I m building Recordar Palabras, a small web + iPhone app for words you choose yourself. I m curious about the habit, not asking for votes:
When you meet a useful word while reading, what do you do so it is still available a week later?
A simple loop has worked well for me: capture one word, hide the definition, try to recall it, then review it when it is due. The app keeps definitions manual or generated in the active language and does not publish decks or progress.
If you learn in Spanish or English, what breaks in your current workflow? Concrete examples would help shape the launch.
I built Recordar Palabras after noticing that saving every unfamiliar word made review less useful, not more.
The rule that has worked best for me is to keep the queue small enough to finish: save words that matter in context, write or generate a concise definition, and stop adding new ones when reviews start piling up.
How do you decide which words are worth keeping and when a vocabulary list has become too large?
Disclosure: I m the maker of Recordar Palabras, which launches here on August 11.
Recordar Palabras is a bilingual spaced-repetition app for vocabulary you choose yourself. Save a word from reading, study or everyday life, add your own definition or generate one in the active app language, and review it only when it is due. The web and iPhone apps keep the workflow small and private: no public decks, no forced course, and no shared words or progress.
