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This is super nice! I tried to build something similar (PDF reader x Stack Overflow; as you read you can see highlights that link to Stack Overflow style posts): https://chimu.sh (site is broken right now), but it didn't work out.

The thesis was to make annotated textbooks, so if 100 people read a book then the 101th person could benefit from the knowledge of the previous 100 people.

I hope you guys consider the multiplayer aspect of note-taking!

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Oh one hundred percent! That’s definitely part of our vision. Couldn’t have put it across better. So we already have a small pilot of that running with any documents you get from the Desklamp store - these have the multiplayer aspect in the form of public notes. The idea is that if you make useful notebooks like chapter summaries or some insight on a book, you can publish those for all readers of the book to see. Didn’t promote that here because we don’t have licensed content yet but you can check it out on any of the consulting books.

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