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Palimnote Development

A reader built in layers.

Palimnote develops the way a critical edition does: through accumulated readings, revisions, and clearer connections back to the source. This page records the public shape of that work.

Current development

v.6Refinement in the open

In progress

The new beta refines the whole workspace in response to live use — sharpening the research tools, reading surfaces, and public site as readers put them to work.

Phases 24–30

v.5A more expressive scholarly workspace

Released

This release reshaped Palimnote into a more tactile, readable, and responsive place to study difficult texts, and opened the Research workspace.

  • Introduced the editorial motion and interaction foundation, with reader-controlled motion and interface sound settings.
  • Refined the public site with readable editorial motion, tactile feedback, and an accessible interactive knowledge graph.
  • Polished the signed-in dashboard, library, upload, roadmap, graph, trash, and writing surfaces with richer selection, progress, loading, and empty states.
  • Reworked reader marginalia so notes stay clear of the side rails, and laid the verified foundation for labelled foreign-text recovery, transliteration, and translation.
  • Published the Beta v.5 badge and a public development timeline tracing Palimnote’s releases from foundation to the current work.
  • Removed user-facing processing cost data while keeping analysis available without monetary figures.
  • Gave Ask Library conversations a guided greeting with suggested questions, thinking and reply cues with optional sound, day-grouped messages, and a way to switch between past conversations.
  • Added a feedback option to every page footer — report a bug, share an idea, or send praise without leaving the page.
  • Rebuilt the Visualization map: a plate-style backdrop with glowing emphasis, distinct shapes for works, people, and concepts, reading-state and credibility cues, curved connection lines, a concepts focus mode, and an equally capable sortable table view.
  • Added account pages: edit your profile and avatar, see your reading activity at a glance, review your plan, control data sharing, and delete your account with a safe, fully verified cleanup.
  • Fixed a glitch where the account and settings menus would close by themselves right after a page loaded.
  • Menus now stay open even when a mouse or trackpad accidentally double-fires a click.
  • Menus now ignore accidental repeat clicks entirely and close when you click anywhere else — matching how menus usually behave.
  • Opened the Research workspace: create projects across your library, extract each work's claims with verbatim source excerpts, and trace agreements, disagreements, and debates between works.
  • Added evidence-centred study tools — debate clusters, evidence reviews, and suggested hypotheses — each carrying confidence and a path back to the source passage.
  • Brought dedicated research modes to Ask Library, and let projects import outside works by DOI or reference so a debate can include literature beyond your uploads.
  • Added scheduled monitoring for newly relevant literature, plus a full correction trail: verify, dispute, edit, hide, or restore any generated claim with its revision history preserved.

Phases 19–23

v.4Reliability, accessibility, and completion

Released

A broad completion program made the working research environment more dependable, consistent, and accessible across its core reading flows.

  • Strengthened processing reliability and made document status easier to understand.
  • Expanded keyboard, screen-reader, contrast, and responsive-layout coverage.
  • Unified the product interface and hardened the paths readers use most often.

Phases 12–18

v.3From edition to connected workspace

Released

Palimnote grew beyond a single reading surface into a connected environment for writing, exploration, and questions grounded in a reader’s own library.

  • Added the Writer workspace for developing ideas alongside source material.
  • Made relationships between works explorable through the research visualization.
  • Introduced Ask Library for passage- and citation-grounded conversations.

Phases 8–11

v.2A critical-edition learning workspace

Released

The early reader became a more rigorous critical-edition pipeline and a personal learning workspace, taking on the Palimnote name.

  • Deepened structural analysis, citation resolution, and passage-anchored annotation.
  • Added learning routes and workspace tools that preserve the path back to the source.
  • Established Palimnote’s scholarly identity across the reading experience.

Phases 0–7

v.1The foundation

Released

The first release proved the central idea: a reader could upload a difficult work and receive a traceable study environment around it.

  • Established accounts, document upload, and the first interactive reader.
  • Connected analysis, annotation, and a dependency-ordered reading roadmap.
  • Built the initial public site and hardened the end-to-end foundation.