Classcribe
Learning is an ephemeral experience that demands our total attention. Conventional collaborative note-taking applications make us clash and distract each other on one document. Classcribe only leverages the benefit of collaboration: a new wealth of knowledge from your peers. No editor wars. Just learning.
Inspiration
When taking notes, fleeting moments of distraction can sometimes cause us to miss important points in a lecture. This is the source of the inevitable struggle in crunch-weeks before midterms or finals. We wanted an app that stops this
What it does
Classcribe declutters your collaborative note-taking experience so that you get the all benefits of collaboration while simultaneously taking all of your own notes. As the lecture progresses, Classcribe compares your notes with everyone else's in the class, with the goal of introducing multiples perspectives on a single topic while also providing you with the assurance that you won't miss any key points.
How we built it
We used meteor.js to power our front-end and back-end programming, which was done in JavaScript. We began by decomposing the overall function of our web app into a few key algorithms that needed to be implemented, and then designed the site around this idea.
Challenges we ran into
Some challenging project were the merging of snippets of text into the more abstract concept of topics and finding these similarities across everyone's set of notes, and creating a super intuitive user interface that fully takes leverage of the decluttered experience we provide the user.
Accomplishments that we're proud of
With all three of us being Freshman in college, this project is by far the most ambitious one-night project we've ever taken on -- and it was a tremendous learning experience for all of us. Our proudest accomplishment is our entire product, made with blood, sweat, tears, and coffee/redbull.
What we learned
Everyone in this group acquired an extensive amount of experience in web development as well as the meteor.js framework from a front-end and back-end perspective.
What's next for Classcribe
Scaling up Classcribe to larger audiences and testing and implementing newer and more improved methods for comparing class notes and classifying topics. Flagging of notes at specific points for large variation is also being considered, as well as improving Classcribe's merging algorithms to ensure that it is not sensitive to various in writing styles.
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