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:
Arabic 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 anothercards
Posts and notes in the form of independent cards
how to conduct user research
second-hand startup advice
how to build software
noteworthy biases and fallacies
tools for truth finding
creating a habit
Personal Productivity Philosophy
lots of terms meaning "learning with a computer" or similar
finding users, customers and clients
collection: personal productivity strategies
Al 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
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 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.