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영어 숙어(구동사·표현)는 시험에도 회화에도 자주 나오는데, 막상 외우려면 잘 안 붙죠. 그래서 짧게, 자주, 게임처럼 익히는 크롬 사이드패널 확장 Phrase Hero 를 만들었습니다. 핵심 아이디어: 문제는 영어로, 뜻은 내 언어로 영어를 배우는 사람 대부분은 원어민이 아닙니다. 한국인은 한국어로, 일본인은 일본어로, 중국인은 중국어로 뜻을 보는 게 자연스럽죠. Phrase Hero는 학습 대상인 영어(예문·선택지)는 그대로 두고, 뜻만 사용자의 모국어 로 보여줍니다. 설정에서 언어를 고르면 끝이에요. 🇰🇷 한국어 · 🇯🇵 日本語 · 🇨🇳 中文 · 🇺🇸 English 이렇게 풉니다 월드(비즈니스·커뮤니케이션·일상생활 등)를 고르고, 두 가지 레벨로 퀴즈를 풉니다. Level 1 — 문장을 읽고 4개 중 알맞은 동사를 클릭 Level 2 — 동사 + 전치사를 순서대로 눌러 표현을 완성 정답을 맞히면 예문 전체 번역이 잠깐 나타나 방금 배운 표현을 각인시켜 줍니다. 콤보·시간 보너스, 별점, 등급으로 계속 풀게 되고요. 눈이 편한 디자인 밝고 차분한 뉴트럴 톤에 인디고 포인트. 취향에 따라 인디고 / 바다 / 노을 테마를 고를 수 있고, 선택한 언어·테마·진행 상황은 브라우저에 로컬 저장 됩니다. (로그인·추적·외부 서버 없음) 설치 & 사용 Chrome 웹스토어 등록을 준비 중입니다. 지금은 소스로 바로 써볼 수 있어요: GitHub에서 프로젝트를 내려받습니다. 주소창에 chrome://extensions/ 입력 → 우측 상단 개발자 모드 켜기 압축해제된 확장 프로그램을 로드 클릭 → 프로젝트 폴더 선택 툴바의 Phrase H...

📅 Published July 2026  ·  ⏱ 4 min read  ·  ✍️ SWYoon Labs Simple Side Note v1.1.0 is now live on the Chrome Web Store. This update rethinks how saving works, adds smarter memo organization, and brings Markdown export — without changing what makes the extension simple to use. Here is everything that is new. 💾 Explicit Save Button Previous versions saved automatically as you typed — which was convenient, but left a persistent question: "Was that actually saved?" Starting in v1.1.0, you are in control. A Save button now appears at the bottom of the editor, and it tells you exactly what is happening. When there are unsaved changes, the button shows a · indicator so you always know the current state. After saving, the button briefly confirms with ✓ Saved . If you preferred auto-save, it is still available. Go to the new Settings tab and turn on Draft Auto-Preserve to restore that behavior. ...

📅 Published June 2026  ·  ⏱ 5 min read  ·  ✍️ SWYoon Labs By the end of this post, you will have five searchable grammar memos living in your Chrome sidebar — organized by topic, ready in one click, and fast enough to check mid-sentence while you are writing an email or a message. The tool is Simple Side Note , a free Chrome extension. The setup takes under ten minutes. After that, adding a new grammar rule takes about thirty seconds — right-click, type two lines, save. What You Will Have When You Are Done Five memos in your sidebar, each named after a grammar topic you actually struggle with. Every entry inside them follows the same three-line format — rule, example, your confusion. And a search bar at the top that finds any entry in under ten seconds by keyword. The next time you wonder whether to write "I have been waiting" or "I was waiting" — instead of opening a new tab and re-searching, you type "p...

📅 Published June 2026  ·  ⏱ 5 min read  ·  ✍️ SWYoon Labs You learn a great phrase. You feel proud. Three days later, you cannot remember it, where you saw it, or what it meant. This happens to almost every English learner because most "study" is really just passive exposure — reading something interesting once and trusting your memory to hold onto it. It will not. Memory needs a system, not good intentions. Below is a 5-minute daily routine that solves this, using Simple Side Note , a free Chrome sidebar notepad, together with Google AI Mode. No new app to learn. No subscription. Just five concrete clicks, every day. What You'll Need Simple Side Note installed in Chrome (free, no account required) Access to Google AI Mode (google.com → "AI Mode" tab) 5 minutes, once a day The Routine, Click by Click 1 Minute 1 — Open one memo, name it "Daily Phrases...

📅 Published June 2026  ·  ⏱ 6 min read  ·  ✍️ SWYoon Labs There is a particular kind of frustration that only language learners know. You are in the middle of a Google AI Mode session. The AI just gave you the perfect explanation of a phrase you have been hearing everywhere — natural, contextual, exactly what you needed. You think, "I have to save this." So you open a new tab. You navigate to your notes app. By the time you get back to the AI response, the moment is gone. Your focus has scattered. The sentence that felt so clear a moment ago now feels like something you half-remember from a dream. This is the tab-switching problem — and it is quietly one of the biggest obstacles in modern language learning. In this post, I will show you a simple workflow that eliminates the problem entirely, using a free Chrome extension called Simple Side Note . Why Tab-Switching Kills Your Study Flow Focus is ...

Release Notes · Chrome Extension Simple Side Note v1.0.4 Is Here Find any note in seconds — real-time search with instant keyword highlighting, right in your sidebar. v1.0.3 → v1.0.4  ·  New Feature Update If you've ever stared at a growing list of notes and thought "I know I wrote this down somewhere..." — this update is for you. Simple Side Note v1.0.4 introduces a built-in search feature that lets you find any saved memo instantly, without scrolling through every note you've ever taken. Whether you're collecting vocabulary during an English study session, bookmarking useful phrases from an article, or keeping track of ideas across multiple tabs — the new search function keeps everything within reach. 🔍 What's New in v1.0.4 🔍 Memo Search — Find Any Note Instantly The Saved tab now has a live search bar at the top. Type any keyword and your memo list filter...

Release Notes · v1.0.3 Simple Side Note Gets a Smarter Export — Now in HTML Cross-platform, image-ready, and open in any browser. Here's what changed and why it matters. There's a small frustration that piles up quietly. You take careful notes while studying — paste in a sentence, annotate a word, even drop in an image of a grammar table you want to remember. Then you click Download , open the file on your Mac, and… nothing. A warning, a missing application, a broken rendering. Your notes look fine in the extension; they look broken on your disk. That's the problem Simple Side Note v1.0.3 fixes. It's not a dramatic overhaul. It's a focused repair of something that should have worked from the start: getting your memos off the extension and onto your device in a form every operating system can actually open. From .doc to .html — Why It Matters The previous export format was .doc — Microsoft Word's legacy format. On ...