Show HN: Screvi – Stop Forgetting What You Read

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4 points pedrospective | 3 comments | 16 Oct 24 19:53 UTC | HN request time: 0.673s | source

If you’re anything like me, you read and highlight a lot but always seem to forget most of it. Not only that, but I find myself spending too much time scrolling Twitter and Instagram these days.

I needed an app with similar features, but one that would make me productive instead of feeding me addicting and pointless content.

The usual notion/obsidian workflows are nice, but they get overly complex quick and I end up wasting a lot of time on them. I needed something easy and accessible like a social media app.

So, I built an app that fixes these issues by capturing and transforming my thousands of highlights into a scrollable, Instagram-like feed.

key features

- Sync highlights from Kindle

- Capture physical book highlights

- Save from Twitter

- Transcribe audio notes (so I can add highlights/thoughts while running or walking)

- Feed/Stories system

Let me know what you think! And if you find any bugs or have any ideas, please let me know at support@screvi.com

1. helph67 ◴[16 Oct 24 20:25 UTC] No.41863476[source]▶
A study from University of Waterloo in 2017 found "Reading information aloud to yourself improves memory of materials" https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/12/171201090940.h...
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2. pedrospective ◴[16 Oct 24 20:41 UTC] No.41863647[source]▶
Yep. That's actually a secondary benefit of the transcribe feature. You can read a highlight out loud, instead of highlighting it the usual way