Hello World: Introducing Scribby
What is Scribby?
When I was still in school, I always struggled to keep up with taking notes while also listening to my teacher. Whether it be their cadence of teaching, my lack of motivation, or classroom/life distractions, what I wrote was never one-to-one with what was taught. Then, when it came time for quizzes and exams, the notes would always lack some key information. After class, I struggled to summarive correctly and efficiently my notes into study materials, such as notecards or practice tests. If I did complete them, they were hard to store, manage, edit, and even use.
Six months ago I decided that I wanted to build a tool that could alleviate all of these issues. I would like to introduce the world to Scribby. He is your note taking assistant that will record your lectures, transcribe it's contents, and generate study materials in seconds (plus so much more)!
Features Overview
Transcription
The Scribby editor features an inline transcription module. Here you can record your lectures via multiple sources and have Scribby transcribe its contents. You can listen back over the lecture as well with realtime transcription highlighting and even continue to record asyncronously after the lecture is complete.
Study Material Generation
After you have written notes you can compile multiple files to be summarized into study guides or notecards. You can also summarize parts of any note or have messy transcription and quickly jotted notes cleaned up.
Scribby Directory
Included is a featureful file directory that allows you to quickly manage all of your study materials in a central hub. Here you can organize, share, and create everything you need to be more successful in the classroom.
Inline code editor
Need to write code within your notes to reference later? Within the Scribby editor you can create a code module and toggle between JavaScript, C/C++, Python, Go and Rust.
Note sharing
Want to share your notes with your classmates? Sharing within Scribby is extremely easy. Just enter their account info and allow them to view and even edit your documents.
What's Next?
This is just the beginning for Scribby. Here are some features that we plan on releasing in the future:
Inline Latex editor
The next module we will be releasing is the inline LaTeX editor. This will enable the ability to place complex mathematical equations and other structures directly within Scribby documents.
Run your Scribby code blocks
Instead of just writing code you will also be able to run and test it directly in the browser!
Sketchbooks
Want to doodle within your Scribby notes to further personalize your notebook? All areas will within the editor will having drawing enabled and allow saving of drawings between sessions.
Collaboration mode
Currently the notebook does not have a collaboration mode enabled but we will work to allow realtime collaboration features within notes and notecards.
Final Thoughts
I hope you find Scribby as useful as I have, and I look forward to continuing to develop this into the ultimate study tool. Feel free to join us on Reddit, Discord, or contact us. I would love to get feedback from users like you to make Scribby great!