arborized
A study method that turns what you read and watch into thinking of your own. Mark what matters, dig into what you do not understand yet, and follow one idea into the next.
Join ArborizedThe method
Highlighting a page is easy. Studying starts when you decide what matters, put it in your own words, work out what you still do not understand, and connect one idea to the next.
Arborized gives you a method for doing exactly that, and the structure to keep going deeper.
Not everything deserves the same weight. Three colours, and only three, so you have to choose instead of painting the whole page.
Write why it mattered while you still remember why, in your words and not the book's. And when a chapter ends, say it back shorter, the way you understood it.
Write the question where it came up, and go after it right there: expand the passage, look up the word, see who has answered it before. What you find gets written next to the question, and both stay.
A name, a date, a word you do not know: open it without losing your place, get the context you need, and follow the connections that matter.
What you choose to keep becomes a page you write yourself. Open the material a year later and you do not start over: you read your page and go straight to what you need.
Review built from what you marked, wrote and asked, never from someone else's deck.
Nobody starts able to concentrate for an hour. Begin with twenty-five minutes, add five when you are ready. Concentration, curiosity and the eye for connections are skills, and this is how they grow.
Studying happens on a computer, in Chrome or Edge. A screen big enough to work on, your files staying on your own machine, and the phone somewhere it cannot interrupt you.
What you work on
Your subjects. Your curiosity. Your own interests.
A subject you are taking. A book you cannot stop thinking about. A question that came from nowhere and stayed. Something you need for work, or something you simply want to understand properly.
Arborized does not hand you another pile of content to get through, and it does not decide what is worth learning. You decide that, and then you bring whatever material helps you work through it.
Your files stay on your computer. Your marks, notes, questions and connections stay together in Arborized.
Reading leaves a mark.Studying leaves a record.
What lasts
The book ends. The video finishes. The term is over. The notebook closes and the PDF sinks into a folder nobody opens again.
Weeks later you remember that something mattered, but not quite what it was, or what you thought about it at the time.
The valuable part was never the file. It was what you noticed, questioned and connected while working through it.
Arborized keeps that thinking attached to what sparked it, ready for whatever you understand next.
What you build
Your subjects change. Your interests change. The question you cannot let go of this year is not the one you had two years ago. Arborized gives every one of them somewhere to connect.
Folders you name, indexes you write, questions you take further every time you come back to them. One subject can reach into another, and what you understood in one place is there when you need it in the next.
Nothing here was built to expire. It was built to expand. A year from now, what you worked through today is still yours, in your words, and open to more.
Free while we are building it. Chrome or Edge, on a computer.