One-keystroke capture
Press d, type the moment, save. Writing something down never feels like a task. AI files it into the right categories for you.
An evidence bank for college essays · private beta
Where the stories live until the essay needs them.
Library of College is where you dump the moments of your life all year. When a supplemental prompt shows up, it finds which of your stories answer it, and tells you why.
Free while in beta. I'll email you myself when a spot opens. Nothing else.
Built by one high-school senior, in the middle of application season.
Collect now. Retrieve at 11:58pm.
The best essay material never shows up while you're staring at the prompt. It shows up in June, at a Sunday shift, in the middle of something else. By the time “Tell us about a community you belong to” arrives, the moment is eight months old.
Dump the story. Press d anywhere and type the moment; messy is fine. AI titles it and files it into the right categories while you get on with your day.
Paste the prompt. Drop in any supplemental. ✦ Match ranks your stories strong or possible, each with a concrete why, and Breakdown decodes what the prompt is secretly asking.
Write from evidence. Draft with receipts instead of a blank page. Once a story is spent on a school, its chip says so, and the next prompt starts from what's left.
What it does.
✦ Prompt matching
Paste a real prompt; get your best-fitting stories back, each with a reason. Breakdown adds the question under the question, a gap analysis, and an outline.
Two-speed search
⌘K opens Verbatim for exact words and ✦ Ideas for meaning. “That essay about losing” finds the chess story.
Used-in tracking
Luggage-tag chips mark which school each story was spent on. Nothing gets reused by accident.
A warm reading room
Serif reading view, paper palette, full dark mode. It reads like a notebook, not a database.
The whole thing runs on the keyboard: ⌘K search · d quick dump · n new entry · jk review
It will not write your essay.
The AI here only works on what you've already written. It files things and finds them again. It can tell you which of your stories fits a prompt, and why. What goes on the page is you. That's not a limitation to apologize for; for a college-essay tool in 2026, it's the point.
Your stories are yours.
Every account is approved by hand; nobody else, including other users, can ever read your library. The whole library is snapshotted daily and can be rolled back to any minute. And you can export everything as JSON whenever you like. No lock-in, no formats to fight.
I built this because my own stories kept disappearing. I'd remember the perfect detail for an essay two days after submitting it. So I made a place to keep them, and now I use it every night — I'm a senior, applying right now, same as you. The name riffs on the Library of Congress: a library of one applicant, catalogued just as seriously.
— K.
Shipped in August: prompt Breakdown, ⌘K semantic search, an editable per-school prompt map.
Fair questions.
What exactly is Library of College?
A personal evidence bank for college applications. You collect real moments and small scenes all year. When the supplemental essays arrive, it surfaces which of your own stories fit each prompt. It helps you find your material; the writing stays yours.
Why is there a waitlist?
LoC is one student's tool, built and run mid-application-season, opening up slowly enough that one person can keep it fast and personal. Joining the waitlist is the way in.
Why not just a Google Doc?
A doc named college stuff can hold your stories; it just can't hand you the right one back. In October you'd be scrolling through forty paragraphs looking for the restaurant one. LoC files every entry the moment you dump it, tracks which school each has been spent on, and matches all of them against a real prompt in seconds.
Is using it cheating?
No. What colleges object to is submitting words that aren't yours. LoC never generates essay text; every sentence in your library is one you typed about your own life, and every sentence in the essay is one you wrote. Keeping good notes on yourself isn't cheating — it's what strong applicants already do, on paper.
Is my writing used to train anything?
No. Your entries live in your private library and are only sent to an AI model at the moment you ask for a title, a match, or a search — never for training.
Does the AI write my essays?
No. See above; it's designed not to.
Application season is here.
Start the library early.
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