NightOwl Google Chrome Extension

Inspiration

Parents and roommates who walk in and look at your computer screen.

What it does

• By pressing Shift + 1, the user creates a NightOwl Tabs.
• By pressing Shift + 2, all NightOwl Tabs will be replaced with studying websites.
• By pressing Shift + 3, all NightOwl Tabs will close.

How we built it

We used JavaScript, HTML, and CSS.

Challenges we ran into

• Variables stayed local to their own windows, so we were unable to find a way for all tabs to access the same variables.
• Currently, all commands must be made from one tab.
• Learning to trigger events with key commands.
• Tabs can only be closed by JavaScript if they were opened by JavaScript.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

Learning to work with JavaScript, HTML, and CSS. Creating an extension that we may actually use in the future.

What we learned

We have never worked with HTML, JavaScript, or CSS, so every line of code was a learning experience.

What's next for NightOwl Google Chrome Extension

• the ability to decide which subject to "study"
• allow the user to recover all URLs that were dismissed while using NightOwl
• so many bugfixes

Built With

• css
• html
• javascript