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Arcaneum Focus
A reading companion for curious minds
A browser extension for focused reading and research across web pages and PDFs. Highlight passages, add floating notes, connect ideas, generate citations, and use a Pomodoro timer — all in one reading workspace. Your data stays local, with no account required.
Hi Product Hunt! 👋
I'm the maker behind Arcaneum Focus, a reading and research companion for your browser.
As an English Literature student, I spend a lot of time reading articles, working with PDFs, highlighting passages, and keeping track of ideas. I wanted a more connected way to do that without constantly switching between different tools.
So I built Arcaneum Focus: a calm reader mode with highlights, floating notes, and "strings" you draw between them, plus one-click citations. All of it works on web articles and PDFs alike, so you don't need a separate tool for each.
It's free, needs no account, and everything stays in your browser. Arcaneum Focus is part of The Arcaneum, an independent publication focused on long-form academic writing. I'm building this as an early-stage, independent project, and I'd love to hear what could make it more useful.
I'd love to know: what would you want a tool like this to do that it doesn't?
About Arcaneum Focus on Product Hunt
“A reading companion for curious minds”
Arcaneum Focus was submitted on Product Hunt and earned 0 upvotes and 1 comments, placing #421 on the daily leaderboard. A browser extension for focused reading and research across web pages and PDFs. Highlight passages, add floating notes, connect ideas, generate citations, and use a Pomodoro timer — all in one reading workspace. Your data stays local, with no account required.
On the analytics side, Arcaneum Focus competes within Chrome Extensions, Productivity and Education — topics that collectively have 795.8k followers on Product Hunt. The dashboard above tracks how Arcaneum Focus performed against the three products that launched closest to it on the same day.
Who hunted Arcaneum Focus?
Arcaneum Focus was hunted by The Arcaneum. A “hunter” on Product Hunt is the community member who submits a product to the platform — uploading the images, the link, and tagging the makers behind it. Hunters typically write the first comment explaining why a product is worth attention, and their followers are notified the moment they post. Around 79% of featured launches on Product Hunt are self-hunted by their makers, but a well-known hunter still acts as a signal of quality to the rest of the community. See the full all-time top hunters leaderboard to discover who is shaping the Product Hunt ecosystem.
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