A cloud workspace
for reading research.

ParkourNote keeps your papers, books, web pages, videos and recordings; transcribes and translates them; and reads along with you — pages, notes, dictionary and chat tiled side by side, in the browser, on any machine you sign in from. It writes with you too: Typst and LaTeX documents the chat can edit in place.

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What it does

Nine things
  1. 01Library
  2. 02Workspace
  3. 03Reader
  4. 04Chat
  5. 05Writing
  6. 06Video
  7. 07Recordings
  8. 08Extension
  9. 09Feeds
01The library

Everything you read, in one place

The ParkourNote library: an inbox of newly imported items — papers, a book, a clipped page — and projects down the side
Fig. 1The library — an inbox of what you haven't planned yet, projects for what you have.
  • Papers from an arXiv id, an abstract link or a PDF — title, authors, abstract and version come attached. Books as EPUB. Markdown files. Pages clipped from the web, with a full snapshot if you want one. Videos from YouTube, Bilibili or an MP4. Your own recordings.
  • There are no folders. Imports land in an inbox and leave it only when you say why you are reading them: a project. One item can belong to several; deleting a project never loses it.
  • Identical files are deduplicated across the whole library by content hash.
02The workspace

Papers, notes and chat, tiled in one window

A tiled ParkourNote workspace: two papers, a note document and the project chat arranged side by side
Fig. 2One project, tiled — papers, notes and the chat sharing a single window.
  • Everything opens as a tile: readers, note documents, the project chat. Split them, drag them, stack them — two papers side by side with your notes between them.
  • The layout belongs to the project and is still there tomorrow, on any machine you sign in from.
  • The whole room restyles with you, from paper-white to dusk to dark.
03The reader

One paper, every way to read it

A paper open with translations on, each block of the page paired with its translation
Fig. 3Translations on — every block of the page answered by its translation, in place.
  • Original pages, with a text layer you can select, highlight and reference.
  • Transcription turns the pages you choose into stable source blocks — editable, Notion-style, with every block linked back to its place on the page. Long books split into a document per chapter.
  • Translation, block by block: each translation expands in place under its source block, maths and figures intact, on the pages, in the document, or both.
  • One contents dock — the AI outline's parts and chapters — steers PDF and document alike.
  • Select a word and a dictionary card answers in place — a curated default set plus MDX/MDD dictionaries of your own. Box a formula on the page and it comes back as editable math.
04The chat

It has read the page you're on

The reading pane beside a chat thread, with a highlight the assistant created on the page
Fig. 4Ask about the page you're on — the answer can leave a highlight behind.
  • A chat scoped to one paper or a whole project. Every message carries what you can see: the visible pages, the passages you attached, the annotation in focus.
  • It reads other pages, searches the web, arXiv and your library, and opens a related paper in the reader.
  • Ask it to highlight something and the highlight is yours — anchored in the page, editable, permanent. Select a sentence or formula, send it as a reference, and the reply links straight back to the source.
  • Paste a screenshot and ask about it, or dictate your message. Every thread keeps — per paper, per project, all of them one list you can pick back up.
05Writing

Typst and LaTeX documents, compiled as you write

A compiled Typst paper in the reader beside a chat thread whose reply carries edit chips for the passages it changed
Fig. 5A Typst paper in the reader — the chat edited the source, and each edit is a chip you can inspect or revert.
  • Start from a template or upload a .typ, a .tex or a whole project archive. The compiled pages open in the reader with the same highlights, contents dock and chat as any paper.
  • Click a line on the page and the source opens at that line; edit the source and the page recompiles.
  • Ask the chat to change something and it edits the source directly. Each change is a chip in the reply: open it to see the diff, show it on the page, jump to the source, or revert it.
  • Select a passage and press ⌘K to have it rewritten in place — or say the change out loud. Tag a revision and download the PDF.
06Video notes

Notes pinned to the moment

A lecture video open in the reader with notes beside it, each note anchored to a time in the video
Fig. 6A lecture in the reader — notes on the side, each anchored to the second it was written at.
  • Paste a YouTube or Bilibili link, or upload an MP4. The video opens as a tile like any paper, and sits in projects next to the papers it goes with.
  • Start typing and the time is pinned; a frame from the player rides along in the note. Saved notes carry a time chip that seeks the player back to that second.
  • Ask the chat about the video and it knows where you are and what is on screen.
  • Notes are ordinary note documents — math, images, links to the papers beside them.
07Recordings

Record the meeting, keep the minutes

A recorded meeting: the AI-written minutes with time chips on one side, the timestamped transcript on the other, and the player at the bottom
Fig. 7A recorded lab meeting — minutes with time chips, the transcript beside them, the player below.
  • Record straight from the browser into a note. The recording uploads as you talk; pause and continue as often as you like, and every take is kept.
  • When you stop, the recording is transcribed and the AI writes the minutes — each point linked to the moment it was said, playable in place.
  • While you type, chips tie your own notes to the time you wrote them.
  • Read the minutes, the transcript, or both side by side.
08Browser extension

ParkourNote in Chrome's side panel

A Bilibili lecture with the ParkourNote side panel open beside it: a saved note with a frame from the player and a chat reply about the video
Fig. 8A lecture on Bilibili with the side panel open — a note saved with a frame from the player, and a question answered about the moment.
  • One click opens the side panel on any page. Sign in once and it stays signed in.
  • On YouTube or Bilibili: notes pinned to the time, with a screenshot of the player, and a chat that can see what is on screen.
  • On arXiv or a publisher's PDF: import the paper to your library. On any other page: clip it as an article, with a full snapshot if you want it.
  • Replies stream in, with maths and Markdown rendered as in the app.
09Feeds

RSS, Atom and JSON feeds in the library

An arXiv category feed open inside a project, entries listed newest first with an entry's full text beside them
Fig. 9An arXiv feed placed in a project — entries read in place, converted only on request.
  • Subscribe to a feed and its entries arrive in a feed tile, newest first, with excerpts. Open one and the full text reads in place.
  • Feeds live in projects too, next to the papers they lead to.
  • Convert an entry to a document when it deserves highlights, translation or a chat — nothing is converted until you say so.
  • Import and export OPML.
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Your next paper is one paste away

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