My bank asked for 17 PDF documents regarding my mortgage application.

I got tired of opening and closing files and keeping track of things. So I decided to send a single PDF with many pages, to avoid going back and forth, but that caused even more confusion.

So I came up with an idea: what if I could scroll horizontally to see the pages of a single file and then scroll vertically to see more files? That’d be a great way to navigate multiple PDFs all at once, in a simple, 2D canvas, like Figma (which by the way doesn’t support pdf imports natively).

I decided to extend the pdf standard by adding metadata to indicate where files end and where new files start. This allowed me to store multiple PDFs into a single, backwards compatible PDF. I called this new format .pdfx but it can also be stored as a regular pdf with metadata.

I was lucky, because I managed to task Claude just 3 hours before the most advanced model was shut down and I was surprised at its capabilities, it did 80% of the project in 2 hours.

It’s open-source, uses Electron with native Liquid Glass overrides with attention to UI/UX, but there are some rough edges:

https://github.com/AlexandrosGounis/pdfx

Your feedback would be highly appreciated

Logseq stores everything as plain .md files, but if you ever open one of those files directly on iOS (from Files, iCloud, Dropbox, a backup, etc.) you just get raw text. I built a small viewer to read them rendered on a phone.

Md Preview:

• Renders GitHub-Flavored Markdown — headings, tables, task lists, footnotes

• Code blocks with syntax highlighting, plus LaTeX math and Mermaid diagrams

• Opens .md / .markdown / .mdx / .rmd / .qmd from Files or the Share Sheet

• 100% on-device — no account, no uploads, no ads, no subscriptions

Free on the App Store: https://apps.apple.com/app/id6760341080

Details: https://markdown.cybergame.ai/

Not a Logseq replacement at all — just a quick way to read loose .md files when you're away from the desktop app. Curious how you all read your graph on the go.

Electron version 43 has just landed and is now available to download. It contains performance optimizations and os integration improvements

Release on Github: https://github.com/electron/electron/releases/tag/v43.0.0

Notable Changes

• The main process now boots from an embedded snapshot provided by Node.js
• Improved performance of native event emission, IPC dispatch,
• Improved performance of webRequest header conversions
• Improved performance of Linux and Windows release builds. It's based on link-time optimization and improves loading of the Electron binary on startup
• New option allowExtensions added to protocol.registerSchemesAsPrivileged(). It enables Chrome extensions on custom protocols.

Breaking changes

• File downloads now open in the Downloads folder
• Frameless windows have rounded corners on Linux by default
• Removed: showHiddenFiles from dialog API on Linux

Read about other changes in detailed report on the Electronjs website

Detailed report: https://releases.electronjs.org/release/v43.0.0

For the past few months I've been building a Windows app called Yay PDF.

The goal was simple: make a fast PDF toolbox that doesn't require uploading your files to the cloud for every little task. Everything runs locally on your PC, and it's designed to launch quickly without feeling bloated.

Current features:

• Merge PDFs
• Split PDFs
• Read PDFs
• Compress PDFs
• Add watermarks
• Lock/Unlock PDFs

I'm still actively developing it, so there are plenty more features coming.

To celebrate the launch, it's free right now for anyone who wants to try it.

Microsoft Store:
https://apps.microsoft.com/detail/9nt16cgn5dgk

I'd really appreciate honest feedback—good or bad. If there's a PDF feature you wish existed or something that annoys you about existing PDF software, let me know. I'm building this based on real user feedback rather than trying to cram in every feature imaginable.

it is basically a sticky notes (kinda) app but for images/gif over web.
you can simply install the chrome extension and app and after that just right click any image over web and "send to stickyshots" and the image will float freely on top of your desktop.
this dont require any kindof account, login and temporarily stores images (capped at 20mb limit) for 3hrs in memory.

this app doesnt really solve any real world problem but is fun to play with. (it was really a weeknd project)

hope y'all check it out and share your opinions, thanks.

Repo

Hey everyone, this year I’ve been working on Neverwrite, an open-source alternative to Obsidian with agents baked in through the ACP protocol.

From the start, I knew it was going to be difficult because of how careful you need to be with Electron. So I came up with the idea of building the backend in Rust while keeping the frontend in Electron. The speed is really good, most surfaces are virtualized, so not everything is loaded in DOM.

The results have been really good, the app stays super fast, especially when running agents, while still preserving the flexibility of using web technologies for the frontend.

The app is around 400k LOC, with about 15% of the codebase written in Rust. It might sound small, but those crabs do a hell of a good job keeping the app fast.

Has anyone tried doing something like this? Are there any other parts of the app you would port to Rust? Any feedback is appreciated. I'm pushing updates every week, this is my main tool for managing notes, documentation and general knowledge work.

https://github.com/jsgrrchg/NeverWrite