Reading for Insight
Transform reading from a passive chore into an active conversation. Learn how to engage with any text to extract more meaning and remember what you find.
Like Duolingo, but for Reading for Insight. Tomo turns the whole topic into a game you play five minutes a day, until it actually sticks.
A short one: 12 levels across 2 sections, about 24 minutes end to end, roughly 5 days at five minutes a day. It moves through Engaging the Page and Deepening the Connection. It starts from scratch.
Free forever · No credit card · iPhone & Android
Key ideas in Reading for Insight
- Reading is a dynamic exchange where the reader's own experiences and questions interact with the text
- Passive reading leads to zoning out because the brain isn't looking for a role in the process
- Searching for the author's purpose (the 'why') creates a mental hook for the information
- Identifying the reason a detail was included helps distinguish main points from fluff
- The shift from passive consumption to active dialogue
- Using the 'Why' question to maintain focus
- Predicting outcomes forces the brain to synthesize what it has already read
- Anticipation creates a 'reward' when the text confirms or surprises your guess
- Using prediction to build engagement
- Marking a text creates a visual map of your personal reaction to the material
- Physical interaction with the page makes the information easier to retrieve later
- The purpose of different types of marginalia
- Disagreeing with an author's logic is a sign of deep comprehension
- Noting confusion is a productive step toward clarity
- Valid ways to 'talk back' to a text
- Visual distractions break immersion
You've tried the other tabs
Thirty open tabs. Four facts you actually kept.
You watched. You nodded. By Sunday it was gone.
One answer, then back to scrolling.
Eight weeks. You meant to finish. You didn't.
Tomo gives Reading for Insight the Duolingo treatment: levels, streaks, and quick quizzes that test what you just learned. That game loop is what the tabs above never had, so it's the one you actually finish.
Here's what playing it feels like
A real question from this course. Take your best guess.
What happens to your brain when you just stare at words without looking for a way to join in?
Get it right to open this lesson and 11 more in the app.
Where Reading for Insight takes you
- 1
Engaging the Page
- The Active Reading Mindset
- Setting the Stage for Focus
- 2
Deepening the Connection
- Seeing the Unspoken
- Making the Ideas Stick
2 sections · 4 units · 12 levels. Built to play, not to enroll.
Tomo is in ChatGPT
Tomo is also a ChatGPT plugin: the same playable courses, built and played inside your chat.
Add Tomo to ChatGPT- What to ask
- “Make me a Tomo course on black holes.” “Turn this chat into a Tomo course.”
- What you get
- Quick questions with instant feedback, hearts and stars, ready to play in about a minute.
- Where it goes
- No sign-up to start. Connect your Tomo account and your streak carries on in the app.
You pick the voice
Reading for Insight is taught in the Explain Like I'm 5 style: no big words. promise.. Want a different feel? In the app you can spin up the same topic in any of Tomo's teaching styles. Same facts, totally different vibe.
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Start Reading for Insight today.
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