Arcaneum Focus
A reading companion for curious minds
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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.
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PH · launched Oct 20, 2026 · 1 upvote (top 67%)
- Education
- Workflow automation
- Prosumer
- Not AI
- Commercial product
- Chrome Extensions
- Productivity
- Education
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Yes A browser extension with highlighting, notes, a Pomodoro timer, and citation generation uses standard extension APIs and local storage. PDF rendering can use existing libraries such as pdf.js.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 122 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #61 of 123 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 283 days after the earliest competitor.
- Focus Reader · ph · 2026-10-13 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.49
- Focus Timer · ph · 2026-09-12 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.47
- Focus Flow · ph · 2026-10-23 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.46
- Focus Flow · ph · 2026-10-04 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.45
- ReadFocus+ · ph · 2026-10-07 · 3 upvotes · similarity 0.44
- A new way to read books, magnifying in and out · hn · 2026-08-19 · 7 upvotes · similarity 0.43
- Do Not Distracted — Focus OS · ph · 2026-09-30 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.42
- Aletheia · ph · 2026-10-01 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.42
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