DidRead
Too long? Read it anyway.
A few minutes a day to read, think, and write for yourself.
DidRead gives you one short passage and one good question each day, then a reaction to your thinking, not a summary of someone else's.
Coming soon to iPhone.
Five minutes. Three steps.
- Read. A short passage worth your time: a strange bit of history, a quiet scene, a small idea that changes how you see something. Written by people, checked for facts.
- Answer. One question. Sometimes you'll tap or order. Often you'll write a sentence or two in your own words.
- Get a reaction. Feedback that names what you did well and asks one question to push you further. No grades. No red pens.
Then you're done. Come back tomorrow for the next one.
Four kinds of thinking, one passage at a time.
Getting it.
Understanding what a passage actually says, and finding the line that proves it.
Reading between the lines.
Noticing what's implied: the motive, the mood, the thing nobody says out loud.
Thinking it through.
Spotting the leap in an argument, the missing comparison, the number that doesn't prove what it claims.
Saying it well.
Explaining an idea in your own words, to a real person, clearly enough that it lands.
Difficulty adjusts quietly as you go. You'll never see a level or a score.
Here's what a DidRead workout looks like.
Read the passage
Instead of raising the price, a company keeps the price the same and puts less inside. The bag of chips that used to hold 10 ounces now holds 9.25. The chocolate bar gets a little thinner. The roll of paper towels has fewer sheets. Economists call this shrinkflation.
It slips past most shoppers because we pay attention to what things cost, not how much is in the package…
Today's question: Which sentence explains why shrinkflation is easy to miss?
That's it. Short, a little surprising, and it asks you to actually look.
Why DidRead exists
Pro-reader. Not anti-AI.
AI can summarize anything. That's genuinely useful, and we use it too. But some things are worth keeping for yourself: the patience to finish a page, the instinct to ask "wait, does that follow?", the satisfaction of saying exactly what you mean.
Those are skills, and skills fade when we hand them off. DidRead is a small daily rep to keep them.
How it's built:
- Passages are written and fact-checked by people. Never generated on the fly.
- AI gives feedback, but never decides. It reacts to your answer against a clear rubric. Your progress, difficulty and streak are handled by plain, predictable code.
- No guilt. No "you'll lose your streak," no fake urgency, no leaderboards. One friendly reminder a day, if you want it.
- Your writing stays yours. Your free-writes are private and never sent to AI. We don't sell data or show ads. Privacy policy
From the blog
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The skills you don't notice losing.
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Think first, then ask.
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