About

Polymind is a free and open-source program to practice memorization at the subconscious level.

Useful for:

• Language learning
• Practice for exams
• Studying for medical and law exams
• Memorize long lists of information

Technology

Written in PHP and JavaScript, it uses Laravel, VueJS and Vuetify as frameworks.

Installation

Setup your environment

1. Create a copy of .env.example, name it .env and adjust the settings according to your current setup.
2. Run composer install in the root directory.
3. Run npm install or yarn in the root directory.
4. Run the following commands to initiate the database:

php artisan migrate:fresh
php artisan db:seed --class=LanguageSeeder
php artisan db:seed --class=VoiceSeeder

5. Run npm run build.

Setup AWS

1. Create a new IAM user of type Programmatic access.
2. Attach the existing policy AmazonPollyFullAccess to the user.
3. Copy-paste the access and secret key into your .env file.

Setup ambiences

You can easily add your custom ambiences by creating a .ambience.json file at the root folder of the project.

The structure of the JSON file is an array containing the following properties:

[{
    "title": "My ambience",
    "url": "https://website.com/music.mp3",
    "bg": "https://website.com/background.jpg",
    "thumbnail": "https://website.com/thumbnail.jpg",
    "opacity": 0.75,
    "volume": 0.2
}]

Launch the application

In your terminal, run:

php artisan serve

If you want to make modifications to the UI, also run:

npm run hot

License

The Polymind web app is open-sourced software licensed under the BSD-3-Clause.