QuoteMe

Inspiration

As someone who loves reading, it is very frustrating to not have all my funny comments and highlights of books that I read on my phone/Ipad in one place. Reading apps also makes it difficult to export them. QuoteMe is my attempt to solve this by putting all my quotes in one place (importing and parsing files)

What it does

• The goal is that should allow upload of plain text files or CSVs (depending on what book app they are uploading from) so that I can host all my highlights and annotations from books in the same place
• There is a random quote generator that displays a random quote from my collection every time I click a button (useful for nostalgic reasons)
• Single quote upload
• View all quotes that have been previously put into the system

Challenges we ran into

Getting exported apps and extracting information from them

• All reading apps make it very difficult to export your highlight and so it takes multiselecting using Shift key to get all quotes (from apple books)
• Kindle is very tricky to export from

Accomplishments that we're proud of

• Getting single upload working -Have the basic UI of the app
• Database is able to store all quotes and is configures properly
• Random quote generation works properly (completed)

What's next for QuoteMe

• Finish up the quote parsing from files for the different epub reading apps
• Pagination, sorting and searching on the My Notes table (search for an author, book or quote)
• Add Google Oauth if I decide to make public

Built With

• mui
• nextjs