Kolja Sam Pluemer
My mission is to make the world a better place by building excellent tools for learning.
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contact (at) koljasam.com.
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Here are some of my projects:
Video Vocab
Make your target language comprehensible by learning the vocabulary needed to understand a native speaker YouTube video.Vietnamese Minimal Pairs
Experimental UI for learning to distinguish Vietnamese sounds and tonesExpression Simplification Practice
Free high-school level math foundations practice toolSignal Lost
My entry for the Ludum Dare Game Jam #59 (Signals): Connect houses so they can deliver their data packages before growing annoyed.3D Preposition Acquisition
a tiny VR/desktop game to learn the local prepositions in a foreign languageArabic Numbers Practice
Practice recognizing, writing, spelling and pronouncing numbers in ArabicArabic Concordances Explorer
Practice Arabic (MSA) by exploring sentences & concordancesBasic Egyptian Sentences Trainer
Get a feel for Egyptian Arabic with a cloze deletion gameMatrix Multiplication Mentor
a tiny learning app to understand and practice matrix multiplication, built for Summer of Math 21what-to-do-next
A tiny desktop tool for collecting and displaying ideas on what I could do nowdumb notes
an extremely simple, extremely plaintext, local note-taking app for notes where fancy templating only distractsThe Language Scrapbook
proof of concept for a language game where you fulfill drag-and-drop tasks in the target languageawesome lectures
a community-driven curation of high-quality lecture recordingsCrazy Billiard
I co-created a VR speedrunning game mixing mini golf and billiardToken Economy Tracker
A tiny productivity app to encourage and reward yourself for taking key actionsUnnamed Global Delivery Game
Casual 3D logistics game where you schedule routes & deliveries on a stylized Earthprompts
A minimal, terminal-inspired UI to regularly ask yourself questions — made for journaling, self-awareness building and habit-trackingSVG Shape Creator
a slim, web-based, laser-focused SVG editor that I need for game art creationRandom Stretch Recommender
Get a random stretch you can do right nowObsidian: Angry Luhmann
Plugin for Obsidian.md that nudges you to connect your notes in a zettelkasten structurezk
I publish a zettelkasten-style digital garden on how to build learning toolsInfographics & Posters
Occasionally, I create posters and infographics about varying topicsmy tool to wrap screenshots in mockups
A tiny, single-file app I use to wrap screenshots in basic mocksCurrency Conversion Challenger
Small Vue app to practice mentally converting from one currency to anotherAl Kutshina
Practice a language with image-based puzzleskarten
Free online Spaced Repetition Software with experimental features such as interdependent flashcardsInfinite Sentences
Data-driven sentence learning app where you learn exactly the vocabulary you need to understand a piece of natural languageThe 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
Cloze Drill
Experimental language learning app to internalize grammar and vocabulary by doing sentence-based cloze deletion exercises building a general, multi-language interface for cloze exercises wasn't too useful, but exploded dev, data and onboarding complexitycards
A little blogging engine showcasing posts and notes in the form of independent cards simply used too littleBeworded
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 clearlyknow-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 thatAI-based learning material generator
Having a CRM for exercise creation disconnected from specific learning apps turned out to lack a reasonable usage flowIf you want to know what I'm acutely working on, check the milestones.