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Articles ​

FeynmanLM automatically surfaces articles you've saved to Safari Reading List and turns them into flashcard proposals — so your reading actually sticks.

How Articles Are Discovered ​

Safari Reading List (automatic, macOS): The app scans ~/Library/Safari/Bookmarks.plist for items added in the last 7 days and adds them to your queue automatically. This requires Full Disk Access in macOS System Settings → Privacy & Security → Full Disk Access (toggle FeynmanLM on).

Manual URL paste: In the Studio tab, paste any URL into the text field at the top of the source sidebar. The app fetches the article content and adds it to your queue.

Browser extension (Chrome/Safari): Right-click any article page and choose Capture to FeynmanLM, or open the extension side panel to review and refine cards while you read.

Generating Flashcards ​

Once an article appears in your queue (Studio tab → source sidebar):

  1. Select the article. The app fetches and displays the full text.
  2. Click Generate Flashcards. The AI reads the article and proposes a set of cards focused on key mechanisms and concepts — not just surface-level facts.
  3. Review each card one at a time:
    • Accept — the card enters your active deck.
    • Edit — tap the question or answer text to edit inline, then accept.
    • Make Harder / Make Simpler / Regenerate — use the Refine menu to adjust the card before accepting.
    • Skip — discard the card.
  4. When all cards are triaged, the article is marked Done and won't reappear.

Accepted cards are automatically routed to the Articles deck.

Tips ​

  • Articles with dense, mechanism-heavy content (research blogs, technical deep-dives) generate the best cards. Listicles and news articles tend to produce lower-quality proposals.
  • Use the Make Harder refine option for any card that feels too definitional — it rewrites the question to probe causality and mechanisms instead of recall.
  • The browser extension is the fastest path for articles you're reading right now: capture while reading, review proposals in the side panel, and commit the best ones without ever leaving the page.