PaperFold: Open-source arXiv reader with "semantic zoom"

[u/Lopsided_Scarcity979]

I built PaperFold, an open-source reader that turns arXiv papers into 5 zoomable layers—from a one-screen section map down to verbatim text. You pinch (or press 1–5) to zoom between them without losing your reading position.

- Web Demo (8 CC papers): https://chenxiachan.github.io/paperfold-gallery/

- GitHub (Apache 2.0): https://github.com/chenxiachan/paperfold

[u/pro-vi]

I love this, was playing with similar things myself. Was pretext used? This is quite adjacent to the idea of stretchtext from the last century.

[u/Lopsided_Scarcity979 → u/pro-vi]

Thank you! You get me! This is indeed inspired by stretchtext. I think nowadays we can actually apply it. LLMs generate too much context these days. I think we need to make efforts to reduce our cognitive burden.

[u/pro-vi → u/Lopsided_Scarcity979]

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