How NapkinNote works
NapkinNote gives every school its own private note-sharing and marketplace hub. Students share class notes with their classmates; admins and teachers keep the content trustworthy; nobody from another school can see your stuff. Here's the whole thing from top to bottom.
Five steps from sign-up to study group
Sign up with your school email
Use the email address your school gave you. NapkinNote
automatically figures out which school you belong to from the
domain (for example @demohigh.example puts you in
Demo High School). You'll get a confirmation email to verify
the address before your account activates.
If your school isn't set up yet, sign up anyway and we'll add it. You can also start with the demo below to see how it feels before you commit.
Create an accountFind your courses, see classmates' notes
Every school has its own list of courses (your real classes, loaded in by the school admin). Browse the dashboard to see recent notes from students in your school, or filter to a specific course to find study material for tonight's homework or next week's quiz.
- Search by title, content, tag, or course
- Bookmark notes you want to come back to
- Like the ones that actually helped
Upload your own notes — with AI summaries
Drop in a typed note, a PDF of a handout, a photo of your notebook page, or a combination. NapkinNote extracts the text, indexes it for search, and can generate an AI study guide with practice problems + an answer key from your note's content.
- Supports PDFs, images, DOCX, TXT, and Markdown
- Batch-upload a whole semester at once
- Tag notes so classmates can find them
Buy, sell, and swap with the marketplace
Stuck with a textbook from last year you'll never crack open again? List it. Need a graphing calculator before Monday? Buy one from another student at your school. The marketplace is school-scoped, so prices stay fair and pickups are local.
- Add photos, price, and a condition grade
- Chat in-app to arrange a meetup location
- Admins can remove anything that violates school rules
Admins and teachers keep it honest
Each school has its own admins with tools to moderate notes, comments, and listings — plus automatic filters that flag profanity or test content for review. Teachers can be given access to review notes in their subject. If something does slip through, any student can report it in one click.
- Per-school moderation, invisible to other tenants
- Profanity + test-content keyword flagging
- Full activity logs for safety investigations
What you get out of the box
Multi-school tenancy
Every school is isolated — students, courses, notes, and marketplace listings never cross the aisle.
AI study guides
One click generates a summary, practice problems, and an answer key from any note's content.
OCR for photos & PDFs
Google Cloud Vision extracts text from scanned handouts and notebook photos so they're searchable.
Student marketplace
Per-school buy/sell for textbooks, calculators, and supplies with in-app messaging and meetup spots.
Admin & teacher tools
Each school gets its own admin dashboard to manage users, lock or remove content, and review reports.
Safe by default
Email verification, CSRF protection, rate limiting, profanity filtering, and audit logs throughout.
Try the live demo
We run a demo tenant, Demo High School, pre-loaded with courses, sample notes, and marketplace listings. Log in with either of the accounts below to explore. The demo resets periodically — feel free to create notes, comments, and listings.
Frequently asked
Can students from other schools see my notes?
No. Every piece of content — notes, comments, listings, even the course catalog — is scoped to your school. Students at a different school literally can't see it in search, on the marketplace, or by visiting URLs directly.
Is posting past tests allowed?
No. Tests, quizzes, and exam content are off-limits regardless of whether they're old. See the Academic Integrity Policy for the full list of what you can and can't share.
How do I bring NapkinNote to my school?
Send us a message. We'll get your school set up, import your course catalog, and help onboard your first admins. Most schools go from zero to launched in under a week.