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IntelliHistory

Smart history that does all your work.

The problem IntelliHistory solves

A hack to the actual realization of smart/intelligent browsing history. The numerous links/tabs provided in by the browser barely provide any insight to the browsing session and are hard to retrace. Aims to implements a visual, dynamic, interactive force-directed graph which expands and traces the path the user took to reach a particular point while browsing.

Apart from this, with the inclusion of an interactive web extension, the user is able to select and grab topics(displayed as summaries of paragraphs) according to preference/relevance. These preferences are stored in the same stack/storage for the entire session and the user has an option of downloading a ppt/pdf by the end of it containing the summary of sort of the session.

At the end the user has a custom-made(according to selections) or automated summary of the entire browsing session centered around a point topic. All the user has to do is start recording the session with a single click button!

Features
A chrome-extension for interactive selection of headings, sub-headings for integration with the summary
Choice to download a ppt/pdf of the topic
Recording the session with a single switch
Topic modeling: inputs a word and displays the visual context of topics associated with the search
Option of generating automated summary in case of shortage of time

Challenges we ran into

It was our first time building a chrome extension, and it wasn't as easy as it seemed :(
We took a lot of time to figure out the working of chrome extensions.
Tracking the browser session and generating the summary for each of the URLs was an issue throughout.
Underestimated the size of the problem and struggled a little in the later half with time management.

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