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Show HN: Thinker App – Automate Your Information Intake

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20 pointspersonjerry8 comments

Waiting for the android version too. Maybe make the Android button clickable which opens a popup and asks people to enter email ID so they can get an email when you finally launch it on android.

I feel like it's better described as 'Filter your information intake' because according to what it says on the website, it highlights and extracts the non-(advertisy, rambly, clickbaity, etc) information.

I can't try it yet because there's no android version out unfortunately

Imho it needs to be native to feel nice to use. It feels 100% web view and doesn’t look very slick. Ie. At minimum swipe back and forth in the article stream. Right now it reveals the side bar, which is painful.

Hey HN! I built this app that basically reads articles for you.

I found I was opening too many HN articles and then never getting around to reading them, so I wrote a little script to help. I had tried bookmarking apps but they actually enabled my procrastination. I got some interest from friends, so I fleshed out the script into a small service, added some convenience features, and this is where I'm at.

Please hit me with any questions or feedback! I'd love to hear what you think.

I also added HACKER1 as a promo code in-app so HNers can get a free month of service :)

I took a look at the example articles and I just want to say that for a 13" macbook retina display with default 2x scaling at 1280x800, I found the font size to be a bit too small and thin. I personally liked it a bit more at font-size of 1.2em with a font-weight of 400, but that could use some fine tuning perhaps. I think the main issue is that using pt can be a problem, em/rem would display more consistently across screens.

    Thinker is an app that automates your learning. It enables you to:
    - Jump to key info instantly using AI.
    - Stop redundantly checking sites like Hacker News.
    - Permanently archive every article.

How are you archiving the articles?

What I'm doing right now is saving the page's HTML. Later on I plan to save the assets too.

Interesting app, I see you've got an Android app planned too, just curious if you're going cross platform and if so what you've created it with?

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