⋆✒️.°✧🪼𓍢ִ໋ ˖° Intellect-Ink °˖𓍢ִ໋ 🪼 ✧°.✒️⋆

With a trend of shortened attention spans, lack of daily reading, and impending doom scrolling being at an all-time high, IntellectInk seeks to change that. This all-in-one mobile app promotes microlearning and fosters curiosity through bite-sized information tailored to each user’s interests. Organized by topics of interest, it offers short yet impactful snippets of articles, poems, books, breaking news, and the latest research discoveries to make learning a seamless part of one’s daily routine. A built-in reading tracker encourages consistent daily reading, helping users stay motivated and engaged with their reading habits. The app also curates articles and newsletters from diverse viewpoints, empowering users to explore all sides of a topic, fostering critical thinking, and encouraging well-informed, independent opinions.

The app has 3 main goals:

1. Improve daily reading
2. Improve critical thinking with access to diverse viewpoints
3. Promote daily learning

⋆˚.⋆ ⚙️ MVP Features ⚙️ ⋆˚.⋆

1. User Authenticaion

Sign up

Login

Password Recovery

2. Daily Reading Tracker

Track total number of minutes read daily, monthly, and yearly

Custom goal setting mechanism

Data visualization of reading minutes

Reminders and notifications

3. Content Fetching and Display

Fetching and displaying text from various APIs:

News (incorporate different viewpoints by offering user suggestions of an article with an opposing claim)

Books

Poems

Scholarly Articles/Research

4. Searching and Filtering Mechanisms

Ability to filter each type of media (news, books, poems, research, etc.) into different topics

Create tagging system for each type of media that allows for keyword searching

⋆˚.⋆ 🎯 Stretch Goals 🎯 ⋆˚.⋆

1. Discussion forums

Allow users to like, comment, reply to discussion threads under certain articles/poems/books

2. Profile customization

Adding a favorites section to any form of media that the user has bookmarked

Gamification to display achievements

3. Audiobook feature

Improving accessibility and allowing users to listen to media on the go

Adding ambient background music for users during their reading time

4. Educational daily quizzes

Either 1 daily trivia quiz for the user or a short pop quiz/trivia after the user finished reading a certain form of media

⋆˚.⋆ 💻 Tech Stack 💻 ⋆˚.⋆

Wireframing: Figma

• Collaborative design tool for creating the app’s UI
• Allows clear visualization of app’s components, page navigation with prototyping, and planning user flow

IDE: VSCode

• Android Studio includes the emulator
• VSCode offers plugins for Flutter, Dart, and is compatible with React Native
• VSCode Installation

Version Control: Git

• Git Installation

Emulator: Android Studio

• Android Studio Installation

MERN Techstack:

Frontend: React Native

• React Native Documentation
• React Native Expo Documentation

Backend: Node JS and Express

• Node JS Installation
• Install NVM

Programming Language: JavaScript

Database: MongoDB

• MongoDB Download

⋆˚.⋆ 🗓️ Milestones 🗓️ ⋆˚.⋆

Week 1

• Decide Tech Stack
• Finalize MVPs and stretch goals according to team members
• Assign roles to each member (Frontend, Backend, Full Stack based on experience and interest)
• Download necessary software
• Frontend: Begin wireframing on Figma
• Backend: Practice user authentication, watch tutorials to gain familiarity

Week 2

• Frontend:
  • Finish wireframing
  • Begin coding pages (at least have login/sign-up done so backend can begin integration)
• Backend:
  • Practice making API calls
  • Experiment with data storage in Firebase Realtime Database

Week 3

• Frontend:
  • Continue coding pages
  • Ensure all pages are routed
  • Aim to have main pages (Home, Reading Tracker, Profile) completed
• Backend:
  • Integrate Login/Sign-up/Password management with Firebase

Week 4

• Backend:
  • Begin integrating APIs
  • Fetch, cache, and display books/articles/poems
• Frontend:
  • Incorporate data visualization widgets into the application

Week 5

• Backend: Integrate user data with data visualizations
• Frontend: Begin working on presentation and script

Week 6

• Backend: Buffer week for any roadblocks and allow more time for integration
• Frontend: All pages should be fully coded by now

Week 7

• Work on stretch goals (if time permits)
• Backend: Refine searching and filtering mechanisms
• Frontend: Finalize presentation and script, begin practicing

Week 8

• Practice and prepare for presentations

Week 9

• Polish presentation and gather feedback

⋆˚.⋆ ⚔️ Competition ⚔️ ⋆˚.⋆

Bookly

Including daily reading, bookmarks, and progress tracking but is only limited towards books

Does not have a pop quiz or trivia feature

Targeted towards promoting reading but not necessarily towards daily learning

Headway

Includes book summaries for the main ideas of books, microlearning sessions, and self growth challenges but is only limited towards books and quotes

Does not include the entire book, only has summaries

Lack of ambient sounds to play while reading

Mindsnap

Includes fun facts, articles of different categories, and educational quizzes but does not include books

Focuses on learning lessons or improving knowledge on a topic instead of staying up to date with the news and gaining different perspectives

⋆˚.⋆ 📓 Other Resources/Guides 📓 ⋆˚.⋆

Possible APIs:

• Google Books API - Google Books API Documentation
• Open Library API - Open Library API Documentation
• Core API - Core API Documentation
• Semantic Scholar API - Semantic Scholar API Documentation
• Poemist API - Poemist API Documentation
• PoetryDB API - PoetryDB API Documentation
• News API - News API Documentation

Learning Resources

• Learning React Native - Watch here
• React Native in 4 hrs - Watch here
• React Native Tutorial for Beginners - Watch here
• MERN Tutorials - Watch here
• React Native + MongoDB - Watch here
• Full Stack Application using Expo - Watch here
• MERN Stack in 2 hrs - Watch here

Using APIs

• Intro to APIs - Watch here
• Fetching an API in React Native - Watch here

⋆˚.⋆ 👥 Meet the Team 👥 ⋆˚.⋆

⭐ Project Manager:

• Tamanna Khurana

⭐ Industry Mentor:

• Judith Liem

🪼 Team Members:

• Jazmin Gutierrez
• Alexander Chan
• Afra Ibnat
• Nathan Sujatno