NoteSus

Inspiration

With the transition to a remote work environment, online communication has become a necessity. Ideas are often omitted from documentation due to the lack of accessibility features. With the workplace evolving to online pathways, there is a growing need for a centralized notation service with several features to overcome user negligence, provide efficient support for daily activities and enhance productivity.

What it does

Some of the features include:

Stores note ID, note details, category tags, note text etc. using CockroachDB through PostgreSQL logic in JavaScript.
Summarize notes for active recall and daily scrum with Google/Alexa compatibility.
Convert handwritten notes to text.
Convert speech to text.
Classify notes with categories and form relevant hyperlinks.
Search functionality to look up similar notes.
Image pane for visual learning and handwritten notes for reference.

How we built it

CockroachDB:
- Stored notes data using CockroachDB's minimum failure risk, and scalability across multiple nodes.
- Autosaves after a certain period of time to avoid loss of data using PostgreSQL queries.
- Created a matching/grouping logic for classifying notes under the NLP generated categories.
- Reverse search query to look for keywords in notes using CockroachDB's millisecond response times.
- Alter/Insert/Delete logic.
Voiceflow:
- Set up Google & Alexa devices to recite summaries of notes based on the 'Active Recall' principle.
Google Cloud Vision: Handwriting to Text.
Google Cloud NLP: Text analysis & Classification.
DeepAI: Summarizing text to 20%.
Back-End: Node.js
Front-End: HTML/CSS & Bootstrap

Challenges we ran into

Encapsulating all the different APIs into a single web application and ensuring minimal time delays between different calls.
Integrating our backend API endpoints with Voiceflow to perform operations on our Google Home device.

What's next for NoteSus

Use data in ML models to track progress curves and performance (eg: similar to premium JIRA for free with custom models and new parameters to track).
User login system (Currently built for open access, can simply add Oauth functionality to restrict to certain groups).
Automated email notifications and calendar events.
Real-time collaboration.