This post is my submission for DEV Education Track: Build Apps with Google AI Studio.
What I Built
I built Smart Study Buddy, a personalized study assistant app using Google AI Studio and Gemini. The app allows students to input their study notes or textbook content and receive:
- - Summarized bullet points
- - Multiple-choice and short-answer questions
- - Simple explanations of difficult concepts
- - Visual mind map suggestions
- - Optional translation of content
This helps learners understand and revise content quickly and effectively using the power of AI.
Prompt I Used in Google AI Studio:
You are an intelligent AI study assistant for a student learning complex subjects.
Given a block of text (like class notes, textbook paragraphs, or lecture transcripts), perform the following tasks:
- Summarize the main points in bullet form.
- Create 3 multiple-choice questions and 2 short-answer questions based on the content.
- Generate a simple explanation of difficult concepts.
- Provide a visual representation suggestion (like a diagram or mind map idea).
- Translate the content into [User's Language] if requested. Keep answers concise and student-friendly.
Other features I used:
Google Translate API for multilingual support
Gemini-generated output directly integrated via Google AI Studio
Demo
Try the applet: Smart Study Buddy on Google AI Studio https://aistudio.google.com/app/prompts?state=%7B%22ids%22:%5B%221cpG8B-cZqRGZK3Vc6m1gCyPe43k83NzG%22%5D,%22action%22:%22open%22,%22userId%22:%22107436125392132246389%22,%22resourceKeys%22:%7B%7D%7D&usp=sharing
My Experience
- Working through the Google AI Studio track was a great experience. I learned:
- How to use Gemini prompts effectively to handle structured educational outputs
- The importance of crafting clear, layered instructions to guide the AI’s behavior
How powerful Gemini can be for interactive learning use-cases
That simple prompts, when carefully engineered, can simulate advanced tutor-like behavior
Surprisingly, I found that Gemini could even suggest visuals and simplify dense content in a way that could help school and university students grasp topics faster. This project motivated me to explore more education-focused tools using AI.
Top comments (2)
Excellent use of AI. Great to see more and more of these customized Ai assistants.
Really cool approach using Gemini for structured educational output! The prompt engineering here is solid — layering summarization + quiz generation + concept simplification into a single prompt is the right call for a study tool.
One thing I've been exploring in a similar space: the gap between "AI generates study material" and "student actually retains it." The quiz generation piece you have is key for that. I've been using SummaryForge which takes a similar angle — you feed it long readings and it spits out condensed notes + auto-generated quizzes. The combination of summaries AND active recall questions is what makes the knowledge stick.
The mind map suggestion feature is a nice differentiator though. Have you thought about generating actual visual diagrams programmatically (like with Mermaid.js) instead of just text suggestions? That could take this from "study assistant" to "full study suite."
Great submission!