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Work · April 30, 2020

Reader

Minimalist PDF viewer with powerful interactions

Reader launched on April 30, 2020 with 2 votes. The site was still online in September 2026, 6 years on.

What it does

Minimalist PDF reader with powerful Views and Full Citation Copying.

Augmented Text tools offer a new ecosystem for writing, reading and interacting with text. Author is a writing app for Mac which makes citations and concept mapping easier than ever before. Reader is a free minimalist PDF viewer with powerful interactions.

This software is the implementation side of our work on The Future of Text, to work to truly augment your ability to think, write and communicate. As Alan Kay famously said: The best way to predict the future is to invent it and that’s why we are producing software in addition to hosting in the form of ‘The Future of Text’ Symposium, for over a decade. The symposium has resulted in the a series of books, also on ‘ The Future Of Text ’. We also build small utilities like LiSA , the speaking assistant, Interatlas , a minimalist interactive atlas, and Liquid , the powerful text tool. The free and open source Origami Text is being made available soon. You can also directly download our…from augmentedtext.info

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    Hey HN, I built a PDF reader that can generate interactive visualizations right inside the document. The goal is to reduce the “intuition gap” when reading dense papers: select a concept, click Visualize, and it tries to produce a solid visual interactive app where you can rotate/zoom/step through (not just a text explanation). Upload any PDF, select text, click Visualize. Demo (no signup): https://zerodistract.com/try/pdf/67cdee74-810b-4f1b-af7d-010... Product link: https://zerodistract.com I’d love feedback, especially on what feels useful vs.…

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