I built an app to take highlights in e-books, do you have feedback?

Hello!

My name is Bryce, I'm a Software Engineer working on a indie hacking project this year. I recently built my first web app NowLedge.

NowLedge is basically an app for taking highlights in books, allowing users to take highlights very easily as they go through the book, save them and display them nicely when needed. The end goal is to build a product that helps to achieve maximum information extraction from a given document.

I started with a focus on books because that’s what I needed, in a sense NowLedge was built to solve a problem I had.

I have a lot of digital books, especially books that I want to learn from. For that purpose, I need to take notes of my understanding as I read the book, this is a common technique for using educational books efficiently.

The problem is that I am a lazy and messy person; I looked at solutions to help me easily achieve that and I could not find something that had a minimalistic interface, was really simple to use and ergonomic enough to highlight PDF documents. Since I could not find what I wanted, I decided to build it myself.

As of now, NowLedge answers to 80% of my demands: I can now read a book that I enjoy learning from, take efficient notes as I read it, access them very easily in a nice grid formatted page and download my “understanding” of the book in a matter of minutes. This works as I actually have all of the information that I want to recall from the book in that grid.

I launched it on Product Hunt recently, I'm interested to know how useful would you find this app and if you have any feedbacks on it. Would be greatly appreciated! Thanks a lot.

Have a good day,

Bryce

full story available on https://tichit.net/posts/nowledge

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Hello!

My name is Bryce, I'm a Software Engineer working on a indie hacking project this year. I recently built my first web app NowLedge.

NowLedge is basically an app for taking highlights in books, allowing users to take highlights very easily as they go through the book, save them and display them nicely when needed. The end goal is to build a product that helps to achieve maximum information extraction from a given document.

I started with a focus on books because that’s what I needed, in a sense NowLedge was built to solve a problem I had.

I have a lot of digital books, especially books that I want to learn from. For that purpose, I need to take notes of my understanding as I read the book, this is a common technique for using educational books efficiently.

The problem is that I am a lazy and messy person; I looked at solutions to help me easily achieve that and I could not find something that had a minimalistic interface, was really simple to use and ergonomic enough to highlight PDF documents. Since I could not find what I wanted, I decided to build it myself.

As of now, NowLedge answers to 80% of my demands: I can now read a book that I enjoy learning from, take efficient notes as I read it, access them very easily in a nice grid formatted page and download my “understanding” of the book in a matter of minutes. This works as I actually have all of the information that I want to recall from the book in that grid.

I launched it on Product Hunt recently, I'm interested to know how useful would you find this app and if you have any feedbacks on it. Would be greatly appreciated! Thanks a lot.

Have a good day,

Bryce

full story available on https://tichit.net/posts/nowledge

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