280 WPM
Expertise without the syllabus.
What experts know is already written down, in papers, reviews and textbooks never meant to be easy. Gwion helps you through them, and helps what you learn stay with you.
Free to start. Runs in the browser.
What experts know is already written down, in papers, reviews and textbooks never meant to be easy. Gwion helps you through them, and helps what you learn stay with you.
Free to start. Runs in the browser.
The material was written for people who already know the field. Gwion is for everyone else, whatever the deadline.
Work through the course reading section by section, test yourself on each, and see which parts need another pass before the day.
Get through the papers, keep each argument straight, and still have them when the qualifying exam or the literature review comes.
A simplified rewrite and a map of how the ideas connect bridge the vocabulary you never had a course in.
Clinical papers, regulatory filings, technical reports: work through the substance before the meeting, not just the summary.
Learn from the primary literature, in the order you choose, without enrolling in anything.
Get through the papers you saved for later, and keep hold of the ones that matter.
Understanding a difficult text takes several kinds of work. Gwion is built around all five.
The word stream carries you through the argument in the order it was made, at a pace you can change mid-sentence. The paper's own text, sections, figures and references stay beside it.
Each section as key points, a simplified rewrite, or a map of how its ideas connect. Select any sentence that loses you and ask for an explanation, a simpler version, or a memory anchor.
Questions and flashcards drawn from the section in front of you. You answer before you look: research on the testing effect has repeatedly found that recalling something strengthens memory more than reading it again.
On a paid plan, mix questions or flashcards from several sections (up to four on Student, ten on Pro), so each one first asks which idea it is about, as an exam does, or map how a whole chapter fits together.
Mark each answer got it or missed it, and Gwion learns what is holding.
Gwion keeps track as you study. Your answers, and a short check when a section comes due, show what is holding. Each estimate decays on a forgetting curve, and every section you have studied sits on one timeline, with what to review today at the top. Each well-timed review lets the next one wait longer.
The curve is the coach's own: retrievability R(t) = (1 + 19t/81S)−0.5, the function used by the FSRS scheduler, with illustrative stabilities. The shape comes from memory research; the coach is open that its numbers are estimates.
Highlights, notes, bookmarks and the study material you choose collect in one place, each a click from its source, and the review sheet turns them into a page you can print.
And for material as it actually arrives: scanned PDFs whose mathematics has turned to debris are re-read from the page image, and the equations restored.
Open Gwion in your phone's browser and add it to your home screen, and it opens like an app. Turn on Read aloud, lock the screen, and keep listening on a walk or a commute, with play, pause and skip on the lock screen.
Your library, notes and highlights live in your browser. Our servers see only what a tool needs, when it needs it, and your documents are neither stored nor used to train anyone's model.
Reading, notes and the study coach are free and unlimited. The plans are for the tools that run on our servers.
Enough to try every tool on a real paper.
For a full course load.
For learning a field in earnest.
Prices include tax. Billed monthly; cancel whenever you like. Allowances renew on the first of each month. A first payment is refundable within 14 days if the plan has barely been used; the terms have the details.
In Welsh legend, Gwion Bach was a servant boy set to stir a cauldron the sorceress Ceridwen had brewed for a year and a day, to make her son wise. Three drops splashed onto his thumb. He put it to his mouth, and knew everything there was to know. He was reborn as Taliesin, the greatest of the bards.
The three drops are in our logo. The cauldron is the literature. You stand where Gwion stood.
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