The story behind memStep
It started as a way to fall asleep.
A slightly unusual bedtime experiment turned into a different way of thinking about learning.
One night, I was looking for something to occupy my mind while lying in bed—something repetitive enough that it might help me fall asleep. I decided to work through the multiplication table, entirely in my head.
The more I did it, the more patterns I began to see. Some answers could be reached from others. Certain groups behaved in predictable ways. I started developing little tricks of my own. Then I googled what I was seeing and found more techniques that other people had already discovered.
That experience became the idea behind memStep: learn a small group in a sensible order, look for the pattern, recall every answer yourself, and return to it later. No endless swiping and no pretending that recognizing an answer is the same as knowing it.
memStep is still a solo project. I’m building it one careful step at a time, trying to make learning feel focused, calm, and genuinely satisfying.