Notes2Digital is a project I built a while ago, back before the massive AI developer boom was even a thing. Probably now this project can be done by anyone literally in under 15 minutes, but I’m still proud of it.
Back in the day when I was building it, there were no seamless AI coding agents or built-in developer toolkits. I literally built the entire thing by just grinding through the default ChatGPT interface, constantly copy-pasting raw blocks of code back and forth until it actually worked. I used gpt-4o model for this, which now is considered ancient.
The concept is super straightforward—you just paste your API token, and the tool converts images directly into text. It relies on an optical character recognition setup, which honestly is super standard and cheap to deploy right now. Super handy for students because it is pay-as-you-go pricing logic.
Back when I was piecing this together, getting that backend logic to connect and actually execute was a massive breakthrough for me. It was pure hustle, just brute-forcing the problem without any of the automated shortcuts we have today.
I didn't want to just leave it as some clunky, terminal-looking script, so I decided to wrap the whole thing in a highly polished website. I designed and built the entire website on Framer. The visual side of this project ended up being incredibly impressive, and honestly, even though the tool itself is quite old now, the web design still holds up perfectly. I focused heavily on making the UI feel premium, clear, and structured, which created this really cool contrast.
Underneath, app is React+Next.js.
I basically built it as a personal utility tool just to throw in my portfolio. It wasn't about trying to launch a massive startup or scale user acquisition; it was just about proving I can take a raw technical utility, like AI when only tech people were familiar with it. And package it with a great visual hierarchy. Iterate and iterate until it works. It is pure proof that I can operate as a solo executor, figuring out the messy mechanics on the backend while still delivering slick design on the front end.
The website and tool is live, and reachable at: