Memo
The "Memorize & Meditate" tool — build a custom audio session from any text: precise slicing by period/comma/line, custom repetition counts and pause durations, an end-of-cycle gong, MP3 export, a standalone interval-timer mode, and a first-letter visual-cue mode for memorization. You don't have to paste text in by hand to get here either — "Memorize" in the reader's context menu opens Memo already filled in with the passage you clicked.
Transform — first-letter hints
The "Transform" button turns pasted text into a row of first letters, one per word — the classic memorization technique where you hold the whole text in your head and the page only shows you the anchor letters. Clicking a letter doesn't just reveal the full word in a tooltip — it also opens that word's dictionary entry right next to it:
"Transform" is for your own text — notes, a hand-picked set of lines. To read an entire sutta this way, don't copy it in here — switch the reader to "For Memorization" mode instead (Alt+3, see Reading modes) — same first-letter trick, applied directly to the live sutta text, with its translation, and no manual copying.
AI Expand — the reverse operation
If a text goes the other way and uses shorthand like "…pe…" or "etc." (peyyāla, the standard convention in Pali texts for not spelling out a repetitive list in full), the ✨ AI Expand button sends the text to ChatGPT with a ready-made prompt: recognize the pattern (the five aggregates, the six sense bases, the twelve links of dependent origination, the 32 parts of the body, and so on) and expand the shorthand into the full text in the original language.
The text is passed to chatgpt.com in the address bar, like any ordinary link with a parameter. Nothing is saved on Dhamma.gift and nothing passes through the app's own server.
Built-in presets
The list icon opens a set of ready-made sessions — not just to try out the tool, but usable as standalone practice material: Ānāpānasati (mindfulness of breathing, the AN/MN formula), Sampajānapabba, a breakdown of the five aggregates (khandha), a passage on Dukkhasamudayaṁ Ariyasaccaṁ, Ādittasutta (SN 35.28, "All Is Burning"), and a list of idle-talk topics (tiracchānakathā) — each already set up with its own separator, pauses and repeat count.
Pātimokkha — self-check from memory
At the bottom of the page, direct Selfcheck links open the full bhikkhu and bhikkhunī Pātimokkha text (with no links to commentary — on purpose, so you can check whether you actually remember the rules), plus links to third-party sites hosting the same Pātimokkha text.
Voice settings (TTS)
- Separator — how to cut the text into pieces (period, comma, line, etc.).
- Interval — the pause between pieces.
- End pause — a separate, usually longer pause at the end of the whole cycle.
- Sound — a gong (or another sound) at the end of the cycle, or none.
- Cycle — how many times to repeat (infinite included).
- Translation — read the translation instead of / alongside Pali.
A finished session can be downloaded as an MP3 (the download icon) — say, to listen offline or outside the browser.
See also Voice / TTS for the simpler player built right into the reader, without slicing or repeats.