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by felipefar 2y ago
I hope Microsoft would settle for one UI library instead of pushing a new one every five years. WinUI 3 is their most recent invention. Application developers can't keep up with the changing standards.
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by felipefar 2y ago
I would mention as an alternative QML, although I wouldn't claim it is the "best method". It's marketed as being mobile-capable, but I've heard problems about scrolling inertia and vsync delays. I'm curious to
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by felipefar 2y ago
That was unfortunate. Thanks for the heads-up, it's fixed now!
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by felipefar 2y ago
This is an useful tool. I wish there was something similar for desktop applications. The nice thing about implementing this for the web is that the API you have to record data from (DOM events) is the same no matter what UI toolkit you use
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by felipefar 2y ago
1) The post-roam research note-taking apps (Obsidian, logseq) have shown the usefulness of creating notes with links, back-links and databases. 2) Document editor apps (Notion, Craft) have popularized the concept of documents as a set of te
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by felipefar 2y ago
I agree with you. We're expanding our support for import/export as time goes by, there will be no lock-in. We already have markdown support and plan on adding markdown import/.bib export and import/pdf export. Plenty of
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by felipefar 2y ago
Thanks! Yes, we plan on adding a Linux version. The framework we use is cross-platform, but there is a thin layer that has to be ported.
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by felipefar 2y ago
I'm eager to add synchronization and mobile support for Cahier. It could take some time because the amount of work is not trivial, but I know I'm able to deliver. What other features are essential for you? Do you work on academia
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by felipefar 2y ago
This is exactly why I created Cahier. I want to make it excel at the capture and processing steps of the research workflow. We're close to having the foundational features of the software in place and will release the beta soon. But we
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by felipefar 2y ago
I think that the main issue is that the columns in the PDF aren't identified as columns of sequential text, they are just rectangles. So there is no reliable way to reposition the text so that it doesn't use two columns. I've
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by felipefar 2y ago
I've been working on having my notes better integrated with the content I read. I try to gather references to where an idea is developed/contradicted in the literature, or just collect good ideas. Cahier ( https://getcah
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by felipefar 2y ago
tesseract is fine for basic use cases, but it fails when the image is tilted (and thus the text isn't laid out horizontally), which can happen several times with scanned books. Compared to how well the Google OCR engine works, tesserac
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by felipefar 2y ago
Can't you preprocess them with a custom parser and then hand over a conformant HTML to the browser?
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by felipefar 2y ago
You're right. In that case you could implement the unzipping and metadata parsing in WASM and just hand the HTML to the browser to be rendered. It's still useful since browsers don't come with built-in EPUB support.
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by felipefar 2y ago
Besides opening PDFs (and despite the project's name), MuPDF can also read EPUBs, but currently this WASM viewer can't open them. They must have had to reduce functionality of the library to port faster to WASM. But I wonder if th
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by felipefar 2y ago
Human beings are unique in the world because they are the only species that can understand it. If you remove them from the world, there's nothing left that can throw light in the world's misteries.
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by felipefar 2y ago
> The only thing you need is to stop this idea that living a richer life means earning/spending a lot of money / reaources. There's so much personal development you can do without participating in the materialistic rat rac
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by felipefar 2y ago
Most articles about public speaking, including this one, have interesting advice, but they miss the point on the most important factor in a presentation: the content. If you do everything that the author recommends, but you don't have
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by felipefar 3y ago
I liked the dual header 2D graphics rasterizer that this uses: https://github.com/xboot/libcg . I'm always amazed by how we can build powerful software with minimal dependencies like that. Would it be that hard to
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by felipefar 3y ago
I really like licensing models of one-time payments with a pre-defined duration of updates. But I wonder how they enforce it while not making internet access a requirement for the app.
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Commonplace Books: Networked Knowledge and Combinatorial Creativity (2014)(fs.blog)
1 points by felipefar 3y ago|0 comments
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by felipefar 3y ago
Sorry for the ignorance, but if the forum posts require login to access then you won't be able to use SingleFile, right? Also, how is the quality of the output generated compared to a .pdf? I'm used to print PDFs from chrome for a
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by felipefar 3y ago
Thank you for your interest! I've received that request more than I thought I would. It's high on the priority list now, and will arrive soon.
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by felipefar 3y ago
Thanks! I'm considering that. We might first implement P2P or external services (dropbox, iCloud) sync, but we'll see. The data is all local, so there's no need for encryption yet. But when we implement sync it'll be end
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by felipefar 3y ago
What do you like about organization in Mendeley?
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by felipefar 3y ago
I was also unhappy with how reference managers handle annotations. So I rolled my own app ( https://getcahier.com ), with highlight management integrated in the application. This enables me to extract highlights according to topic
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by felipefar 3y ago
I'm considering on supporting it. What kind of package and for what distro would you need? But some users use it through Wine for the moment.
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by felipefar 3y ago
I'm glad you liked it! I thought from the start to ask for a price that I myself would pay. The files are stored locally, so there's no cloud involved at the moment. The attachments are stored as files in a directory, while annota
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Show HN: Cahier – A knowledge base with native support for research(getcahier.com)
2 points by felipefar 3y ago|4 comments
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by felipefar 3y ago
It's curious that in Qt Widgets QWidgets (that are generally "alien windows") aren't cheap either. If you implement a list view from scratch, you shouldn't create the list items as QWidgets otherwise your applicatio

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