ScholArxiv is an open-source aesthetic and minimal app that allows users to search, read, bookmark, share, download and view summaries of academic papers from the arXiv repository that you can download now.
Features
Read Papers: Read entire papers in detail within the app.
Bookmarks: Save your favorite papers for quick access.
Summaries: View and listen to brief paper summaries.
Search Papers: Search for papers using keywords, titles, authors and abstract. If no keyword is provided the app suggests random popular papers.
Download and Share Papers: Download papers for offline reading or you can share document links to others.
You know what else might be cool is a "see related" feature, whenever a paper references another, create a link between them and create an almost recomendation engine based on that. Ideally, you could then look at a kind of discoverability family tree of how the paper's evolved.
This is likely hard to implement and only wishful thinking, but I think it would be neat.
B) this has further radicalized me into pure web development. What native features does this take advantage of that couldn’t be accomplished just as easily in typescript? I don’t have an android :(
What about offline access to documents, bookmarks, summaries and other data you already downloaded? How would accessing this through a browser provide this reliably? Honest question.
one suggestion i have is to add a few images or a short video of you using the app. personally i dont usually download apps to just try them out, without at least having some idea of what to expect
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1. It will be a lot better if the Summary popup can be stretched to full-screen with font size controls.
2. There needs to be a feature to browse papers based on subjects and other applicable categories.
3. There need to be playback controls (pause, rewind, etc.) for audio narration of the summaries.
4. Themes customization and dark mode will also be great features to have.
Really love the concept by the way!
Features
Read Papers: Read entire papers in detail within the app.
Bookmarks: Save your favorite papers for quick access.
Summaries: View and listen to brief paper summaries.
Search Papers: Search for papers using keywords, titles, authors and abstract. If no keyword is provided the app suggests random popular papers.
Download and Share Papers: Download papers for offline reading or you can share document links to others.
This is likely hard to implement and only wishful thinking, but I think it would be neat.
B) this has further radicalized me into pure web development. What native features does this take advantage of that couldn’t be accomplished just as easily in typescript? I don’t have an android :(
B. Nothing that serious, it can definitely be a webapp. And currently working on doing that. I'd be happy if you'd like to contribute.
I hope to see this linked from Arxiv itself some day soon!