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How it worksToday

Ten minutes a day, planned for you

Today is your daily session. It turns everything else in Langrit into one short plan you can finish.

Five short steps on the same words: read them in a story, notice new words, review your cards, write a few sentences and fix today's mistakes.

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Your day, in five short steps

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  1. Read
  2. Notice
  3. Review
  4. Write
  5. Fix

Today's short story

Morgen ga ik naar mijn werk. Ik neem de fiets.

Tomorrow I am going to work. I take the bike.

How to use it well

  1. Pick a fixed moment

    Open Today at the same time each day, for example after your morning coffee.

  2. Go from top to bottom

    Each step feeds the next one. The highlighted step is the one to do now.

  3. Stop when it is done

    Ten to fifteen minutes is enough. Coming back tomorrow matters more than doing extra today.

Why it works

Small daily habits stick

In a study of how habits form, people who repeated a small action every day found it became automatic over time, and missing a single day did not undo their progress.

Source:Lally et al., 2010, European Journal of Social Psychology

Mixing tasks helps you remember

In studies on mixed practice, learners who switched between kinds of problems remembered more a week later than learners who did one kind at a time. Today mixes reading, recall and writing on the same words.

Source:Rohrer & Taylor, 2007, Instructional Science

The research behind it

Peer-reviewed studies this tool is built on. Tap a title to read the paper.

  1. Real-life studyLally, van Jaarsveld, Potts & Wardle, 2010
    How are habits formed: Modelling habit formation in the real world

    European Journal of Social Psychology

    What they did
    96 volunteers repeated one new daily behaviour, such as a walk or a glass of water, for 12 weeks and rated how automatic it felt.
    What they found
    The behaviour became automatic after 66 days on average, with a wide range between people. Missing one day did not undo the progress.
    Read the paper doi.org/10.1002/ejsp.674
  2. Review of many studiesGollwitzer & Sheeran, 2006
    Implementation intentions and goal achievement: A meta-analysis of effects and processes

    Advances in Experimental Social Psychology

    What they did
    Combined 94 tests with more than 8,000 people who made plans of the form "when X happens, I will do Y".
    What they found
    Deciding when and where to act made people clearly more likely to follow through than only setting the goal.
    Read the paper doi.org/10.1016/S0065-2601(06)38002-1
  3. ExperimentRohrer & Taylor, 2007
    The shuffling of mathematics problems improves learning

    Instructional Science

    What they did
    Students practised several kinds of problems, either mixed together or in blocks of one kind.
    What they found
    Mixed practice felt harder, and the mixed group did much better on a test one week later.
    Read the paper doi.org/10.1007/s11251-007-9015-8

The mistake most people make

Skipping straight to the step you like

Do this instead

Reading only, or reviewing only, leaves gaps. The steps are short so you can finish all five.

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