projects / study-hall

Study Hall

Drop in any course, video or PDF, and get a study loop back that makes it stick.

Customer

Working professionals taking online courses to grow in their careers, who want to remember the material months later, not just finish it.

Problem

People watch a lesson, nod along, and forget most of it within a week. Courses are built to be consumed, not retained, and nothing brings back the parts you missed.

Outcome & measures

Drop files into a folder. The app transcribes them, organizes them into a course, and runs each lesson as a loop: prime questions, watch or read, a quiz, then spaced review of what you got wrong.

  • Any file I drop in becomes a browsable course with the full study loop
  • A daily review queue built from what I missed
  • Answers to my questions cite the lesson they came from

What's next · Dec 2026

Pick up new files on its own instead of waiting for me to press sync.

Why I built it

I had a growing library of online courses and a poor record of remembering them. I wanted the study habits I know work, priming, quizzing and spaced review, applied automatically.

How it came together

It began as a coach for one set of course transcripts, then grew a video and quiz loop, then became general: any video, audio, PDF or text file I drop in gets transcribed locally and turned into lessons.

What I learned

Retention is a separate job from applying what you learned. I split them on purpose: this app helps me remember, and a different tool helps me use the material on real problems.