Butu 🧸: a friendly browser companion that gets lonely when you leave your work

Описание и применение

Butu — это расширение для Chrome и Firefox, которое использует локальную модель встраивания, чтобы определить, отвлекает ли текущая веб‑страница от заданной задачи, и предоставляет дружелюбного медвежонка, который помогает пользователю вернуться к работе.

Задача

Students and workers often get distracted by unrelated web pages while working on assignments, leading to lost focus and time.

Результат

Butu provides a lightweight, offline‑capable focus companion that detects distraction via a local embedding model and uses hand‑drawn visuals and voice to gently nudge users back to their task, improving focus without requiring external APIs.

Рабочий процесс

• 1. User opens the extension and enters the task description and desired focus duration.
• 2. The extension loads a 17.5 MB embedding model (Xenova/paraphrase-MiniLM-L3-v2) via Transformers.js.
• 3. The model compares the task with the current page’s title, description, and visible text to determine relevance.
• 4. If the page is deemed irrelevant, the teddy bear appears and gradually draws crayon doodles, plays a music box, and speaks reminders.
• 5. The longer the user stays away, the more the bear’s drawings become unsettling and the voice becomes more urgent.
• 6. When the user returns to the task page, the bear disappears, the music stops, and a chime confirms focus is restored.
• 7. The session is logged locally in a handwritten scrapbook showing task, duration, and places visited.

Доказательства

A small embedding model runs inside the browser to work out whether the page you're reading belongs to that task.

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It compares your task with the page title, description and a short excerpt of visible text.

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The quantized weights are about 17.5 MB. They’re downloaded once from Hugging Face and cached.

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Run ./build.sh, then load dist/chrome/ through Chrome’s Load unpacked, or dist/firefox/manifest.json through Firefox’s Load Temporary Add-on.

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