Canvas Companion

The problem

Canvas buries the one thing students check most, what's due and when, behind clicks and tabs. I was tired of missing the forest for the login screens, so I built the view I wanted: every deadline, one glance, right in the menu bar.

What it does

• Syncs the Canvas REST and GraphQL APIs to surface assignments, submission status, and deadlines the moment the Mac wakes from sleep
• Schedules per-deadline notifications with configurable lead times and deduplication, so reminders fire when they're useful and never twice
• Buckets everything by urgency in a dashboard, with a fuse.js command palette for jumping to any course or assignment
• Dark and light mode

How it's built

The Electron build is hardened with context isolation, sandboxing, and a strict CSP. Your Canvas access token never touches a config file; it lives in the macOS Keychain. Core logic is covered by Vitest unit tests.

Beyond the code

I wrote the full PRD and TRD, made every design and UX call, and then took it past my own desk: I pitched UW IT Learning Technologies on institutional licensing for the entire 35,000+ student campus.

The repository is private. If you'd like a walkthrough, email me.

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