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Show HN: Annotate PDFs in Markdown

39 pointsby bx376over 3 years ago

7 comments

shaknaover 3 years ago
Slightly tangential, but Markdown does actually &quot;kinda&quot; support comments with a little bit of abuse of the link syntax. Almost every renderer will swallow the comment in the following example:<p><pre><code> &gt; This is a quote of some kind [&#x2F;&#x2F;]: # (This won&#x27;t be in the rendered output.) Blah blah blah </code></pre> Keypoints brings a lot of other things to the table than just comments, including an upcoming possibility of crosslinking between PDF docs [0], but I&#x27;ve wanted to add annotations often enough to small Markdown documents enough that I&#x27;ve memorised the above little trick. It even works with the original Markdown.pl implementation.<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;keypoints.app&#x2F;forums&#x2F;viewtopic.php?f=2&amp;p=788" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;keypoints.app&#x2F;forums&#x2F;viewtopic.php?f=2&amp;p=788</a>
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gbraadover 3 years ago
Lost interest when I read &quot;for the Mac&quot;
rpwilcoxover 3 years ago
I am interested to see how this compares to <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;highlightsapp.net&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;highlightsapp.net&#x2F;</a> but it looks neat, especially if it starts at a place of integration with other platforms.
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jiriroover 3 years ago
Devonthink does PDF annotation quite good. The annotation can be markdown or RTF.<p>It’s a whole database system so it might be a little heavy weight for just annotation. Mac only I think.
bx376over 3 years ago
Met this by accident. The app is not under intense development, and doesn&#x27;t have alpha&#x2F;beta release.
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thekalebover 3 years ago
Are there any plans to expand the narrow platform support?
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felixg3over 3 years ago
is there a viable linux alternative to this?
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