Show HN: A beautiful and local-first PDF reader for studying dense things

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Recently, I found myself having to read the book C++ primer and I just couldn t do it. Maybe my attention span is too little now with Claude and Codex, maybe I m lazy... but I just couldn t get myself to focus.While reading, I needed something to do. I wanted to talk to the text, I wanted to leave notes, I wanted to use to use my keyboard to quickly flip through pages.The only good available option on a Mac was Preview and it was ok, but definitely not there. So I built Quincy primarily for myself.With it you can - Talk to the page you re reading, create a quiz about the page, and get a good summary - Read the page out-loud. Have your Mac read to you while you follow along. This helps with comprehension. - Copy text (to paste into an LLM), leave notes, bookmarks, etc.... - Anything else you d want with a nice PDF readerIt s fully local. No cloud-sync (yet). All LLM calls are based on your keys. And TBH, you don t even need to use the AI features for this to be useful.Try it out. Let me know what you guys think. This has been a quick project, so very rough around the edges. I plan on keeping it going (still haven t finished my book), and potentially open-sourcing down the line.

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