Built by someone who kept
forgetting the words he read.

I read a lot in English — articles, documentation, the occasional book. And every few paragraphs I'd hit a word I half-knew. I'd look it up, nod, keep reading… and meet the same word a week later, just as blank as before.

The tools I tried each missed by a little. A dictionary answers once, then the word rots in a list. Anki remembers — but building the cards by hand was more work than the reading, so I never kept it up. Kindle captures words in context beautifully, then locks them inside Kindle. I even ran a dedicated ChatGPT project just to study words — the explanations were good, but with no spaced repetition, everything I “learned” there quietly sank.

So I built the thing I actually wanted: grab the word and its sentence in one keystroke — no card-building — understand it in context, and let spaced repetition echo it back just before I'd forget. Capture + echo. Capecho.

The longer version — and the research that showed me I wasn't the only one — is in Why I built Capecho.