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Turn Lecture Screenshots Into Searchable Study Notes

Save lecture slides, problem-set notes, textbook pages, PDFs, and research screenshots. SnapStash AI keeps them searchable so exam review starts with what you remember, not endless camera-roll scrolling.

The Student Screenshot Overload

You screenshot lecture slides, textbook pages, and research findings constantly — but come exam time, finding what you need feels impossible.

Thousands of lecture and textbook screenshots with no organization, making exam prep a nightmare

Unable to search within screenshot images for specific formulas, definitions, or concepts

Research paper screenshots and citations scattered across multiple devices with no unified system

Your Study Second Brain

Search by Concept Before Exams

Search for phrases like "Bayes theorem example," "cell respiration diagram," or "that slide about opportunity cost" and pull back the exact capture with its summary.

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Extract Text from Slides, Textbooks, and Papers

OCR reads text from lecture slides, handwritten notes, textbook pages, and research papers across many languages — including complex tables and diagrams.

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Permanent Recall Across Semesters

Last semester's lecture screenshots become this semester's review material. Premium keeps every capture searchable so the reference shelf compounds rather than resetting.

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Chat With Your Course Collections

Group screenshots into a course collection, then ask the AI to generate practice questions or summarize a topic — answers are grounded in your actual lectures and readings.

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Export to Obsidian, Logseq, or Notion

Take a semester's worth of reading captures into your existing study graph as Markdown, or push them into a Notion course database with OCR text and source links preserved.

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I screenshot important parts while reading papers, but never remember where I saw them. Now I ask "that statistical method" and it finds the source too.

Sarah Kim

PhD Candidate

Frequently Asked Questions

Use a system that extracts text, keeps course or topic tags, and lets you search by concept. Manual albums help with small classes, but AI OCR and natural-language search are better once screenshots span multiple courses and semesters.

Yes. When OCR can read the visible text, SnapStash makes formulas, definitions, slide titles, and surrounding notes searchable. For diagrams, summaries and tags help you find the right capture by topic.

Yes. Our advanced OCR engine can recognize most handwritten text, especially when it's reasonably legible. It works best with printed and digital text but handles neat handwriting well too.

There's no separate student plan, but the SnapStash Free tier was rebuilt with students in mind: unlimited saves and AI analysis, with the last 30 days fully searchable and chat-ready. Premium adds permanent recall across every semester — useful when you need a reference from two years ago.

Yes. The AI auto-categorizes by detected subject, and you can create custom tags for specific courses, semesters, or study topics. The combination of AI tagging and manual organization gives you full control.

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