For Self-Learners
Self-Learner Quick Start
The daily loop for learning on your own — save what you learned, review your cards, grow the park.
No teacher, no classroom — just you and whatever you’re studying. The self-learner loop takes about five minutes a day.
1. Save what you learned
After studying anything — a chapter, a tutorial, a lecture, a work doc — open app.skillpark.app and save a short summary in your own words (10–5,000 characters).
SkillPark then:
- extracts the key concepts from your summary,
- writes quiz cards for them,
- and files everything into a building for that topic in your park (new topic → new building; familiar topic → the existing building grows).
Writing the summary yourself isn’t busywork — summarizing from memory is itself one of the strongest study techniques (Active Recall). The free beta allows 5 saves per day, which is more studying than most of us manage.
2. Review daily
Each day, SkillPark serves the cards that are due — the ones you’re on the edge of forgetting. Answer them:
- Correct → the card retreats: 1 day → 3 days → a week → weeks → months.
- Wrong → it returns tomorrow until it sticks.
That’s the SM-2 spaced-repetition algorithm deciding the schedule, so you never waste time re-reading what you already know.
3. Watch the park grow
Every correct answer earns bricks. Bricks upgrade buildings through four tiers — Common, Rare, Epic, Legendary. Daily activity charges your pickaxe (better pickaxe = more bricks per answer), and consecutive days build a streak multiplier up to 2.5×.
Full mechanics: Park Progression
A realistic week
| Day | What you do | Time |
|---|---|---|
| Mon | Study something; save a summary | 3 min to save |
| Tue | Review 4 due cards | 2 min |
| Wed | Study more; save; review 6 cards | 5 min |
| Thu | Review 3 cards | 90 sec |
| Fri | Review 8 cards, level a building to Rare | 4 min |
The magic isn’t any single day — it’s that in March you’ll still remember what you studied in September.