Tallbook

Lecture notes that revise themselves

Tallbook turns what you write in lectures into revision cards, and links each idea to where it came up before.

Start a notebook See how it works

Free for three notebooks. No card needed.

From lecture to revision without the copying out

A hand-drawn line chart from 1885: a curve rises steeply over the first two days of a memory test, then levels off above a dashed line.
Hermann Ebbinghaus, Über das Gedächtnis, 1885. Fig. 2.

  1. Write as you listen.

    Plain text, headings and quick lists. No templates to fill in.

  2. Tallbook spots the ideas.

    Each heading and each definition becomes a card with the question on the front.

  3. Revise for ten minutes a day.

    Cards come back the day before you'd forget them, not all at once in exam week.

Algorithms / Week 6 Saved on this laptop
Week 6 · Algorithms
Recursion
A function that calls itself on a smaller version of the problem.
Needs a base case, or it never stops.
Base case
The input small enough to answer directly.

What it does with one page of notes

Three cards from five lines. You wrote nothing extra.

Built for the way modules overlap

Links across modules.
Write "recursion" in Algorithms and Tallbook shows where you met it in C++ last term.
Works offline.
Notes save on your laptop first and sync when the Wi-Fi comes back.
Diagrams from text.
Type a list of steps and get a flowchart you can drag into place.
Exam mode.
Pick a date and Tallbook only shows the cards you need before it.
Oak drawers of a library card catalogue, each with a label of subject headings; one drawer is pulled out to show its index cards.
Subject catalogue, University Library of Graz.

Free to start, cheap to keep

Cancel any time from settings. Your notes stay yours and export as plain text.

Questions

A typed library catalogue card standing in an open drawer, with coloured tabs marking the cards behind it.
Catalogue cards, Indiana State Library.

Do I have to change how I take notes? No. Write the way you already do. Headings and "X is Y" sentences make the best cards.

Can I bring my old notes? Yes. Paste them in or import Markdown and Word files, and Tallbook makes cards from those too.

What happens to my notes if I stop paying? You keep all of them. You go back to three active notebooks, and the rest become read-only.

Does it work for maths? Yes, with LaTeX in notes and on cards.

Your next lecture is the first page

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