How it works.

Enter flashcards
... or use a friend's. YoYoBrain.com has tools to turn your notes into flashcards and invites your friends to help you.

Use the Learning Wizard
Tell YoYoBrain.com how soon you need to learn - the ideal pace of learning is automatically calculated to get you the results you want in as little time as possible.

YoYoBrain Works With Yo' Brain
The learning wizard drills are simple and easy - yet they ensure you learn as quickly as possible, then keep that information in yo' brain as long as you want.

YoYo Brain is building a worldwide community of learners with tools that will transform learning by making it easier and faster for everyone to acquire knowledge.

Mastery Not Drudgery

Knowledge is a combination of facts and an understanding of the relationships between different facts. The acquisition of facts is accelerated by the basic idea of the flash card. YoYo Brain provides flash cards and a critical component: a way to organize them.

Each card will contain a single fact that is needed to do well on a test or increase your knowledge that excites you. These cards can be simple text, images, sounds or a combination of all three.

Simply review the information you are forgetting - not what you already know.

Research shows we rapidly forget the first time we try to learn new information. However, every time you successfully review a fact or relationship, you retain the information longer. By tracking how many times you've already reviewed information and how well you currently remember it, you can dramatically reduce the time required to study.

The Power of a Global Community

The community of learners adds facts to the database and organizes them. Academic subjects, courses and interests are easily shared using tools that have proven successful all over the Web. By tracking progress across groups as a whole, YoYo Brain trakcs which facts are easy to learn and which ones cause people the most difficulty. Then it makes that knowledge available to you to increase your learning speed.

As a group, people will be encouraged to link the facts together in ways that make the best sense. This ever expanding Web of relationships will then become visible as another form of knowledge. Expertise in any field is formed by a very deep understanding of how the facts of a subject relate to each other to form greater patterns. YoYo Brain will make these patterns visible to the global community of learners.

Revealing Hidden Connections

The Web itself is a metaphor for the kind of connections we hope to create through YoYo Brain. Each area of knowledge is entwined in a graceful and complex structure which connects with other areas of knowledge. Those in turn connect to still others....on and on the web of knowledge spreads out. Traditionally, we, the learners, have traversed its surface seeing only what is under our feet, yet not what lies ahead, or what might be a simple connection away.

YoYo Brain seeks to create a structure that makes it easier to travel across this web, by making connections and accelerating our understanding of the web of information as a whole.

Mapping the Roads to Mastery

By tracking over time what you already have mastered, new information will be much easier to acquire using the relationships created by the group. Any fact is easy to learn if you can relate to information that you already understand. This is why teachers employ metaphors so readily. By telling someone a story about something they already understand and relating it to a new subject, it makes it easy to remember the new information.

Learning About Learning

Imagine you could track which metaphors made any subject area easiest to learn. By tracking the results of learning via different metaphors, the system can improve itself over time through user feedback. Imagine further that metaphors could be selected that relate to things the individual learner has already mastered.

Making Learning Fun

Research tells us that fun learning is the most effective learning. If you can make an engaging game out of learning, and provide devices that help learning happen faster, amazing things can happen. A six year old can rattle off 43 United States presidents perfectly. A 43 year old can master 6 new programming languages.

In Kindergarten, fun learning methods are used continually. As a result children soak up new knowledge everyday. As we age schools often cease treating new knowledge as something fun to attain - and attainment can become difficult and painful painful.

Imagine what would happen if learners were provided with fun ways to attain new knowledge. What if anyone, anywhere in the world could contribute their own tricks, games, processes, and connections which could be shared and tested for effectiveness?

Part of YoYo Brain's long term strategy is to provide an API and widgets that allow game makers, programmers and anyone to find more ways to make learning fun. We want to build a platform that will allow the best methodologies to be created and shared amongst everyone in the world.