Theory of Fun for Game Design
Who is it for?
We're actively figuring this out. The goal right now is to:
- Choose a couple of real, practical learning projects.
- Build tools to make genuine progress on the learning goals for those projects.
The tools are designed for anyone learning something new, but geared towards people that prefer learning with interactive content.
- 👨💻 Professionals picking up new skills for their career.
- 📚 Lifelong learners exploring new hobbies and interests.
- 👨🎓 Students learning new subjects.
- 📝 Exam preppers looking for a better way to study.
If you want to help set the direction, please get in touch and I'd love to hear from you. 🥰
FAQ
Yes! You can add the app to your home screen to use it on your phone or tablet.
It's currently built as a PWA (Progressive Web Application), but the plan is to build native versions of the application soon.
Interactives are currently generated with custom prompts to OpenAI's GPT-4o model.
But the plan is to make this configurable so you can choose from different models.
No! The AI features are designed to remove some of the tedium. But the AI generator is just a starting point. The goal is to create the highest quality interactives that genuinely help you learn material.
There's built-in tooling to edit and curate generated content. And you can manually enter your own content too so you don't have to rely on AI at all if you want to quickly add things like flashcards, fill-in-the-blanks, and multiple choice quizzes.
That's what I thought too. But I read How to Remember Anything Forever-ish from Nicky Case. And Augmenting Long-term Memory from Michael Nielsen. And now I use them every day.
Yes. My goal is to make this completely free for students if I can earn enough to survive. Email me at bijan@createwith.org and I'd be happy to send a discount code or free access depending on your situation. If you want to support the work I'm doing, check out my Patreon page.
The foundation is built with the Elixir programming language. And the Phoenix LiveView framework is the secret sauce that helps ship so many features so quickly. There's also a lot of JavaScript and Tailwind CSS for usability and styling. The application is hosted on Fly.io.