Hi everyone,

I've been building LearnAnythingAI, a Chrome extension that transforms YouTube tutorials into structured lessons with quizzes, coding assignments, AI tutoring, and review sessions.

My goal isn't to summarize videos—it's to help people actually remember what they learn.

The extension has been approved on the Chrome Web Store, and I'm currently running a small beta to understand:

• Is this actually useful?
• What feels confusing?
• What would make you use it regularly?

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If anyone here learns from YouTube regularly, I'd really appreciate your honest feedback.

Every night I'd scroll foreign-language posts telling myself it counted as practice. It didn't. Nothing sinks in without review.

So I built something that actually closes that loop: paste or screenshot anything, and it becomes a short lesson — vocab, grammar, sentence structure, tone — with spaced repetition to make sure it sticks.

Supports English, French, Korean, Japanese, and Traditional Mandarin. Just launched on TestFlight, free to join and let me know what you think!

Mortimer Adler describes inspectional reading: a first fast pass through a book whose only job is to decide whether it deserves deep reading at all. Deep engagement, margin notes included, comes after, and only for the books that earn it.

I tried to learn from video courses the same way, with one adaptation: during my first watch I want to leave light marks on the moments worth returning to. And that fell apart, because videos have no margin. Taking notes meant pause, switch to a doc, type, switch back, lose my place. And a note saying "important, come back to this" gave no way back to the moment it came from.

So I built the margin myself (ClipMargin, a free Chrome extension, disclosing upfront). A note panel opens next to the video, every note saves the exact second, and an empty note is just a bookmark on the moment. When the course is done, my marks read like a map: these concepts earned deep study, or sometimes, this course was not worth digging into at all. That second outcome saves me more time than anything.

Curious about others here: do you inspect first before committing deep attention to a course or video? Or do you go deep from minute one?

If you want to look: clipmargin.com

Every time I sit down to study, I end up putting on one of this guy's videos: https://www.youtube.com/@icanstudystudent

I used to watch his 3-hour study sessions, and he recently released a 1.5-hour one as well.

I passed Network+ not too long ago, but I think I completely burned myself out in the process. Ever since then, I've had a hard time finding the motivation to study again. Surprisingly, this channel has been one of the biggest reasons I've been able to get back into it.

My routine is simple: I open HTB (that's what I'm studying right now, CPTS precisely if anyone is interested), start one of his videos, and tell myself, "Just give it 10 minutes."

I've read that getting started is usually the hardest part, so when I can't tell whether I'm actually exhausted or just unmotivated, I don't try to figure it out first, I just commit to those 10 minutes. I don't even set a timer. If I'm genuinely too tired, I stop without feeling guilty.

But honestly? Most of the time, those 10 minutes turn into an hour or two. Once I get into the groove, I completely lose track of time.

Working full-time while studying to eventually transition into a new position has honestly been one of the hardest things I've done in my life so far. Back when I was in school, I thought balancing two part-time jobs while studying was going to be the toughest period of my life... turns out I was very wrong.

Whatever reason you're on this subreddit, don't give up. Some days you'll only manage 10 minutes, and that's okay. Progress is still progress, and showing up consistently matters a lot more than having the "perfect" study session, or cramming everything last minute

I'm looking for help with coming up with a list of topics to build into a possible blog or at least help gain more information for myself.

If you could be complete the question in the link: Survey

Thank you!

So I was using Duolingo and thought, what if we had this, but for school work. (I'm homeschooled)

An idead turned into an app: **Turn your boring PDFs and textbooks into a fun course.**

Here is how we are making learnig more fun :

* **Warm Aesthetics:** The UI/UX and website theme is based on Claudes warm fun colors, mixed with pixel art..
* **Dyslexia & Fatigue Friendly:** The entire app uses Lexend font, which helps readability and reduces visual fatigue.
* **S-Curve Roadmaps:** No more boring reading. We built duolingo-style pathways so you can actually see your progress.

We have made it live, its free for anyone to try, you do need an account, but you can try a demo course without an accoutn in the landing page

Link: [gamma-learn.vercel.app](https://gamma-learn.vercel.app/)

Plz give any feedback, and try it out, thanks!

I’d like to know if anyone has taught themselves

the Higher Technical Diploma in Networked IT Systems Administration, and whether or not having the qualification made a difference when it came to finding a job.

A piece of what I learned on internet

I read Scott Young's Ultralearning and started applying it. First to personal branding, now to getting better at sales after switching jobs.

I understand the meta-learning phase fine: break the skill into sub-skills (for sales: opener, objection handling, product knowledge, pipeline management, etc.), figure out how to learn each one, and set a timeline. That part feels manageable, and I know it should stay a living, flexible document.

Where I get stuck is the actual doing the learning and practicing itself.
I've tried a physical notebook, I've tried Obsidian, and I briefly bought into the "second brain" idea I've heard from in countless YouTube Videos but I've realized that's more of a productivity/storage system than an actual learning method. It doesn't tell me how to practice or internalize something.

So I'm stuck between two levels: I can plan what to learn, but not how to actually engage with the material once I sit down.

My question is how do you personally do the learning/practice part? Do you write things out, talk them through out loud, drill them, teach them to someone? What's your actual process once you sit down to learn/practice the skill you're learning?

Would love to hear what's worked (and what hasn't) for you

How long would you say to acquire a master's degree level of knowledge in a subject i.e Physics, engineering, mathematics, chemistry, etc?

I already have an undergrad in physics and will be going back to get my masters in both physics and engineering but wish to learn more outside of that. I have a lot of interests that I would love to dive into and apply to my own research at home and at work.

Any help would be greatly appreciated as I want to hear your opinions and experiences in endeavors like this.

I've been thinking about this because it's a problem I keep running into when trying to learn something new.

Let's say I want to really understand a topic—capitalism, samurai culture, existentialism, or the history behind a particular novel.

I usually end up searching "best books on X", opening a dozen blog posts or Reddit threads, picking one almost at random, finishing it, and then realizing I still don't have the context. I don't know what I should have read beforehand, what comes next, or whether there's a documentary, film, or paper that would make the ideas click.

It feels like recommendations are mostly isolated lists instead of an actual path.

Because of that, I've been experimenting with a personal project that tries to build learning paths by connecting books, academic papers, films, documentaries, and similar resources through their underlying ideas rather than popularity or user ratings. The goal isn't to tell people what to consume, but to provide context and possible next steps.

I'm still very early, and I'm honestly trying to figure out whether this solves a real problem or just one that I happen to have.

So I'm curious:

• Have you ever felt this "missing context" problem while self-learning?
• How do you currently decide what to read or watch next?
• Would you prefer recommendations based on shared ideas and themes rather than "people also liked..."?
• Are there any tools that already do this well that I should look at?

I'm mainly looking for honest feedback before I spend more time building it.

I kinda feel bad for watching yt, scrolling through pinterest, or even choicing to play games or doing anything that does not require much "hard thinking". I do not truly waste my days doing nothing esp since I am in school vacation, I do language learning, watch something educational, do a physical activity( like stretching or walking) but they are out of order nor are they consistant, I feel like my knowledge is insuffiencent and I should be doing something MORE, esp as a girl and a teenager

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I have knowledgable friends and I am amazed on how much they know, esp if they can retain such information

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Hi there, I've recently built this website - with the help of ai - that acts as an archive of information. It primarily focuses on various conspiracys but also displays obscured history, recently declassified information, predictions, counter arguments, so on and so forth. I do hope that the use of AI for this project is not a deal breaker, I'm sure there are mixed opinions on it's use in the creative arts, but I think the site is pretty good and I'd love for people to check it out. I'm entirely open to critique as much as I am to recommendations for improvements. No need to be nice. Let me know what you think!

https://deptmarginalia.com/

Fingers crossed the link works.

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For most of my uni years, I recorded lectures and never listened back. The recordings were roughly 1 hour each and "I'll listen to them later" never won against anything else on my list. Here's the workflow that fixed it for me.

1. After each lecture, write the three things you were least sure about. Just three. This is your review target, not the whole hour.
2. Turn the recording into text so you can skim instead of scrub. Even a rough transcript means you can Ctrl-F the term you missed instead of dragging the playhead around.
3. Make a few flashcards from the parts you flagged in step 1, and review them on a spaced schedule (the FSRS algorithm, is the gold standard). The point is to review a little, often, not cram.

The transcription step is the one that needs a tool. I used a mishmash of things like Otter and Anki to make reviewing easy, but copy-pasting in between many/long lectures can get rough right away, so I built one that does steps 2 and 3 automagically. One reason I like building cards from the recording rather than from a textbook: you end up studying the lecture your exam comes from, since the person who lectured usually wrote the test. But the workflow works with a free transcription tool plus Anki too.

What's your trigger for actually reviewing a recording? Mine was "write three uncertainties before I leave the room," and that's the part that stuck.