Real-time collaboration
Eight people in one note, live cursors, typing indicators and no merge conflicts. Built on CRDTs, so edits converge no matter who typed what or in which order.
Now in beta for course groups
Where knowledge connects.
Your course group writes one set of lecture and lab notes, together and in real time. Then Synapse turns them into summaries, flashcards and quizzes that are private to you — grounded in your notes, never invented.
- One authoritative note per lecture
- Private AI revision material
- Free while in beta
Features
Everything a course group actually needs
Built around how students really work: together during the semester, alone before the exam.
Lecture notes
One authoritative set per module, organised into folders by week.
Lab notes
Kept structurally separate from lectures, with code blocks that look like code.
Private AI Study Hub
Summaries, flashcards and quizzes generated from your group’s notes — visible only to you. Nothing you generate ever appears in the shared workspace.
Flashcards
Spaced repetition that schedules each card for the day you would have forgotten it.
Quiz generator
Multiple choice, true/false, short answer, fill-in-the-blank and scenarios, graded with explanations.
Fast search
Every note, file, folder and comment across every module — ranked, highlighted, and forgiving of typos.
Export
Any note, folder or entire module to Markdown or Word, with formatting and folder structure intact.
Why Synapse
Note-taking apps were not built for a course group
Notion is a blank page. Google Docs has no idea what a module is. Neither turns a semester of notes into something you can revise from.
One note, not eleven copies
A shared drive ends the semester with “lecture4_final_v3_ACTUAL.docx”. A workspace has one authoritative note per lecture, with full history behind it.
Revision that comes from your notes
Generic AI explains the textbook. Synapse only ever answers from what your group wrote — and cites the note it came from, so you can check it.
Shared work, private revision
Your flashcards, quizzes and summaries are yours. Nothing you generate is visible to your group unless you deliberately export it.
Structured for a module, not a wiki
Lecture notes and lab notes are separate by design, so “make me a quiz from the labs” is one click rather than a search.
How it works
From the lecture theatre to the exam
The same four steps, every week of the semester.
- 1
Create a workspace per module
Digital Forensics, Network Security, Cloud Security. Add your group by username; they land straight in.
- 2
Write the notes together
Everyone types in the same note during the lecture. Cursors, comments and suggestions — no version to reconcile afterwards.
- 3
Generate your own revision material
Pick a source — the whole module, just the labs, one week’s folder — and generate summaries, flashcards or a quiz.
- 4
Revise, and ask questions
Spaced repetition brings cards back when you need them. Ask the chatbot anything about the module and it answers from your notes.
Start with one module
Free while we are in beta. Bring your course group and see how one shared set of notes changes the semester.
Create your workspace