What pimReader Does, in One Page
pimReader is a reader that turns what you read into what you know. This page names every main feature, says what each one is for, and links to the guide that shows it in use. Start with the section that matches what you are trying to do.
pimReader does one thing in several steps: it takes material you would read anyway — a book, an article, a feed — and carries the useful part of it through to long-term memory. Every feature below serves one step of that path. Each section links to the guide that shows it in use.
One library for everything you read
Books in EPUB, PDF, TXT, HTML and Markdown. Web pages saved and cleaned down to their text for offline reading. Feeds from RSS, Atom, OPDS catalogues, X accounts and Telegram channels, with OPML import and export so a feed list is never locked in. All of it opens in the same reader and turns up in the same search.
Why it matters: a search, a dictionary or a review schedule is only as good as what it can see. One place means every tool below works on all of your material at once. → One Library for Books, Articles and Feeds
Words translated above the line
Reading in a language you are learning, unfamiliar words carry a small translation printed directly above them. Tap a word for the full dictionary entry, which opens over the page and closes back to the same place. Select a phrase and its words are translated together, so an idiom reads as one thing.
Why it matters: the reason learners stop reading is the lookups, not the reading. When a lookup costs nothing, you read at volume. → How to Learn a Language by Reading
Know which words you know
Mark a word as known and it stops being glossed. Over a few weeks the page itself shows your vocabulary: glossed words are what you still need. A frequency-based estimate puts a number on your vocabulary size, which answers whether a text is right for you before you commit an evening to it.
→ Learning Path: Spanish From Zero to Reading a Novel
Tell the Mentor a goal, get a study
Open Ask AI and describe what you want in plain words — the goal, the deadline, the time you have per day. The Mentor asks the few questions that shape a plan and proposes a study: a sequence of lessons sized to the goal. Nothing is created until you approve it, and you can push back until it fits.
Why it matters: a plan built around your goal and your hours is one you can keep. → From a Book to a Study Plan: How pimReader Actually Teaches
Lessons that become real books
Each lesson can write its own material: a lesson book you read like any other book, an exercise book of practice work, a quiz, and flashcards of the vocabulary or facts it is built on. A lesson book takes about ninety seconds to write and is saved to your library. The Studies view shows each lesson's status — Not started, In progress, Completed.
→ Studying for a Professional Certification
Flashcards in one tick
Tick Memorize on a word and the card is written for you from the sentence you found it in. Select a passage, a table or a note and ask for a set of cards; you keep the good ones from a preview and discard the rest. Every card is filed under the book or article it came from, one tap from the page.
Why it matters: people agree flashcards work and make almost none, because making them is tedious. Remove the tedium and the habit forms. → Turn Any Article, Book, or Note Into Flashcards
FSRS decides when you review
Reviews are scheduled by FSRS, which models how quickly you forget each item rather than applying one interval to everything. You rate each card Again, Hard, Good or Easy, and each button shows the interval it will set before you press it. Items you know drift out to months; items you don't come back tomorrow.
Why it matters: a few minutes a day holds everything you have kept, and the load shrinks as the model learns what you actually know. → Why We Switched to FSRS
Practise in sentences at your level
Recognising a word is not the same as using it. Practice generates material from your own words at a level you choose: Develop Fluency writes example sentences, Memorize Words writes short phrases built to stick, Practice Dialogs runs a conversation line by line. Ten minutes after a reading session turns recognition into production.
→ How to Learn a Language by Reading
Speak, and be corrected
Speaking practice runs an entirely spoken session: it asks about the words that are due, you answer aloud, and the results go into the same review schedule. For a single phrase, pronunciation feedback shows what you were asked to say, what was heard, your phrase corrected, and a score out of 100.
Why it matters: speaking is a separate skill, and most self-taught learners never practise it because it needs another person. This needs nobody. → Speaking Practice Without a Tutor
Find it again by meaning
Semantic search finds a passage by what it means, across books, saved articles and notes together, even when it never uses your words. A busy feed can be sorted by relevance to a topic you name, and after a few weeks pimReader can build a recommendation list from what you actually read.
→ Staying Current in Your Field Without Drowning
Notes that remember their source
Select a passage and save it as a note, with your own comment and tags. Notes live in folders beside your books, and any note can become a flashcard later — you do not have to decide at capture time. From the card you can walk back to the page and read the sentence around it.
→ How to Actually Remember a History Book
When there is a deadline
For an exam, give the Mentor the syllabus and the date and ask for a plan weighted the way the exam weights its sections. Hand it your written answers for feedback against the rubric. Use speaking sessions for the oral part, and keep the last two weeks for timed practice rather than new material.
→ Learning Path: Passing a B2 Exam in 90 Days
Where to start
- Learning a language: open a book in it with the glosses on, and read the first page. Then the reading guide.
- Reading to remember — any subject: save one note from the chapter you are on and turn it into a card. Then the history-book guide.
- Working toward a date: take a timed practice test today, then the exam guide or the certification guide.
- Drowning in articles: import your feeds and sort by one topic you care about. Then the staying-current guide.
Every guide above starts from a feature on this page, so wherever you begin, the rest is one link away.