SPLASH HQ

The manual, the calendar, and every email you'll ever need to send — for running Splash & Sprout at Yale.

This semester

Every deadline and every email, in the order they happen. Dates are computed from Setup — change a date there and the whole spine moves with it.

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    Email studio

    Pick a template — it arrives already filled in from your semester Setup. Fix anything by hand right in the preview, then copy it into Gmail or the website's email panel. {{user.first_name}} tags stay as-is: the website fills those in for each recipient when it sends.

    Handbook

    The Hitchhiker's Guide to running Splash, the website documentation, and the 2025 email archive — all searchable, right here.
    Docs last embedded July 2026, mostly written by the 2025 boards — treat specific dates and links with suspicion. Spot something stale? Fix the wiki page in wiki/, bump its “Last reviewed” line, and re-run rebuild.py.

    Ask the handbook a question

    Real semantic answers, powered by Google's free Gemini API. The whole handbook (~120k tokens — too big to paste into a chat window) rides along as context over the API instead. Get a free key at aistudio.google.com/apikey; it's stored only in this browser.

    Or take the knowledge with you

    — the full pack (~120k tokens) fits Claude, NotebookLM, or Gemini via file upload, but overflows most chat paste boxes. Smaller pieces:

    Setup

    Fill this in once at the start of the semester. Everything saves automatically in this browser; download the config file into the Drive so your co-directors can load the same one.

    Changes save automatically in this browser.