How students organize board photos — so they can actually study from them.

Most students take photos of whiteboards, projector slides, and study group diagrams throughout a semester. By midterms, the camera roll has hundreds of board images with no real organization — no course tags, no searchable text, no way to quickly find the diagram from the lecture on enzyme kinetics three weeks ago.

The standard workaround is to re-photograph the same board at different angles hoping one is readable, then spend time manually tagging images in the Photos app or uploading them to a Google Drive folder. Neither approach turns the image into something you can actually read, search, or build flashcards from.

The BoardSnap student workflow

1. Create one Project per course — Organic Chemistry, Microeconomics, CS Data Structures, etc.
2. After each class or study session, snap the board into the right project. VisionKit handles the angle and perspective.
3. BoardSnap AI returns a written summary of the board content — readable text, not an image.
4. At study time, open the project. Every lecture board from the semester is there as structured notes. Ask the AI a question about course material and it uses all the pinned context to answer.

The exam prep advantage

Before an exam, open each board's summary, pin the most important frameworks, and ask BoardSnap AI to generate practice questions from the material. The AI uses the context from your boards — your specific professor's approach and terminology — not generic textbook content.

Study groups work the same way. When your group fills a whiteboard with a complex proof or a case analysis, snap it at the end. Everyone gets the summary, not a photo that half the group will struggle to read.

For students writing thesis or research notes, see the thesis research notes page.