Projects

Things I built when a task kept repeating, and design work I’ve done along the way.

Software

Clinic automation

Efficient Everyday toolkit

Why: At Lake Forest Acute Care, common discharge instructions and after-visit advice were being typed out by hand, visit after visit.
What it does: Charting templates and macros drop standard instructions into the after-visit summary in a keystroke, and a shortcut scans colored EKGs straight into the EMR.
In practice: Providers and staff use it in their daily charting and have told me it makes the work noticeably faster. Staff estimate it saves several hours across a clinic day; that is an informal, staff-reported estimate, not a measured result.

Built with AutoHotkey

Lab automation

High-speed video analysis pipeline

Why: Each escape-jump trial in the Schwalbe Lab produced its own spreadsheet of digitized points, and cleaning and organizing 100+ of them by hand took more than 50 hours.
What it does: Cleans, organizes, and analyzes every trial in a single run.
In practice: Used for the lab’s hatchetfish jump analysis, so time went into the questions instead of the spreadsheets.

Built with R, AutoHotkey, MATLAB

50+ hrsmanual

~20 minautomated

My own rough timing, not a formal benchmark.

Anki add-on

HandGestures for Anki

Why: I wanted to review Anki flashcards without keeping a hand on the keyboard.
What it does: Watches my hand through the webcam. On the question side, any pinch shows the answer; on the answer side, each finger pinched to the thumb grades the card (Again, Hard, Good, or Easy), and every finger can be remapped. Video is processed on the computer and never uploaded.
In practice: Started as a personal study tool and is now a published add-on on AnkiWeb for Windows and macOS. Anyone can install it from inside Anki.

Built with Python, MediaPipe, OpenCV

To download this add-on, copy and paste the following code into Anki (Tools > Add-ons > Get Add-ons):

549679934

Get it on AnkiWeb ↗

HandGestures tracking an open hand next to an unanswered Anki card — Open hand: nothing happens

Thumb and finger pinched and the Anki answer revealed — Pinch: answer revealed

Student resource

Dot phrases for students

The same idea as the dot phrases I use in the clinic’s EMR, applied to everyday student writing: email, scheduling, dates, and Greek letters.

Type	Expands to
.em	hrideykapoor224@gmail.com
.emailprof	Professional email opener
.followup	Follow-up template
.meet	Meeting request
.tds	Today’s date (mm/dd/yyyy)
.alpha .beta .pi	α β π

Design & photography

Eukaryon Volume 21 cover featuring Afloat, a photograph of a Pacific sea nettle jellyfish — “Afloat,” the Volume 21 cover, with my second photograph from inside the issue

Second photograph by Hridey Kapoor printed inside Volume 21: a blue coral with bright green polyps — “Afloat,” the Volume 21 cover, with my second photograph from inside the issue

Eukaryon, Lake Forest College’s undergraduate research journal

Journal layout and the Volume 21 cover

I joined Eukaryon’s publication board in 2023 and later chaired it. Each volume is a team effort; my part was laying out and formatting articles in Adobe InDesign, and writing a JavaScript script that builds an InDesign template from an author’s Word file. By my own estimate, that cut setup from about five hours to under two per paper.

“Afloat,” my photograph of a Pacific sea nettle, was selected as the cover of Volume 21 and won 1st place for Best Cover Art in the journal’s 2025 artwork competition. A second photograph of mine, shown inset, was printed inside the issue.

Artwork showcase About the cover

Tools Adobe InDesign, JavaScript

Outside the journal, I also designed event posters for Synapse, the campus neuroscience club.