Arcaneum Focus

A scholar-focused reading tool by The Arcaneum for distraction-free article reading

Turn web articles, PDFs, and EPUB books into a focused reading space. Customise your themes and fonts, clear away visual distractions, and make room for the ideas that matter. Read actively. Connect ideas. Build understanding. Highlight and annotate passages, organise highlights with tags, and add sticky notes directly to pages. Connect related notes and passages with visual, corkboard-style strings to see how your ideas fit together. Double-click any word to look it up in the built-in dictionary without interrupting your reading. Generate citations, export your annotated work, and structure study sessions with the built-in Pomodoro timer. With additional tools for reading, note-taking, and research, Arcaneum Focus brings more of your reading workflow into one place. Designed for students, researchers, educators, and curious minds, Arcaneum Focus helps you go beyond reading to engage with ideas, discover connections, and develop your own understanding. Private by design. Simple to start. No account required. Your notes and highlights stay on your device. • Why does Arcaneum Focus ask for access to all sites? Reader mode needs to work on whichever page you choose to read. The extension does not collect or transmit content from those pages. • Free for private, non-commercial use, including study, teaching, and research. Using Focus for work or across an organisation? Commercial and institutional licences are available at licensing@thearcaneum.org.