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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.


Thanks a lot! No there'll definitely be export options. As of now there's only a beta version of exporting as a PDF, but LaTeX/Markdown is on the cards. Probably LaTeX so that we can just replace the PDF generation as well.


Yup. In India, all of these are extremely huge deals. We wanted to put up some content on the store and being a team that did well on these exams we thought the easiest way to get some original content up was to use our own notes.


Note making connected to PDFs is abysmal. As far as I know, we're one of the better tools out there. Updating PDFs is a challenge for sure. Constantly updating content is probably better suited for a wiki/notion page though. I'm curious - what kind of PDFs are you dealing with?


It's a mixture of legislative and technical documentation.

Currently I copy to OneNote but there's no linking then to see updates to the original docs within my notes.


Yup that is part of our roadmap!


This is definitely our thought process too! The aim is to get you to note things down more / access insights faster so that there's less you're relying on your brain to remember.


This is actually a legitimate concern. Productivity tools are overflowing right now, so the main confusion for us is do we aim to replace your existing notemaking suite or supplement it, For now, why not try out the free beta? Would like to know how/if it works with your workflow.


So the fun thing about the logo is it's also a pencil, the purple makes it slightly less obvious. I'm glad you got that it's a lamp - my aunt saw it and asked me why it is a random triangle. Never thought about the D parallel though, that's neat!


That's a very neat idea! Will look at a few more standards for exporting notes.


Haha thanks! Would be a nice moment to mention our mascot, if we had one. Go Blackbucks?


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