Two classmates, one unfinished project.

We studied in the same batch, sat through the same lectures and spent the same hours with long, dense texts: papers, lecture notes, chapters we had to understand and then actually remember.

For our academic project we asked a simple question. What if you could ask a document something, get the answer together with the page it came from, and then be quizzed on it? Reading is the easy part. Recall is the hard part, so we built the whole thing around recall.

Office commitments took the evenings and weekends the project needed. It worked well enough to demo, but it was not ready for production and parts of it were still rough. So it stayed in a folder, unfinished, longer than either of us wanted.

So we came back to it. We rebuilt the foundations: private file storage, background processing, search that keeps every answer inside one document, and page citations you can click. Then we gave it a proper face, and finished it.

Late is better than never.

Marginalia is complete enough to use, and the code is public. Use it for your own studies, read it to see how a document question-and-answer app is put together, fork it for your own ideas, or help us make it better.