I bought a language textbook once. It sat on my shelf for eleven months, moved house with me twice, and eventually went to a charity shop still wrapped in plastic. The problem wasn't motivation. I genuinely wanted to learn. The problem was I kept setting the bar at "an hour on Sunday" and then never having an hour on Sunday.
Building a learning habit works when you start embarrassingly small. Five minutes. That's it.
BRNIQ sessions are designed around this because I kept failing at everything longer. Five cards, three quiz questions, done. Small enough to fit between meetings, on a commute, while your coffee brews. You don't need a study plan or a quiet room. You need five minutes and a phone.
The streak system is what keeps me honest, and I say that as someone who's broken plenty of streaks in other apps. Daily streaks, streak shields, badges. It sounds gamified because it is, and that's the point. Missing a day hurts a little. Shields protect your progress when life gets in the way. Complete a wild-card session and you earn a shield back. It's dumb and it works.
Pick a topic you actually care about. This sounds obvious but most learning apps assign you a curriculum like you're back in school. BRNIQ has 100 topics. Roman history, quantum physics, personal finance, whatever. Adaptive learning means you won't see the same card twice until you've worked through everything else. I started with history because I'm nosy about things that happened before I was born. You might pick something completely different. The best learning habit is one you look forward to, not one you guilt yourself through.
I still don't read that textbook. But I know who crossed the Rubicon and why it mattered, because I learned it in five minutes on a Tuesday when I was trying to unlock Instagram. That's a learning habit I can actually keep.