I Read Too Much and Forgot Everything So I Built a Tool That Turns My Annotations Into Something I'll Actually Reread.

This is a submission for Weekend Challenge: Passion Edition

What I Built

When school let out for summer, I promised myself I'd finally read everything on my list. And I did — I read constantly, highlighting every sentence that hit me along the way. I'm a chronic highlighter.

The problem showed up a few weeks in: I had dozens of highlighted documents and no way to use any of it. Highlights scattered across files, buried on pages I'd never revisit. I'd finish a book with fifty things I'd marked as important and a month later couldn't tell you five of them. All that reading, and I was still forgetting everything.

So I built the tool I actually needed: an app that takes a highlighted PDF or DOCX and pulls every highlight, underline, strikeout, and comment into one clean, structured list — no more re-opening a 300-page file to copy-paste forty highlights by hand.