Notalyst

Notalyst is your AI-powered lecture assistant that records lectures, summarizes them, and transforms your notes into flashcards and custom audio reviews; all seamlessly integrated with Notion.

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🚀 Inspiration As students at Texas A&M, we’ve all struggled with fast-paced lectures, messy notes, and recordings we never rewatch. With our tools scattered across Notion, Canvas, and voice memos, we asked: What if one AI-powered platform could handle it all — capturing, summarizing, and helping us study smarter? That idea became Notalyst.

🤖 What it does Notalyst is an AI-powered lecture assistant that records lectures, generates clean bullet-point summaries, auto-creates flashcards, and even builds custom audio reviews from your notes — all seamlessly integrated with Notion.

🛠 How we built it We built the frontend in Next.js and tailwindcss with a Vercel deployment pipeline

🧩 Challenges we ran into Structuring lecture transcriptions into digestible summaries without losing context

Balancing the UI to remain minimal while supporting multiple modes (recording, reviewing, exporting)

Working with the Notion API’s constraints around content formatting and syncing

Getting clean, natural audio synthesis for AI Playback in a way that feels listenable

🏆 Accomplishments that we're proud of A working end-to-end prototype that transforms a real lecture recording into summarized Notion notes

Fully functional flashcard generation using NLP

Seamless Notion export and auto-formatting by topic, date, and course

AI Playback working as a podcast-style review tool — something we haven’t seen combined in other edtech tools

📚 What we learned

The importance of frictionless UX in educational tools — especially when targeting busy students

That syncing with platforms students already use (like Notion) adds massive usability and value

🔮 What's next for Notalyst Add Canvas LMS integration for automated course syncing

Support multi-class folders and lecture tagging by concept

Built With

  • next.js
  • tailwindcss
  • vercel
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