Chrome Extensions for Computer Science Graduate Students

A list of Chrome Extensions that might be useful to computer science graduate students.

Reading and Writing

Google Scholar PDF Reader

Supercharge your paper reading: follow references, skim outline, jump to figures, cite and save.

Google Scholar Author Highlighter

Highlights first-author, second-author, co-first-author and last-author papers on Google Scholar profile pages

This extension automatically scans your Google Scholar profile and highlights papers by your authorship role. It detects and color-codes when you are: First author, Second author, Co-first author (symbols such as †, ‡, §, *, #), Last author

GScholarLENS

Advanced Insights into Google Scholar Profiles.

GScholarLENS is a browser extension designed for academics, researchers, and enthusiasts who want deeper insights into publication data and contribution of an author from Google Scholar.

Openreview Quicklook

Quicklook the summary of openreview submission

It is unfriendly to get the submission information quickly, such as the ratings and the final accept/reject decision. This tool display such summary in a box, and you will never need to scroll all the page first before getting such information.

Redirectify

Redirects requests for PDFs of papers at some popular sites to their corresponding HTML index pages. (For example, this pdf link redirects to this webpage)

Grammarly for Chrome

Use Grammarly on Chrome.

open-in-overleaf

Access the LaTeX source code of arXiv papers on Overleaf.

General

Dark Reader

Inverts brightness of web pages and aims to reduce eyestrain while browsing the web.

Codes

Octotree

Create easy-to-navigate code tree in Github, for file browsing and downloads.

For Koreans

KoreaDropdown

KoreaDropdown은 웹사이트의 드롭다운 메뉴에서 ‘Korea’를 자동으로 선택하는 크롬 확장 프로그램입니다.

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Scholar Highlights

Highlights first (and co-first) author publications on Google Scholar. Note: Uses the Scholar author list, with asterisk (*) denoting co-authorship.

Refined GitHub

Simplifies the GitHub interface and adds useful features

Code Finder for Research Papers - CatalyzeX

Finds and shows links to code implementations for research papers directly on Google, Arxiv, Scholar, Twitter, Github, and more.

Overleaf textarea

This plugin displays your text in a textarea so you can use spellcheck plugins like Grammarly. (It may not be that effective if your paper contains a bunch of equations.)

Copy BibTex in 1 click on GScholar

Copy BibTex from GScholar result page with 1 click!

Rooster for Chrome™

Stay productive by giving you insights on browsing habits and by notifying.

Vertical Tabs

Display tabs vertically in a sidebar on web pages. Support drag-and-drop, search, filter on tabs. (Sometimes this plugin creates a weird layout.)

Find Korea from Dropdowns

Find Korea when you go to academic conferences.

Auto-LaTeX Equations

Instantly convert every math equation in Google Docs documents into latex images.