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…