Crossword Notes is an educational website that converts study notes into an interactive crossword puzzle. The goal is not entertainment alone; it is to support learning through active recall. When you solve a crossword, you repeatedly retrieve key terms and concepts from memory using limited cues. This process aligns with well-studied principles in cognitive psychology showing that retrieval practice strengthens long-term retention and improves the ability to apply knowledge under time pressure.
The site is designed to be fast and practical: you paste course notes, choose a target number of answers, and generate a compact square grid with intersecting entries. The resulting puzzle can be used as a study activity before quizzes and exams, as a way to check conceptual understanding, or as a structured review for cumulative finals.
Crossword Notes is an independently developed software project by a Computer Science student at the University of Florida. The project emphasizes production-grade engineering: deterministic extraction for answers and grid construction, plus a bounded clue-generation component intended to keep clues grounded in the input material.
If you have feedback, bug reports, or suggestions for improving the learning experience, you can reach the developer by email at kerwinjrlarrobis@gmail.com.