BookSmart 📚🤓

Booksmart is your ultimate productivity companion -- an all-in-one platform that simplifies meeting scheduling, task management, and email organization. With a sleek calendar supporting month, week, and day views, recurring events, and instant email notifications for attendees, Booksmart ensures you're always on top of your schedule. Plus, its AI-powered email summarizer transforms lengthy threads into concise, customizable summaries, making inbox management effortless!

Chosen problem statement

Develop a cost-effective digital PA system for administrators to efficiently arrange and schedule meetings and automate tasks such as sending follow-up tasks to themselves or others, sending reminders, generating summaries of email threads, and arranging meetings (Singapore Book Council)

(See our pitch deck here)

Test our app here

🚀 https://booksmart.nseah.dev 🚀

What it does

🤖 AI-powered "bot" that summarises long email threads
- Emails can be provided as text or as an exported PDF
- Users can add special instructions to customise the output
🧠 Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) for email summary
- Provides greater context to the bot which can return nuanced responses with insight across many email threads
📧 Self-hosted SMTP client
- Cost-effective
- Immediate notifications to event participants
- Uses a free Gmail server for sending emails
📅 Supercharged calendar
- Provides a comprehensive UI and dynamic layout for everyone's needs
- Supports recurring events, color classification, automatic email notifications, and scheduled reminders (coming soon)

How we built it

Frontend: Next.js (later migrated to Vite for ease of deployment)
Backend: FastAPI server + SQLite database
AI: GPT-4 + ChromaDB as the vector store
Deployment: DigitalOcean App Platform

Challenges we ran into

We ran into issues with building and deploying Next.js due to issues with server-side rendering (SSR). To fix this, we migrated our frontend to use Vite, which simplified the deployment significantly.