Line Calendar

Imagine a calendar that doesn't overwhelm you. Line is an Ai accelerated pocket calendar, boosted by You.com it provides you with up-to date and accurate information like summaries, links and maps.

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Inspiration

I recently read Ben Sheridan's paper on Human Centered Artificial Intelligence where he argues that Ai is best used as a tool that accelerates humans rather than trying to replace them. We wanted to design a "super-tool" that meaningfully augmented a user's workday. We felt that current calendar apps are a messy and convoluted mess of grids flashing lights, alarms and events all vying for the user's attention. The chief design behind Line is simple, your workday and time is linear so why shouldn't your calendar be linear?. Now taking this base and augmenting it with just the right amount of Ai.

What it does

You get a calendar that tells you about an upcoming lunch with a person at a restaurant, gives you some information about the restaurant along with links to reviews and directions that you can choose to view. No voice-text frustration, no generative clutter.

How we built it

We used React Js for our frontend along with a docker image for certain backend tasks and hosting a small language model for on metal event summarization you can self host this too for an off the cloud experience, if provided the you.com API key is used to get up to date and accurate information via the smart search query.

Challenges we ran into

We tackled a lot of challenges particularly around the interoperability of our tech stack particularly a potential multi-database system that allows users to choose what database they wanted to use we simply ran out of time to implement this so for our demo we stuck with a firebase implementation , we also wanted to ensure that the option to host your own docker image to run some of the backend functions was present and as a result a lot of time was put into making both an appealing front and backend.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

We're really happy to have been able to use the powerful you.com smart and research search APIs to obtain precise data! Currently even voice assistants like Siri or Google use a generative approach and if quizzed on subjects that are out of their domain of knowledge they are likely to just make things up (including reviews and addresses), which could be super annoying on a busy workday and we're glad that we've avoided this pitfall, we're also really happy at how transparent our tech stack is leaving the door open for the open source community to assist in improving our product!

What we learned

We learnt a lot over the course of two days, everything from RAG technology to Dockerization, Huggingface spaces, react js, python and so much more!

What's next for Line Calendar

Improvements to the UI, ability to swap out databases, connections via the google calendar API and notion APIs to import and transform calendars from other software. Better context awareness for the you.com integration. Better backend support to allow organizations to deploy and scale on their own hardware.

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