@JiweiYuan: Recently built a Mac-native AI reading tool called OakReader. While reading PDF papers/eBooks or browsing the web, when you're confused, just press a button to open the sidebar, select a passage of text, and you can discuss it with your favorite AI model without ever having to switch to ChatGPT / Claude / …
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OakReader is a Mac-native AI reading tool that supports reading PDF papers/eBooks and web pages. It comes with built-in sidebar AI chat, note-taking, translation, browser, and reference management features, and can be configured with multiple AI models.
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Recently, I developed a Mac-native AI reading tool called OakReader. When reading PDF papers/ebooks or browsing the web, if you encounter confusion, just press a button to open the sidebar, circle a passage, and discuss it with your favorite AI model—no more switching to ChatGPT/Claude/DeepSeek for chatting.
For thoughts during reading, press a button to open the note plugin, allowing you to take notes casually like Flomo/Slack/WeChat. When you need to translate foreign literature, instantly open the built-in translation plugin. It also has a built-in browser function, so you can directly browse saved web pages.
For literature management, this tool also supports the same functionality as Zotero, including catalog label management and citation management. For AI model configuration, you can configure your API Key, or log in via OAuth with your ChatGPT account, completely free.
This tool incorporates many of my thoughts on the product design of AI reading tools. Interested friends are welcome to download, try it out, and provide feedback at http://oakreader.com
Oak | The AI knowledge base you and your agent share
Source: https://oakreader.com/ An AI knowledge base, shared by you and your agent.
Everything you read.Your AI can find.
Keep everything you read in one place — then let an AI search and answer across all of it, with citations you can open.
Bring yourPDFsPapersWeb pagesBooks
AI knowledge base
Your sources, notes, and answers in one place.
Library
Everything you read, one place
Every PDF, paper, and web page in collections and tags — with full-text search that even understands 中日韩.
Ask
Chat with what you’re reading
Attach a page or a selection and ask — Oak answers right beside the document, in context, with formatted notes, code, and rendered math.
Translate
Translate inline, never break flow
Select any passage to see it in your language right beside the original — sentence by sentence, no copy-paste, no jumping to a separate translation app.
Understand
Go deep on any word
Tap a word for a rich card — meaning, nuance, collocations, and a one-line gist.
Notes
Highlight, note, keep
Mark up any page and your notes collect in one panel — text and image clippings, searchable across everything you read.
Browse
The web, built in
Search, open a link, and read live pages with your logins intact — then save what matters to your library.
Model-agnostic
Use any model. Switch anytime.
Pick the best model for each question — from frontier labs to a local one on your Mac. You decide.
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