Sioyek Reviews and Details

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• Ask HN: What project do you donate to?

  Wikipedia - Not much, but I did donate to it when I was a poor student. It's not a perfect page but nothing beats it in "Exam procrastination by going in to a deep rabbit hole by clicking hyperlinks on wikipedia". Sioyek - PDF reader. I was happy to find it when it was still very new, and being among the firsts to donate to it. Pretty wholesome to see many have donated, a bit like seeing your favorite indie-band... - Source: Hacker News / about 1 year ago

• Mistral OCR

  >a UI that solves the annoying problem of looking for a referenced figure on another page, which breaks up the flow of reading. A tangent but this exact issue is what I was frustrated for a long time with pdf reader and reading science papers. Then I found sioyek that pops up a small window when you hover over links (references and equations and figures) and it solved it. Granted, the pdf file must be in right... - Source: Hacker News / over 1 year ago

• Suckless.org: software that sucks less

  Are you aware of Sioyek[0]? It's a PDF viewer with a fairly minimal UI and a focus on keyboard interaction. [0]: https://sioyek.info. - Source: Hacker News / over 1 year ago

• Foliate: Read e-books in style, navigate with ease

  Check out sioyek, it’s great and can open epubs like normal pdfs: https://sioyek.info/. - Source: Hacker News / about 2 years ago

• Sioyek is a PDF viewer with a focus on textbooks and research papers

  The website says yes: https://sioyek.info/ Link should be to the website imho. - Source: Hacker News / about 2 years ago

• PDF Reader Recommendations

  Not in the repository, but my wifey who reads a few thousand pdfs a year recommends sioyek it is made for researchers has hilighting, tts and a few dozen more features. Source: about 3 years ago

• Based on true events

  If you suffer this fate, maybe take a look at: https://sioyek.info/. Source: about 3 years ago

• No, this is not a joke. Now you cant even rotate the view in free version of Adobe Acrobat Reader.

  If you just need a reader, give a shot to sioyek 😎. Source: over 3 years ago

• Trying to setup LaTeX for either VSCode or Neovim and I'm in a bit of a predicament

  The setup ended up being fully functional, with there being one small issue. The built-in pdf viewer is decent, but I find it lacking in customizability, so I decided to switch to sioyek (mind you I am on windows). Source: over 3 years ago

• Microsoft to Replace Edge’s PDF Reader with Adobe Acrobat

  Shameless plug: If you are looking for a minimal, customizable PDF viewer with vim-like keybindings and some special features for reading research papers and textbooks, check out sioyek: https://sioyek.info. - Source: Hacker News / over 3 years ago

• [D] What do you want from a PDF viewer designed for reading research papers?

  I am the author of sioyek, an open-source PDF viewer optimized for research papers and textbooks. I have introduced it in this sub before. Source: over 3 years ago

• Ask HN: Programs that saved you 100 hours? (2022 edition)

  Sioyek: https://sioyek.info It's a PDF viewer that automatically finds and previews references in documents, even when the PDF doesn't have links. Makes reading some math books a very enjoyable experience instead of a chore. - Source: Hacker News / over 3 years ago

• Can anyone recommend a PDF Viewer specifically for datasheets?

  Sioyek has many features you should have a look at it. Source: over 3 years ago

• Pdf Reader with minimal menus

  Sioyek is my favorite PDF reader for linux. It has no menus visible by default. Source: almost 4 years ago

• You have been GNOMED!

  Have a look at Sioyek, which is designed for reading journal papers and the like. I don’t think it has link previews so, if that’s a deal breaker, it won’t be for you. But it has lots of nice features that are helpful for reading technical documents. Source: almost 4 years ago

• Can someone point me to a GOOD pdf viewer???

  My favorite is probably Sioyek, which uses the mupdf rendering library but has more features. Zathura can also be configured to use the mupdf library, and is somewhere in between the two in terms of features. Source: almost 4 years ago

• So I absolute hate the disorder of a plain white background. I find it very jarring to read. How hard and ridiculous would it be to code the pdf to look like lined paper, and have the text/equations be on these lines?

  This is a completely different kind of solution, but you could consider fixing this "problem" on the side of the PDF viewing software, rather than at creation. Sioyek has features to switch out the default colors of the document you're viewing, and apply a visual rule to highlight the present line you're reading. As a plus, it would work with any document you read, not just those you create yourself, and if you... Source: almost 4 years ago

• What is the best PDF reader for scientific papers?

  Sioyek: has all the features, but learning curve is just absolutely too steep, I need at least some kind of GUI. Source: almost 4 years ago

• Ask HN: It's Demo Day. What are you working on?

  Sioyek, a PDF viewer for reading research papers and textbooks. See the website for more info: https://sioyek.info/ And here is an article on how sioyek features help with reading documents with lots of references: https://ahrm.github.io/jekyll/update/2022/08/30/sioyek-feature-overview.html. - Source: Hacker News / almost 4 years ago

• Ask HN: Is there any decent API to download a paper given its name?

  I am developing a PDF viewer designed for reading research papers[1]. One very useful feature that I would like to add is the ability to directly download and open a paper just by clicking on its name in the PDF file. I have implemented a version of this using PyPaperBot [2] which is not bad, but it is not as fast as I would like it to be (it uses scihub which doesn't have the best servers). By parsing the html... - Source: Hacker News / almost 4 years ago

• Anyone know of a linux PDF reader with a "reading bar" similar to Skim on OSX?

  Sioyek has what it calls a "Visual ruler": I think that's more or less what you mean. Source: almost 4 years ago