Why I built Capecho
I kept looking up the same English words and forgetting them by the next page. Dictionaries, Anki, and Kindle each missed by a little — so I built the capture-to-review loop I actually wanted.
Field notes on learning vocabulary in context, explaining words with AI, capturing from any screen, and making spaced repetition actually stick.
I kept looking up the same English words and forgetting them by the next page. Dictionaries, Anki, and Kindle each missed by a little — so I built the capture-to-review loop I actually wanted.
The reason most people quit flashcards isn't review — it's the tedious card-making in front of it. Capture can remove that step entirely.
A word on a flashcard and the same word in a sentence are not the same thing to your memory. Here's why context is what makes vocabulary stick.
You don't forget new words because you're bad at memorizing. You forget them because you meet them once and never see them again. Here's the loop that fixes it.