Desklamp

Hey Everyone! 👋 I’m Prajwal, a co-founder of Desklamp along with @akash_anand9 . We’ve just finished our undergrad at the Indian Institute of Technology Madras. First of all, a huge shout out to @kevin for hunting us! As students, a lot of the reading we did at college was in the form of digital documents. All our textbooks and lecture notes were PDFs shared by our professors. Our experience reading these PDFs was, to put it bluntly, awful. Reading boiled down to staring at the screen and scrolling mindlessly. We would regularly find ourselves coming back to look at the same PDF like we were seeing it for the first time. Worst of all, reading had become boring and we often found ourselves zoning out without really trying to understand what we read. Akash and I realised this wasn’t just us. Everybody disliked reading on their laptops. We found it rather odd how we had access to these powerful machines but people still preferred reading physical documents. With too much time on our hands and nothing better to do, we decided to do our best to change this. That’s why we built Desklamp! Desklamp aims to be the easiest way to save your insights as you read, and provide you with a way to quickly recover and go back to those insights whenever you need to. Here are some cool things you can do with Desklamp: 1. 📝 Make beautiful and easily accessible margin-notes as you read. Link ideas in your notes back to the source location in the text. 2. 🔍 View and search through all your highlights and annotations at a glance without having to scroll through each page. 3. 🗺️ Navigate across far-apart sections in PDFs without having to scroll up and down 4. 👥 Collaborate on PDFs and notebooks in real-time with teammates As Desklamp grew, we realised we were building something that could help a LOT of people - basically anyone who has to read actively. The journey so far has been so much fun that we’ve decided to pursue this full time: our mission has become to change the way the world reads. So whether you’re a doctor studying clinical trials, a lawyer scrutinising contracts, a consultant skimming through reports, an engineer perusing papers, or even a circus master reading How To Shoot A Person From a Cannon For Dummies, we’re sure Desklamp has something for you. Do give it a try; it’s completely free, and we can’t wait to hear your feedback 🙂  Desklamp is available on the laptop as a web app and a native desktop app. Check it out at www.desklamp.io! This is our first time on Product Hunt, and the first time either of us have built something we’re this proud of. If you’ve got any questions, or feedback of any kind, we’re here to help! Let us know what you think!

I wish I had this during college! I'm sure it would've saved me so much time in manual notetaking and helped me revise stuff faster. I will try it out and definitely recommend this to my friends. Great product! Congratulations on the launch! 🚀

@prajwal_prakash This is very useful and interesting. I'll certainly check it out and thank you and the team for creating it!