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LazyStudy AI : Hacktoberfest Week 3 DEV Challenge

This is a submission for the Hacktoberfest Open-Source AI Challenge Week 3: Slow and Steady What I Built As a student, I noticed a frustrating pattern during exam season: I was spending hours just organizing, highlighting, and formatting my study material before I ever began actually studying. Manually making flashcards or typing up practice quizzes takes a lot of mental energy, and by the time…

This is a report on Hacktoberfest Open-Source AI Challenge Week 3: LazyStudy AI. The student-built study assistant addresses the issue of students spending too much time organizing, highlighting, and formatting notes before actually studying. LazyStudy AI automates these tedious prep tasks, creating smart summaries, active recall flashcards, practice quizzes, and a quick revision plan.

The tool uses open-weight models for local inference, ensuring student privacy, cost-effectiveness, and independence from proprietary cloud AI services. A demo web app with pre-loaded sample notes in various subjects is available at https://shivv2430.github.io/LazyStudy_AI/.

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