Overview
Card cutting is one of the most time-consuming parts of competitive debate prep. The standard workflow — copy text, open a doc, manually type the citation, format the card — takes minutes per card. Incisive cuts that to seconds.
Press Alt+C on any article. The extension parses the author, title, publication, date, and URL automatically, loads your selected text into the card body, and gives you a formatting toolbar. Hit Cut Card and it's in your clipboard — rich HTML with bold, underline, and highlight intact, ready to paste directly into Verbatim or Google Docs.
What I Built
- Manifest V3 extension for Chrome (published to Chrome Web Store) and Firefox
- Citation parser that chains Open Graph tags, JSON-LD structured data, and DOM heuristics — covers most major news sites and journals without any configuration
- Inline card editor with formatting tools: bold+underline, underline, shrink, and highlight with color swatches
- Dual-format clipboard output: rich HTML preserves formatting when pasted into Word, Google Docs, or Verbatim; plain text fallback for everything else
- Persistent card state and settings (font, bold mode, theme, highlight color) via
chrome.storage.local - MutationObserver to prevent users from accidentally deleting structural card elements
- Context menu integration: right-click selected text to cut directly
Tech Stack
JavaScript
Chrome MV3
Firefox MV3
Web Extensions API
Clipboard API
JSON-LD