Seamless Note is a note taking website with a tag-based organizational system. Our system seamlessly recommends tags for your notes based on their contents.

• Manuel A Hernandez-Estrada Jr(manuelh3)
• Rahul Miriyala(rmiriya2)
• Abhay Varmaraja(abhaymv2)
• Patrick Feltes(pfeltes2)
• PM: Aria Malkani

• Install Git and set it up. Instructions are here.
• Install Python >= 2.7 and make sure you have pip installed.
• Clone this repository, run git clone https://github.com/CS196Illinois/SeamlessNote.git
• Install all Python modules: run pip2 install -r requirements.txt when in the SeamlessNote directory.
• Install MySQL Community Server.
• Install MySQL Workbench.
• Follow MySQL set up instructions (see below).
• Create a file in the repository called secrets.py and give it the following format.

DB_USERNAME = ''
DB_PASSWORD = ''
DB_NAME = ''

• Fill in the above values with what you specified when you created your connection/schema in MySQL workbench.
• Navigate to the Seamless Note folder and open the python shell by typing python or python2 in terminal/command prompt.
• To create all of the database tables, run the following commands.

>>> import database
>>> from app import db
>>> db.create_all()

• Follow the running instructions to run the Flask app. On your first run, make sure you go to https://localhost:5000/register and create a username and password so you can login when necessary.

• Once you have MySQL Community Server and Workbench installed, open Workbench.
• Go to MySQL connections and create a new connection.
• Once in the connection create a new schema using the schemas tab on the left.
• Refresh your schemas and double click on your new schema to set it as default.

• Make sure that your MySQL local server is running (using System Preferences or Workbench).
• Navigate to the seamlessnote repository folder on your computer.
• Run python run.py.
• Open your favorite browser and go to localhost:5000.