Using Notion to Turn Reading Sessions Into a Searchable Knowledge System

This is a submission for the Notion MCP Challenge

What I Built

I built Reader’s Companion, a Chrome extension that turns online reading into something actually useful.

The idea came from a super common problem: you’re reading something valuable — a research paper, a long-form blog, documentation, even an ebook in the browser — and the moment you want to save something important, your focus breaks. You start switching tabs, copying text into notes, saving screenshots to nowhere, or telling yourself you’ll come back to it later.

And yeah… later never comes.

Reader’s Companion fixes that by making capture part of the reading flow itself.

So instead of treating reading and note-taking as two separate tasks, this makes them feel like one smooth workflow.

You can check out the code here:

[https://github.com/siddqamar/readers-companion.git]

How I Used Notion MCP

Notion is the core destination for the whole experience.

I used Notion MCP as the bridge that turns the extension from a simple capture tool into something that fits into a real workflow.

That means Notion becomes more than a storage layer. It becomes the place where reading turns into usable knowledge.

Closing Thought

A lot of tools help you collect information.

I wanted to build one that helps you stay in flow while doing it.

That is what Reader’s Companion is really about.