Meemo

web extension

Meemo

Meemo is a set of features that were (are) very useful to me.

You can hover over items to find out the gender of a noun (if you didn’t know, German noun cases are pretty hard), like so:

scanning genders of nouns from an article in German

Being able to save things to Anki without friction is quite nice:

saving a snippet of text directly to Anki

I decided to experiment with different visual designs, which not a good idea if you want to create a coherent program, namely glassmorphism for GUI displayed on the page, and brutalism/cartoon-ish for the options menu.

Not that I think it will ever matter in this case, but I was also inspired by how, in contrast to “serious” software, videogames can have their faults turned into things loved and abused by us, especially those released in a time when updates over the network weren’t doable, allowing for some fun mechanics or speedruns.

making the UI unreasonably large