Snapnote

Inspiration

Being CS students, we are often hit with long and complicated assignments that barely make any sense and piles upon piles of assignments with complicated and unclear directions. We set out to fix that.

What it does

AI note summarizer that efficiently gathers the main points of a pdf document in a comprehensive and digestible manner
Allows users to ask follow up questions related to the document to deepen their understanding (active learning > passive learning)

How we built it

We started by creating a starter React file with Vite, and imported the API from Gemini Studio onto that!

Challenges we ran into

Never having used react or APIs before, we were pretty lost on where to start. It took a lot of trial and error to be able to implement and use them both in our project.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

We were able to implement the API, make a generally okay UI using React and implement PDF parsing with Gemini!

What we learned

How to use Gemini API!
Applications of AI to tackle academic issues

What's next for Snapnote

Finding additional sources from a database to support the prompt!

Setup Instructions:

Clone the repository
Install dependencies (npm install)
Add Gemini API Key to .env file
Run the tool with npm run dev
Open the browser to view SnapNote and enjoy its immersive features and a responsive UI