Lazy Study Buddy: an offline tool that turns notes into summaries and quizzes

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Haoua Tamaivou, a network engineering student from Cameroon, built Lazy Study Buddy to help students revise without re-reading their notes. Users paste their notes and the tool produces a short summary and tap-to-reveal quiz questions in English or French. It runs entirely on the user's computer using the open-weight Gemma model through Ollama, so no internet is needed and notes stay private. The tool is part of her Hacktoberfest 2026 open-source projects and is available on GitHub. She noted that the quizzes are drawn only from the summary and that small models can make factual errors, so answers should be checked against course material.

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