Athena is a chrome extension for highlighting text on web pages. Athena is used by students and staff at universities such as Stanford, UC Berkeley, UCLA, Harvard, Princeton, and more. I designed and built everything.

Highlighting UX

I designed and engineered a novel UI/UX for highlighting text in a desktop browser.

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Minimize switching between keyboard and mouse

  1. Auto-focus text input for notes
  2. Submit with cmd/ctrl + enter

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List of Highlights and Notes

Saved documents are displayed in chronological order. For the sake of utilizing rough memory of when a document was read, documents are organized in the following groups: "today/yesterday", "last week", "this month" and each month beyond.

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Open document to specific highlight