This is incredibly exciting.
This is incredibly exciting. I've been pondering/experimenting on a hobby project that makes reading papers and textbooks easier and more effective. Unfortunately the OCR and figure extraction technology just wasn't there yet. This is a game changer. Specifically, this allows you to associate figure references with the actual figure, which would allow me to build a UI that solves the annoying problem of looking for a referenced figure on another page, which breaks up the flow of reading. It also allows a clean conversion to HTML, so you can add cool functionality like clicking on unfamiliar words for definitions, or inserting LLM generated checkpoint questions to verify understanding. I would like to see if I can automatically integrate Andy Matuschak's Orbit[0] SRS into any PDF. Lots of potential here. [0] https://docs.withorbit.com/
Posted by owenpalmer on Mar 6, 2025, 6:48 PM
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To be fair, Inform7 can't succeed, generally, because there is no market for the kind of games that you create with Inform7.
New> The notion that somehow LR reliability is misunderstood by Consumer Reports, JD Power, Car & Driver, Automobile etc.
Custom trigger IDs are not displayed in the new 2026.10 trigger selector
I hate that too, but I think it’s more the ux than the concept of a default.
> The biggest problem with UX developers is they know better than you AND force you into their paradigm.
"Focus follows mouse" is what I use to keep the file manager from popping up when click-dragging files.
The biggest problem with this is if the target URL doesn't load but also doesn't quickly error out, like e.g.
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This is incredibly exciting.
This is incredibly exciting. I've been pondering/experimenting on a hobby project that makes reading papers and textbooks easier and more effective. Unfortunately the OCR and figure extraction technology just wasn't there yet. This is a game changer. Specifically, this allows you to associate figure references with the actual figure, which would allow me to build a UI that solves the annoying problem of looking for a referenced figure on another page, which breaks up the flow of reading. It also allows a clean conversion to HTML, so you can add cool functionality like clicking on unfamiliar words for definitions, or inserting LLM generated checkpoint questions to verify understanding. I would like to see if I can automatically integrate Andy Matuschak's Orbit[0] SRS into any PDF. Lots of potential here. [0] https://docs.withorbit.com/
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