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Everything you’re learning, in one place.
An article, your slides, your notes, a lecture on YouTube. Add it once. Recitare reads it, finds its ideas and files them in your Recitare Brain while you get on with your day.
Paper · p. 12
Students persist longest when intrinsic motivation drives the task itself.
Slide 4
Week 3: goal setting and performance
Lecture · 12:40
“…an outside reward can start crowding out real interest…”
Your notes
Link to Psych: motivation = wants that direct effort
Your Recitare Brain
- Intrinsic motivation
- Goal setting
- Crowding out
- Motivation
Stuck on the same page again?
Understand difficult material.
Get through difficult reading, and understand it.
Read the original, or listen as every word lights up in a voice you choose. When a sentence will not give, have it explained in plain English, right where it is.
attention-is-all-you-need.pdf
PII redactionWe propose a new simple network architecture, the Transformer, based solely on attention mechanisms, dispensing with recurrence and convolutions entirely.
Ask: What does the model lose, and gain, by dropping recurrence? [Page 1]
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dispensing with recurrence and convolutions entirelyExplain this
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- YouTube lectures
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Ideas stuck in separate courses?
See where your ideas meet.
Recitare finds the ideas in everything you add, notices when two sources mean the same thing, and links what belongs together, across subjects. You learn. Recitare builds the connections.
Psychology
Motivation
The wants or needs that direct behaviour toward a goal.
The same idea, in two subjects
Management
Motivation
Understanding what people need well enough to direct effort toward the organisation’s goals.
What a year of learning can look like
An MBA, as one map.
Ten disciplines, 679 subjects, topics and terms, joined wherever they connect. Your own Recitare Brain grows the same way, from the sources you add, and keeps track of what you learn from them.
Can’t remember where you read it?
Get answers from your own reading.
Ask a question across everything you have added. The answer comes from your sources and names the page, so you can check it.
How does motivation in Psychology relate to motivation in Management?
Your psychology reading describes motivation as the wants or needs that direct behaviour toward a goal. Your management text builds on the same idea: a manager’s job is to understand those needs well enough to direct effort toward the organisation’s goals.
- Psychology reading · p. 2
- Management text · p. 247
Gone by the exam?
Strengthen what matters.
Keep hold of what you learn.
Five minutes, five ideas from your own Recitare Brain. Answer in your own words and get a short note back, grounded in what your sources say, so the ideas that matter are still usable when you need them.
Idea 2 of 5
What is the difference between Planning and Top-Level Planning?
Planning is deciding in advance what to do. Top-level planning is the long-range kind done by senior management.
You got the main idea.
See what your sources say (2)
Think you know it?
Tell it back.
Find out what you really know, from a blank page.
Rereading feels like learning. Recalling without looking is what helps it stay, and it shows you what you actually know. Recitare checks what you tell it against the readings you have added, so you see what stayed with you and where to look for the rest. There is no score.
The study
How much of a passage students remembered a week later
Read it once, then recalled it61%
Read it four times40%
Five minutes after studying, the rereaders were ahead, 83% to 71%, and felt surer they would remember it. A week later, the students who had recalled it remembered half as much again, though they had spent less time with the text.
Tell it back
Management
You recalled 6 of 8 ideas in Management, and 1 partly.
Recalled (6)
- Planning
- Organising
- Leading
- Controlling
- Motivation
- Delegation
Partly there (1)
Span of control. Your sources add: the number of people one manager can direct well.
Still missed (1)
Top-level planning. “The long-range planning done by senior management.” Management text · p. 247
Choose what to test yourself on
A whole course, one topic within it, or a single reading you have added.
Write or say everything you remember
From a blank page, with no hints. Nothing is shown to you until you finish.
See what stayed, and what didn’t
Which ideas came back, which came back only in part, and for each one you missed, the exact passage in your reading, so you know what to go back to.
Starting from zero every term?
Watch your knowledge grow.
Every term builds on the last.
Each source adds ideas, and each idea finds its place. One sample Recitare Brain, from its first week to its first year:
Week 1
3ideas
2 sources · 1 subject
Month 2
12ideas
9 sources · 2 subjects
Month 6
30ideas
24 sources · 3 subjects
Year 1
60ideas
52 sources · 6 subjects
Pricing
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- Add documents, slides, notes and YouTube lectures
- Your Recitare Brain: ideas found, connected and organised for you
- Short reviews of your own ideas
- Tell it back: recall from a blank page, marked against your sources
- Listen with word-by-word highlighting, in any of six voices: 20,000 words to start, then 1,000 words a week
- Ask and explain: 5 questions a day, 3 summaries a day
- Key Concepts study guides: 2 a day
Scholar
For a full course load: everything in Free, with room to learn all month.
- Listening for a month of course reading: 100,000 words (≈ 12–16 papers, or ~11 hrs)
- Ask, explain and summarise without daily limits (fair use)
- All 5 study guide formats
- Audio Overview podcasts (5 / month)
- Email support, and the Chrome extension when it launches
Researcher
For intensive study across a substantial monthly reading load.
- Listening for a full semester’s load: 300,000 words a month (≈ 35+ papers)
- The highest-quality voice, with a tutor that adapts to the material
- Snap-to-Explain for figures and diagrams
- Study Mode questions while you listen, and Ask While Listening
- Smart Cards and 10-minute Sprint Mode
- Audio Overview podcasts (50 / month)
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Is the free plan actually usable, or just a teaser?
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What can I add?
PDFs, Word documents, PowerPoint slides, text files and images, and YouTube lectures that have a transcript. Put a source in a Learning Space and its ideas join your Recitare Brain.
Is this just text-to-speech?
No. Text-to-speech reads a document at you and stops there. Recitare keeps you inside the reading: each word is highlighted as it is spoken, you can pause on a hard passage and ask about it without leaving the page, answers cite the page they came from, and short reviews check whether you can explain what you learned, in your own words.
Will listening on its own actually make me understand the reading?
Listening gets you through material that felt resistant, which matters. But it is the start of the process, not the whole of it. Recitare is built so that listening leads somewhere: clarify what confused you, confirm you can explain it, then prepare from the original source. A summary is not the same as comprehension, and we do not present it as one.
How is asking in Recitare different from asking a general chatbot?
Answers are drawn from your own sources and point to the page they came from, rather than from the open web. Common personal details are removed before your text goes for AI analysis.
Is my data private? Do you train AI on it?
Never. Your documents are yours. Personal details are auto-redacted before AI analysis calls, everything is encrypted in transit and at rest, and every access is logged.
See how we handle your data →Do the early-adopter prices really stay locked?
Yes. Subscribe during early access and your rate stays locked for as long as your subscription remains active. Price rises only ever apply to new subscribers, never to a continuously active plan.
Does it work on my phone?
Recitare runs in any modern browser on desktop and mobile. There is no app to install. A Chrome extension that reads web pages aloud is coming soon.
Which voices and accents are there?
Six lifelike Inworld voices across American, British, and Australian accents, all with word-by-word karaoke highlighting, on every plan.
Can I cancel anytime?
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Why Recitare exists
Most of what we read is gone within weeks. Recitare began in the first year of a PhD, with a reading list that never got shorter, so that what you learn stays with you and builds on itself.
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