A word on your iPhone Home Screen

The words you mean to learn lose to everything else the phone is for. You will not open a notebook because you remembered that you own one. The moment you would have opened it is the moment you are already doing something else. A word that is already on the Home Screen does not need that decision.

A glance is the whole thing

A widget is a word sitting where you already look, between the apps you open without thinking. You see the word and the sense, and you move on. There is no session to start and no session to feel guilty about leaving. The glance is the practice.

The day’s word, or one of yours

What sits there is a word of the day: one word, already chosen, before you decide to study. It is on the Home Screen. It is not on the Lock Screen.

You can leave it as the day’s word. You can point the same widget at the words you have kept, so the glance is a word you met and meant to remember. A word chosen for the day tells you a word was waiting. A word you saved teaches you that word. If you have kept very few, you will see the ones you have, and that is the honest size of the habit.

One is enough

One widget is free. A second widget, and the other covers, open with Vocabulary Premium. One is enough to begin. The point of the first is that the word is there before you decide to study, which is the only moment most words ever get.