[HN Gopher] Sioyek is a PDF viewer with a focus on textbooks and...
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Sioyek is a PDF viewer with a focus on textbooks and research
papers
Author : simonpure
Score : 53 points
Date : 2024-05-09 21:28 UTC (1 hours ago)
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| pazimzadeh wrote:
| Is there something like this for iPad? Reading research articles
| is a painful process having to flip back and forth between text,
| figures and references all the time
| 0x38B wrote:
| https://www.liquidtext.net/ is unique in its feature set and
| use of gestures and stylus.
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| It's definitely worth trying.
| sva_ wrote:
| Did you try the Google Scholar PDF reader? It makes citations
| clickable (sometimes)
| k310 wrote:
| I have used MarginNote and Notability in the past. Take a quick
| look to see if they do what you want with PDF's.
| behnamoh wrote:
| I use this all the time. It's a nice app. Although some of the
| features such as jumping to citations are available in Google
| Scholar extension for Chrome. I just love the idea of vimifying
| my apps. Before Sioyek, I used Karabiner to set j/k/etc. in macOS
| Preview so I could navigate using vim keys, but that was a
| tedious process and didn't have many features that Sioyek offers.
| Also, I use a solarized background color for PDFs to avoid eye
| strain, and the app supports night mode even for the graphs in
| PDFs!
|
| Some gripes with this app:
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| - There's an extension that lets you view PDFs in two columns
| (panels) side by side. But that literally changes the actual PDF
| files!
|
| - Plugins are generally challenging to install. I found a
| workaround and reported it, but IDK if the author took that
| feedback to improve the app.
|
| - To my knowledge, the app stores its configs in the Applications
| directory of the app. It'd be nicer to have them in ~/.config.
|
| - The feature to quickly open files in a directory doesn't work
| for cloud drives (including iCloud).
| lugu wrote:
| +1 for the complexity to install extensions.
|
| I really can't remember the name sioyek so I made it an alias
| to xpdf.
| ufo wrote:
| Does the table of contents work if the pdf doesn't come with a
| table of contents? (That's something I always wished my pdf
| reader could do)
| burgerrito wrote:
| Such a good PDF viewer.
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| My favorite feature from this program that doesn't exist in any
| other PDF reader (AFAIK) is visual mark mode, where it highlight
| each line you read. Very good to reduce eye strain
| generationP wrote:
| Is it good at digesting huge lists of PDFs (say, 100 000)?
| philips wrote:
| I recently started using an eink Supernote device in A5 size and
| it is really change the way I interact with PDFs. The best part
| is the software is native PDF highlighting and commenting and
| leave comments using handwriting recognition.
|
| Unrelated to PDF I built a Supernote Obsidian plugin too.
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| https://github.com/philips/supernote-obsidian-plugin
| wonger_ wrote:
| What else about the Supernote changed the way you interact with
| PDFs, besides highlighting and handwritten comments? Does the
| form factor make a big difference?
|
| Asking out of curiosity since I've been eyeing eink tablets for
| a while.
| drwu wrote:
| Sioyek has nice features, however, it was quite buggy. Fixing
| bugs and writing tests may take a lot of efforts.
| throwaway425933 wrote:
| Tangentially related. does anyone know a good pdf reader with LLM
| based search integrated? Suppose I want search for "cities in
| USA", in the document, it should show all occurences new york,
| los angeles and chicago, for example.
| Physkal wrote:
| This is desktop only, correct? Personally I've been using Librera
| for my textbooks, would love to try some other recommendations.
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