Not from hard words, but from the fifteen seconds of detour every time you hit one.
I was reading a book on my laptop. A good one, the kind where the world goes quiet and it's just you and the words.
Then I hit a word I didn't know.
Select. Copy. New tab. Paste. Translate. Tab back. Find my place. Read one more sentence.
Fifteen seconds. That's all it took to shatter the spell. I wasn't reading anymore. I was managing a workflow.
It happened again two paragraphs later. And again. I started a vocab list in Notes, another app to manage, another thing to forget.
One evening I realized I'd been on the same page for twenty minutes. Not because it was hard. Because the tools kept pulling me out.
I started avoiding books in other languages. The thing meant to grow my vocabulary had become the reason I stopped reading.
What if you never left the page? One keystroke. The word gets looked up and saved locally, while you keep reading.
No tabs. No copy and paste. No "where was I?"
And the words you capture? They live in your library on your Mac, searchable, exportable, sortable into folders whenever you want.
Small, fresh, picked up from a sentence or headline. Your library fills up, one leaf at a time, one book at a time.
You don't jump from beginner to fluent. You grow one ring at a time, one word, one page, one chapter. Leafy keeps every capture so that growth stays visible.
A tree doesn't grow by rushing.
It grows by not stopping.
Leafy wasn't born in a product meeting. It was born from a frustrated evening with a book I couldn't finish.
It's early, a beta, a seedling. But the idea is simple: reading should grow you, not slow you down. If that sounds like you, come along.
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