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Releases, format announcements, and the occasional argument about where course software should go.
Earlier posts
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- The notebook is where learning happens. Polya should meet you there.Notes
- Polya reads scanned pages now, and a pass over the rough edgesProduct
- Coming to Lectra: Recently Deleted, and documents that say when they are arrivingProduct
- Polya now works inside Claude and ChatGPT, with your study mode attachedProduct
- Scope 11.0.8 and 11.0.10: a clear first step, plain errors, and a calmer browserRelease
- Scope 11.0.6: your search index stays on your computer, and the side panel is goneRelease
- Letting an assistant use your Mac from Lectra, and the limits we built firstEngineering
- Lectra 9: a tool wheel, a quieter dock, and documents that open with their pagesRelease
- The copy Scope sees is now the one you marked upEngineering
- What we won't claim about lecture recording, and whyEngineering
- The user count is checked by handEngineering
- Keyboard commands, a new tool picker, and a signature that finally savesRelease
- Lectra Studio: a real canvas, next to your notesRelease
- How we count people using Scope, and what we never collectSecurity
- Sending to Lectra stops guessing, and Lectra comes to the MacProduct
- Who teaches this, and does it fit my weekProduct
- A working prototype of the instructor side, and you can click through itProduct
- Course indexing stops getting stuckEngineering
- Canvascope is now ScopeCompany
- Introducing .lectra, a document you can actually hand to someoneEngineering
- Lectra can now reach your Mac from your iPad, from anywhereEngineering
- You can now open the same Lectra document and annotate it together, liveProduct
- Lectra's coding workspace got an AI agent and real SSHEngineering
- Lectra Notes is now on the App StoreRelease
- Scope can now take action, and it's built so it can't do your work for youEngineering
- Lectra runs a real terminal, git, and Python on the iPad nowEngineering
- Python notebooks are first-class Lectra documents nowProduct
- Lectra PDFs can now come back into browser workflowsProduct
- Lectra moved into App Store release shapeRelease
- Lectra gained on-device intelligence and Shortcuts hooksProduct
- On-device AI comes to ScopeEngineering
- DropBridge v2: the handoff between Lectra and Scope is now nearly instantEngineering
- DropBridge got safer production routingEngineering
- Student Profiles: AI that doesn't treat every student the sameProduct
- Scope added real account-event protectionSecurity
- Scope v10 connected AI, planning, and DropBridgeEngineering
- Syllabus autopilot became the planner prototypeProduct
- v8 made the side panel a real AI workspaceEngineering
- Scope 7.0.0: turning Canvas into a real student workspaceProduct
- When Canvas went down at Berkeley, your materials didn't have toNotes
- Reliability is the featureNotes
- Scope doesn't just search anymore. It predicts.Product
- A class glitch, and a quiet saveNotes
- Canvas to iPad to annotated to back to work, in secondsProduct
- Wait... how are you getting that?Notes
- From seven steps to oneProduct
- The biggest update yet: from extension to full workflow platformProduct
- Canvas was built for institutions. We're building for students.Notes
- Search by intent, not by keywordProduct
- We're not building a faster AirDropNotes
- Tune your own searchProduct
- Search that understands what you meantProduct
- Scope 4.0.0: the most underrated feature is removing seven stepsProduct
- 100,000 files indexedMilestone
- A first look at Lectra, our iPad appEngineering
- Scope is live on the Chrome Web StoreMilestone