Let me get my pdf highlights into readwise and let me orgazize my notes as a zettelkasten in obsidian and i’ll get in lline to pay you.
Show HN: Desklamp – convenient and collaborative notemaking on PDFs
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#32Let me get my pdf highlights into readwise and let me orgazize my notes as a zettelkasten in obsidian and i’ll get in lline to pay you.
I used to be a lot like this. Without trying to demean you, I would suggest stepping down from your awesome bubble and talk to the common people on the ground. The 99.99% of the people are not like us. Once you learn to listen to them, a whole new world opens up. About the payment/price; you are lowering the cost of your time way below what you should priced yourself at. Instead of me doing, maintaining, if I can buy…
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#33Earlier quoted context omitted.
Noted! Do you think the app would work well as is on the iPad if we added free drawing with the pencil in the notebook? We’ve designed the entire interface with a laptop in mind. Very curious how iPad users feel about everything.
I don't have an iPad but I do a lot of free-drawing PDF annotation on Android with Squid. For maths it's way easier than typing Latex. Personally I wouldn't consider this kind of app unless it had free drawing as a primary tool. Even if you're focused on laptops, many laptops have pen input, especially those used by students. Many of my students use OneNote to annotate lecture slides with a pen; even though OneNote i…
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#34I hope it would support fully-standalone mode for enterprise environment. Lots of folks and I at my ML team found it hard to use these kinds of tooling without compromising the intranet. We have to have a permit to bring our laptop inside, otherwise stick to a proxy server.
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#35I'd like to be able to take notes for a PDF where the note part can handle the PDF being updated and would link the notes to a numbered section (or a title, optionally) in the PDF. Any chance this does that, or any other suggestions?
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#36The "store" site [1] lists JEE, NEET and CUET as the "competitive exams" category. Can anyone explain what these are? I haven't heard about these before. [1] https://store.desklamp.io/
These are standard test programs in India to get into various institutes. JEE[1] is an engineering entrance assessment conducted for admission to various engineering colleges in India. For students who want to study the general stream of physics, Chemistry, and Biology would go through the NEET[2]. This is for the Medical Colleges in India. For everything else -- colleges, undergraduate, graduate, and other courses a…
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#37This looks extremely cool. I'm doing a masters right now and would definitely use it! My one question though would be how are the notes stored? Is it possible to download them as latex or a markdown file or something? If I have to keep up a membership to return to them that would be unfortunate. Cool project though, there's definitely a need for something more fluidly interactive in the university notetaking space. B…
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#38Earlier quoted context omitted.
Thanks a ton for that feedback! I absolutely did not realise how that sounded. We definitely don’t aim to blindside early adopters with a sudden pay-us-or-you-lose-data deadline. The plan is that anything you do right now you’ll ALWAYS have access to, and at some point (not before December 2022) we begin charging a subscription to begin saving data to new documents. New users post that deadline will have a threshold…
When in doubt, do something like this -- $99.99 a year (or something higher than you are thinking right now) BUT free during the beta. So, people will either stay because they can afford that or is worth it or will leave. So, you end up with users who you will likely care enough to make good features for them.
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#39The thesis was to make annotated textbooks, so if 100 people read a book then the 101th person could benefit from the knowledge of the previous 100 people.
I hope you guys consider the multiplayer aspect of note-taking!
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#40This is super nice! I tried to build something similar (PDF reader x Stack Overflow; as you read you can see highlights that link to Stack Overflow style posts): https://chimu.sh (site is broken right now), but it didn't work out. The thesis was to make annotated textbooks, so if 100 people read a book then the 101th person could benefit from the knowledge of the previous 100 people. I hope you guys consider the mult…