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EngineeringAugust 31, 2026 · EngineeringWhat we won't claim about lecture recording, and whyLectra records audio alongside your notes. Capture passed its first checks on a real iPad this week — playback, transcription, and ink sync did not, so this post does not claim them.Read the post →
August 29, 2026The user count is checked by handEngineeringAugust 24, 2026Keyboard commands, a new tool picker, and a signature that finally savesReleaseAugust 21, 2026Lectra Studio: a real canvas, next to your notesReleaseAugust 19, 2026How we count people using Scope, and what we never collectSecurityAugust 14, 2026Sending to Lectra stops guessing, and Lectra comes to the MacProductAugust 4, 2026Who teaches this, and does it fit my weekProductAugust 2, 2026A working prototype of the instructor side, and you can click through itProductJuly 29, 2026Course indexing stops getting stuckEngineeringJuly 28, 2026Canvascope is now ScopeCompanyJuly 21, 2026Introducing .lectra, a document you can actually hand to someoneEngineeringJuly 15, 2026Lectra can now reach your Mac from your iPad, from anywhereEngineeringJuly 12, 2026You can now open the same Lectra document and annotate it together, liveProductJuly 9, 2026Lectra's coding workspace got an AI agent and real SSHEngineeringJuly 2, 2026Lectra Notes is now on the App StoreReleaseJune 25, 2026Scope can now take action, and it's built so it can't do your work for youEngineeringJune 24, 2026Lectra runs a real terminal, git, and Python on the iPad nowEngineeringJune 23, 2026Python notebooks are first-class Lectra documents nowProductJune 21, 2026Lectra PDFs can now come back into browser workflowsProductJune 20, 2026Lectra moved into App Store release shapeReleaseJune 19, 2026Lectra gained on-device intelligence and Shortcuts hooksProductJune 16, 2026On-device AI comes to ScopeEngineeringJune 14, 2026DropBridge v2: the handoff between Lectra and Scope is now nearly instantEngineeringJune 14, 2026DropBridge got safer production routingEngineeringJune 13, 2026Student Profiles: AI that doesn't treat every student the sameProductJune 13, 2026Scope added real account-event protectionSecurityJune 11, 2026Scope v10 connected AI, planning, and DropBridgeEngineeringJune 9, 2026Syllabus autopilot became the planner prototypeProductMay 28, 2026v8 made the side panel a real AI workspaceEngineeringMay 24, 2026Scope 7.0.0: turning Canvas into a real student workspaceProductMay 21, 2026When Canvas went down at Berkeley, your materials didn't have toNotesMay 19, 2026Reliability is the featureNotesApril 21, 2026Scope doesn't just search anymore. It predicts.ProductApril 18, 2026A class glitch, and a quiet saveNotesApril 16, 2026Canvas to iPad to annotated to back to work, in secondsProductApril 14, 2026Wait... how are you getting that?NotesApril 11, 2026From seven steps to oneProductApril 9, 2026The biggest update yet: from extension to full workflow platformProductApril 7, 2026Canvas was built for institutions. We're building for students.NotesApril 4, 2026Search by intent, not by keywordProductMarch 21, 2026We're not building a faster AirDropNotesMarch 19, 2026Tune your own searchProductMarch 17, 2026Search that understands what you meantProductMarch 14, 2026Scope 4.0.0: the most underrated feature is removing seven stepsProductMarch 12, 2026100,000 files indexedMilestoneMarch 9, 2026A first look at Lectra, our iPad appEngineeringMarch 7, 2026Scope is live on the Chrome Web StoreMilestone