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Product case study · Pilot-stage prototype

Process Notebook

A learning platform designed to preserve how students worked—their ink, revisions, scratch work, pauses, and AI-help interactions—not only the final answer.

Private working repository · Public-safe demo in development

01 · The problem

A final answer hides the process that produced it.

Teachers often receive a static worksheet after the meaningful evidence has disappeared: false starts, scratch work, revisions, tool use, and the moment a student asked for help. Process Notebook treats that history as the primary record.

02 · Product rules

Capture the sequence of work—not only the submitted answer.

Keep AI help visible in the same history a teacher reviews.

Preserve original handwriting when recognition creates converted text.

Do not automatically grade, rank, predict misconduct, or label students.

03 · What exists

  • Teacher PDF upload and student worksheet workspace.
  • Stylus ink, text, scratch pages, undo/redo, and append-only event history.
  • Teacher replay, feedback, reopening, and PDF export workflows.
  • Teacher-triggered handwriting recognition and subject-specific templates.

At the latest verified handoff, the repository had ten tagged milestones and 300 automated tests passing. That describes the project state, not a claim that I personally authored every implementation detail.

04 · Validation I owned

I compared student work across the live workspace, teacher replay, screenshots, and exported PDFs; found rendering inconsistencies; and caught a database migration that existed in the repository but had never reached the live environment. Both blocked release until resolved.

05 · Claims I am not making

There is no completed school pilot, teacher adoption, or measured student outcome yet. The project is a working prototype that still needs a public-safe demo, a current README, real-device testing, and a deeper architecture walkthrough before I market it as production-ready.

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