Kolja Sam Pluemer

My mission is to make the world a better place by building excellent tools for learning.
Get in touch at contact (at) koljasam.com.

If you want to support my work, you can buy me a coffee .

Here are some of my projects:

what-to-do-next

A tiny desktop tool for collecting and displaying ideas on what I could do now

dumb notes

an extremely simple, extremely plaintext, local note-taking app for notes where fancy templating only distracts

The Language Scrapbook

proof of concept for a language game where you fulfill drag-and-drop tasks in the target language

awesome lectures

a community-driven curation of high-quality lecture recordings

Crazy Billiard

I co-created a VR speedrunning game mixing mini golf and billiard
Demo Video

prompts

A minimal, terminal-inspired UI to regularly ask yourself questions — made for journaling, self-awareness building and habit-tracking

SVG Shape Creator

a slim, web-based, laser-focused SVG editor that I need for game art creation

Al Kutshina

Practice a language with image-based puzzles

The Queue

An Obsidian.md plugin randomly exposing you to your notes. Supports habits, to-dos, spaced repetition flashcards, iterative reading and more.
Failed Projects & Experiments

Beworded

Prototype of a Bejeweled-style vocabulary game The core loop is just not very fun, and the game does not communicate it's affordances too clearly

know-every-year

An adaptive app to learn world history events by year using the Major System Couldn't find a coherent flow unifying adding years, adding events, adding mnemonics, and practicing all of that

If you want to know what I'm acutely working on, check the milestones.