EurekaPad

Returning to college to tackle one of the toughest technical degrees after three years in the military taught me valuable skills, but also revealed a major gap in the tools available for STEM students. Existing note-taking apps just didn’t cut it.

I spent hours juggling between my iPad and laptop. Handwritten notes were great but weren’t compatible with the Markdown and LaTeX platforms I used on my computer. Typing math was slow, and embedding rich STEM content was a pain. I knew there had to be a better way.

About five months ago, I won a hackathon at Cambridge for developing an audio-to-LaTeX transcription service. It wasn’t the world-changing idea I had hoped for, but it highlighted a real problem: STEM note-taking is broken.

For the past two months, we've been iterating on a solution that I believe will be helpful for both myself and other STEM students: EurekaPad. EurekaPad is the Notion for STEM students, combining the speed of a keyboard with the flexibility of a tablet, all in one powerful workspace.

We’re still refining what students want, but here’s what we’ve built so far:

Lightning fast, runnable code blocks. Support for data science libraries and plotting graphs with matplotlib. It's like Notion met Jupyter Notebooks.
Intuitive math editor. Type LaTeX with autocompletions, or use the built-in keyboard.
Interactive graphs. Bring your notes to life with animated graphs.
Real-time speech-to-text. How many times have you fast-forwarded through Panopto just to find the part of the lecture you need to hear again?

Because smart people deserve smart tools. Try it for yourself!