Synora- a student productivity web application

Synora

Inspiration

Synora was inspired by a problem I personally experience as a student: procrastination followed by unrealistic overplanning. Many students create study schedules that look productive but are difficult to maintain consistently. Over time, these schedules become overwhelming and students fall behind, leading to stress and burnout.

I wanted to build a system that creates realistic and adaptive study plans instead of rigid timetables. The goal was to design a platform that understands a student’s workload, availability, study habits, and personal preferences to generate schedules that are actually sustainable.

What it does

Synora is an AI-powered student productivity dashboard that helps students organize their academic life in one place.

The platform:

Generates personalized study timetables
Tracks assignments and deadlines
Adapts study sessions based on workload and availability
Prioritizes difficult subjects and upcoming deadlines
Supports different study styles such as night owls and early birds
Allows students to generate quizzes for revision
Provides a centralized productivity dashboard for students

Instead of forcing students into fixed schedules, Synora creates adaptive study plans designed around real-life constraints and habits.

How we built it

We built Synora using a prompt-engineering workflow with MeDo to rapidly prototype and develop the platform.

The application combines:

A responsive dashboard UI
Calendar-based scheduling
Student personalization logic
Adaptive timetable generation
AI-assisted quiz generation

The scheduling system uses weighted prioritization to balance:

Subject difficulty
Assignment urgency
Available study hours
User preferences

For example:

[ Study\ Priority = Difficulty + Deadline\ Weight + Workload ]

The platform was designed to support future integrations with systems such as Google Calendar and Google Classroom to automate scheduling and deadline management.

Challenges we ran into

One of the biggest challenges was managing scope within a limited hackathon timeline. There were many features we wanted to implement, including advanced integrations, analytics, and additional AI functionality, but we had to focus on building a strong MVP first.

Another challenge was designing a scheduling system that feels realistic rather than robotic. Many timetable systems generate schedules that are technically efficient but impossible to maintain consistently. Balancing productivity with sustainability was an important part of the project.

We also faced challenges simplifying the user experience while still making the platform customizable and adaptive to different student lifestyles.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

We are proud of building a platform that solves a real student problem instead of creating productivity features for the sake of complexity.

Some accomplishments we are especially proud of include:

Creating an adaptive timetable generator
Designing a clean and student-focused dashboard
Developing a system that prioritizes realistic scheduling and burnout prevention
Building customizable study planning around real student habits
Successfully using prompt engineering workflows to accelerate development
Designing the foundation for future Google Calendar and Google Classroom integrations

Most importantly, we are proud that Synora is built around how students actually study in real life.

What we learned

Through this project, we learned:

The importance of solving real user problems
How critical scope management is during hackathons
How prompt engineering can speed up development workflows
The value of personalization in productivity systems
How to balance automation with usability

We also learned that the best productivity tools are not necessarily the most complicated ones, but the ones that fit naturally into people’s daily routines.

What's next for Synora

Future versions of Synora could include:

Google Calendar integration
Google Classroom synchronization
Smarter AI-powered scheduling
Burnout detection and wellness insights
Advanced quiz generation
Performance analytics
Cross-platform mobile support
Collaborative study groups
Intelligent study recommendations based on progress and performance

Our long-term vision is to make Synora a complete adaptive academic companion that helps students study more consistently, realistically, and sustainably.