Learning Line by Line

One of the new apps that I’ve added to my morning routine is a very simple one called “ LineByLine “ (I say “app”, but I think it’s just that website — no mobile app).

While Anki is fantastic for learning atomic pieces of data (countries, names, facts, etc), it’s not great for memorizing long pieces of text, and that’s where LineByLine comes in. If you want to remember a short speech, a poem, or some other bit of text, LineByLine helps walk you through it.

Suppose, for example, that you wanted to memorize the US Pledge of Allegiance. We’d start by pasting it in, paying careful attention to line breaks, as those are treated as separate chunks of text. I’d do it something like this:

Now, when I go to review it, it’ll start by just showing me what’s there with just a few letters missing, like this:

Over time, it removes more and more from each section:

Eventually, it just walks you through with blank lines. If you make any mistakes, just let it know and it’ll help you work on that section.

Use cases

To be fair, I’m not using it for very much yet. So far I’m learning the Preamble of…