This is a submission for the Hacktoberfest Open-Source AI Challenge Week 3: Slow and Steady

Every Friday my kindergartner's folder comes home full. Most of it is worksheets and coloring pages, and somewhere in between there is sometimes a slip or a flyer. I have to look through all of it to find the one paper that matters.

What I Built

Backpack is a small app that reads those papers for you. You photograph each one with your phone, drop the photos on a page in your browser, and Gemma 4 reads them on your own laptop. A few seconds per paper later you have the week: every date in order with one button that puts them in your calendar, every to-do with a checkbox, and a single line for the papers that need nothing from you.

The parent who used to sort the pile is the one who gets to be lazy now.

Some things are missing on purpose: no account, no sync, no settings page, no model picker.…