Brainstorming features
Interactive Flash Songcards: Transform study materials into interactive flash song cards where users can input specific sections of their notes to listen to corresponding parts of the mnemonic song, reinforcing memory through multisensory engagement.
Collaborative Playlist: A feature allowing users to create shared “study” playlists with classmates, fostering collaborative learning through group song generation. Users can contribute to and refine lyrics collectively.
Progressive Song Challenges: A gamified feature that introduces progressively challenging exercises, prompting users to create mnemonic songs to get coins, which they can use to unlock more songs to create notes with.
Custom Song Generator: Empowers users to customize the musical backdrop of their mnemonic songs. They can choose genres, beats, and instruments to create personalized and memorable musical compositions. Sort of like a filter to choose songs they like.
Listen-and-Learn Playback: Users can input background music (BGM) and lyrics as text, and the app transforms them into a listenable soundtrack with an AI-generated voice singing the lyrics. This feature provides an auditory learning experience with the new songs.
Parody Maker: Similar to TikTok, users can create karaoke videos with timed lyrics. To address concerns about privacy or preferences, the app allows users to generate karaoke videos without their voice, maintaining anonymity or enabling the use of different vocal styles.
Memory Refresher Tool: To aid users who forget a verse, the app incorporates a memory refresher tool. It provides verse summaries and organizes the song logically, helping users recall specific sections quickly.
Adaptive Song Adjustment: Users can adjust the attributes of the song to better suit their needs. This feature enables customization, allowing users to emphasize specific notes or elements to enhance the effectiveness of the mnemonic song.
Interactive Quiz Integration: The app includes a quiz feature where users can be tested on their knowledge of the song. Relevant parts of the song are played during the quiz to reinforce learning and aid in memory retention.
Song quizzes: Let users generate quizzes based on their song card. Quizzes could be internal or could be shared with other users on the platform.
Weekly Songwriting Competition: Drop weekly topics and hold a songwriting competition. The song card with the most upvotes wins the competition and the author gets points.
Thematic Collections: Have thematic collections of song cards on the website (e.g. WWII, Geometry, Chemistry etc.). Users can browse these collections and explore new topics/ learn new material.
Additional Context: In certain contexts, songs/notes are better with brevity but under that condition, users may desire more additional context to the note, including official sources. This context would be separate from the song memorization features.
Karaoke Studying: To help users track songs to memorize, users can manually create settings for the karaoke of their notes (by clicking space for every word, or some other means).
Audio Edits: In certain cases, users may want to adjust BPM or speed of the songs they’re creating on their notes to make memorization or lexical emphasis better.
Note Rankings: On thematic collections, notes are displayed by order of rankings. This is determined by users' likes or ratings of notes.
Community Edits: Allow users on the app to suggest edits to the public song cards to (1) make them more memorable or (2) fact-check the information in the song
Personalized Study Plans: Users can create personalized study plans incorporating the mnemonic songs. The app suggests optimal times for song reviews based on individual learning patterns, maximizing the effectiveness of memory retention.
Narrative Song Storyboarding: Allows users to create mnemonic songs with a narrative structure. The app assists in storyboarding the song to enhance coherence and memory recall through a logical and engaging sequence.
Visual Metaphor Integration: Users can associate visual metaphors with specific sections of the song. This feature enhances visual memory reinforcement by linking song content with relevant images or symbols.
Expressive Voice Options: Users can choose from a variety of expressive AI-generated voices for singing the lyrics. This feature adds a personal touch to the learning experience and accommodates different preferences for vocal styles.
App Outline
Concept: SongifiedNote
Purpose: To elevate note memorization, the app transforms school notes into memorable songs, blending music with learning for enhanced retention and an enjoyable study experience.
Operational Principle: Users input class notes, and the app seamlessly formats them into a song template, incorporating background music, syllable alignment, and a rhyme scheme. Simplifying the process, it turns information into musical mnemonics for optimized memorization. Cannot be used for non-educational content.
Concept: StudyTool[SongifiedNote]
Purpose: The app enhances song-based study by providing users with intuitive tools to create, playback, edit, and self-quiz. It aims to optimize learning through personalized and immersive musical experiences.
Operational Principle: Users effortlessly create and playback personalized song audio, fine-tune their content with easy editing, and self-quiz using built-in features. The app ensures a holistic approach to song-based learning.
Concept: Ownership
Purpose: to allow the moderation of songs and to give users the ability to control access controls of their song
Operational Principle: The author of a song can control access to the recipe and block unwanted users from viewing the song
Concept: Collection[SongifiedNote]
Purpose: Simplifying the discovery of related songs, the app aims to create an effortless experience for users to find and organize songs that resonate with their preferences and themes.
Operational Principle: Users curate a "Collection" by selecting songs that share a common theme or interest. The app facilitates easy navigation by allowing users to view and access all songs within a Collection, streamlining the process of discovering and enjoying related songs.
Concept AccessControl [AppComponent]
Purpose: To make it possible for sharing songs with trusted users
Operational Principle: A user who is granted with access to a song can view the song and navigate to it within the application; Without access, none of these actions can be performed.
Concept Visibility [UserContent]
Purpose: Empowering users with selective interaction, the app ensures a tailored experience by managing the subset of UserContent accessible to a user. This concept allows users to effortlessly navigate to and engage with a curated collection of content that aligns with their preferences.
Operational Principle: By default, users can navigate within the app to all UserContent they have "access" to. If a user desires to streamline their experience and no longer wishes to see specific UserContent, the app offers configuration options. Users can choose to exclude certain content, ensuring a personalized and clutter-free navigation interface.
Scrapbook of comparables
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Storyboard and sketches
