three things a day
one from discovery, one from science, one from practice. five minutes.
Android is still under review.
three, every day
Three topics are ready when the day starts. Finish all three and the day is complete.
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Discovery
History, anthropology, forgotten events. It starts somewhere you haven't been.
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02
Science
Technology, space, artificial intelligence. The background of what's being discussed today.
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03
Practice
Economics, psychology, decision making. The part you'll use tomorrow.
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One screen, one day
Open the app and today's three, plus this day in history and the flashcards, are already there. Nothing to search for, choose between, or miss.
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Today's three
Discovery, science and practice. All three are generated once a day on the server, so everyone reads the same three on the same day.
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Five minutes
Each topic ends in one sitting. Not padded, not split into parts, not chained to a continue button.
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Three questions
You find out at the end whether any of it stuck. Correct answers earn XP, XP earns levels.
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This day in history
Events that fall on today's date. The year, how long ago it was, and what happened; you swipe through them.
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Flashcards
Question-and-answer cards from seven categories, history through art. Independent of the day's three, a short break that stands on its own.
an app that ends
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Works offline
The day's content downloads to your device on first open. It opens on the metro, on a plane, out of coverage.
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Three a day, that's it
There is no endless feed. Read the three and the day is done; the app doesn't try to keep you.
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Streaks and levels
Every day you finish all three adds to your streak. You start as an Apprentice and rise as you read.
Furkan Uçar
Developer & Maintainer
racu has one purpose: three articles a day, five minutes, a feed that ends. What stays with you when you close it should be what you learned, not how far you scrolled.
The name comes from my surname: Uçar, read backwards, is racu. I only found out later that racu is an Old English word meaning an account or a narrative, the telling of a thing from start to finish. The coincidence stuck, because that is exactly what racu does.