Benksen

Benksen is a Chrome extension with the goal of making remote education more productive. It allows users to streamline the Pomodoro studying method and save sessions by locally storing opened tabs.

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Inspiration

I always use the Pomodoro studying method, but setting it manually using the Google timer is sometimes cumbersome. Additionally, I often have a Chrome window open with 10+ tabs but I don't want to reopen them later. And this is hard if you want to shut your computer off but have things open the exact same way the next day.

What it does

Benksen attempts to solve those two problems. It has a built-in timer for using the easily setting up the Pomodoro studying method and allows the user to save opened tabs in a folder. The user can then later restore the session by reopening those exact same tabs.

How we built it

I built it using HTML, Javascript and CSS.

Challenges we ran into

Too many. So many that I did not even get to finish implementing everything! For example, using asynchronous functions for the Chrome API got confusing really fast. And creating a timer that updates dynamically through the back-end and runs on pure Javascript was also painstakingly hard.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

I had been learning Javascript about a week ago and this was my first project using it. Even though it didn't meet my expectations, I am proud that I have a living and breathing program. It is also my first full-stack web app,

What we learned

I learned that teamwork is very important in hackathons.

What's next for Benksen

Fully implementing Pomodoro studying method, saving user sessions, saving user notes screenshots locally and integrating a text-to-speech feature to use on websites.

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