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Zenreader - A new tool of reading and making notes on research for the Mac
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Posted by Darren McDonald
Dec 3, 2020 at 02:03 PM
I just stumbled on Zenreader. Has anyone used this application? What are your thoughts?
Posted by David Garner
Dec 4, 2020 at 08:50 AM
Thanks for sharing, looks interesting to me.
This is also available for Windows.
There’s a free tier.
I’ve signed up and downloaded it.
Hoping to at least get some new ideas by poking around on it.
Posted by tightbeam
Dec 4, 2020 at 08:24 PM
This looks like very useful, well-coded software.
I particularly value the ability to drag notes, snippets, and other content from the “repository” on the right into the outline on the left.
Does anyone know of other Windows software with this “drag content into outline” feature?
Posted by satis
Dec 5, 2020 at 03:30 PM
It only imports web pages and PDFs. I could see this being useful for many grad students, but I work primarily with ePubs, sometimes even converting PDFs to ePub, because of the better viewing experience with font and text size choice. So this wouldn’t really replace my current workflow.
The outliner component does looks interesting.
The Video Tutorials section is dead, which is disappointing, as I’d wanted to see it a bit more in-depth.
It’s a wrapper app around a service, presumably an Electron app, so I’d like to see how fast or slow it is. I can’t use some Electron apps, mostly because of slowness, sometimes because of strange cross-platform UI conventions employed.
Posted by Carlo M
Dec 9, 2020 at 02:55 PM
Hi all,
I am one of the developers behind Zenreader, thank you very much for the comments. We are working hard to improve on the product and feedback is very appreciated.
We initially started this for grads/postgrads but are looking at bringing this technology to professionals.
We’ll take some time over this holiday break to work on our video section!
As a note, we have built it using Qt and C++ rather than Electron for performance reasons. It isn’t native, but allows our team to distribute on various platforms faster.