I built an app to fight the feeling that I'm forgetting how to think
This is going to sound a little dramatic but bear with me.
Somewhere in the last couple of years I noticed my brain getting lazy. Why learn how something works when I can just ask an AI and move on? It's efficient, sure. But I started catching myself knowing nothing. Not the shape of a topic, not the why behind it, just a vague memory that I'd outsourced it. The knowledge would pass through me and leave nothing behind.
I didn't want the cure to be "go read a 400-page book." I love the idea of deep reading way more than I actually do it. What I actually wanted was something in between scrolling and studying. Quick, focused breakdowns of a single topic I could absorb in a few minutes and actually keep.
So I built Learnimo for myself.
The idea is simple: bite-sized topic breakdowns instead of giant book-reads. You pick something you're curious about, you get a clean breakdown, and the point is to come away actually understanding the thing, not just having seen it. You can make your own topics, share them, and fork anyone else's to make it your own. AI helps generate and shape the content, but the goal is the opposite of mindless. It's about putting knowledge back into your head instead of offloading it.
It started as a personal anti-atrophy tool. I'm putting it out there in case anyone else feels the same low-grade dread that we're all slowly forgetting how to learn.
It's on iOS, Android, and web: learnimo.co
Happy to answer anything. Would genuinely love to hear how other people are dealing with this. Am I alone here?