The Archive Project

The Archive Project aims to be a clean, centralized, and durable archive of academic resources for college students—gathered from scattered sources and reorganized for easier access, reading, and studying.

The Archive Project is a community-hosted system for organizing study materials in a way that respects the user's time, attention, and privacy. It gathers PDFs, images (even handwritten ones), YouTube links, and plain text files into a structured archive that is searchable and readable.

The focus is not just on storing documents, but on making them usable. Instead of flipping through a 60-page PDF or zooming into a blurry image, users can read content in clean Markdown, view as slides, bookmark sections, and generate flashcards or quizzes based on the material itself.

No signups. No gamification. No noise.

This is not a social platform. There are no accounts, comments, feeds, or followers. It’s not a product, either—there are no ads, no analytics, and no "engagement features." You will not be nudged to come back or given notifications. It's a tool that works when you need it, and stays quiet when you don't.

It is not trying to replace classes or teachers. It's a complement to the messy but valuable ecosystem of shared files that already exists—just with a better way to navigate and read them.