Collect & Extract Knowledge
Zenreader comes with a state-of-the-art document reader and a powerful note taking engine, both designed to help you do background research rapidly and systematically.
Document Reader
The document reader makes it extremely easy to read documents and synthesise their contents, so that you can read the document once and never have to look at it again.
Glance at a document's figures, captions and tables. No more endless scrolling through documents. Rapidly decide whether you should invest time reading the document.
Snippets
Take notes from your documents by selecting text, images and more. Add tags and comments so that you have ready-to-use knowledge that is automatically organised for you.
Learn more about Zenreader snippetsImport webpages
Import webpages into Zenreader and extract snippets from them. Zenreader downloads each page as a PDF, creating a snapshot of the page's contents for future reference.
OCR
Zenreader has Optical Character Recognition, meaning that you can convert scanned documents or images to selectable and editable text.
Algorithms
We are developing algorithms to analyse documents and snippets so that we can offer amazing features to boost your research and knowledge organisation tasks.
Organise & Deliver (your best work)
Zenreader helps you deliver your best work, 10x faster because it adopts a systematic and well tested approach.
Tags
Tag your snippets and documents, Zenreader organises them for you automatically. Quickly find everything, anywhere. Never lose your work again.
You can create as many tags as you need and group them together to have full flexibility.
Notes Outliner
Pull together your work by writing beautiful notes in the outliner. Drag and drop all your research and Zenreader takes care of the citations. With one click, you can go back to the original source documents, to review where information comes from.
Backtrack
With one click, Zenreader takes you back to the original location of each piece of research that you have extracted and used.
Export
Export your work in Markdown, HTML, PDF and Word/LibreOffice/OpenOffice. Coming soon: Google Docs, OneNote & Evernote.
Drag & Drop Anything
Pulling your work together is fast. Drag & drop outlines or snippets into your notes, connecting together all of your work.
Find & Retrieve Knowledge
Zenreader comes with powerful search tools, making it very quick for you to find what you're looking for, whether it's something inside a document, a snippet you extracted 6 months ago or something you wrote in an outline.
Document Search Engine
Zenreader has lightning fast search across all the documents of a project. Find exactly what you're looking for without the need to scroll through hundreds of pages of text. Narrow down your search results without having to enter complex search queries.
Search
Filter by tag(s), text, date and much more. Zenreader makes it very easy for you to access all of your work and retrieve everything that you have done.
Keyword Extraction
Zenreader extracts keywords out of documents and improves its search results with this information.
Textual Analysis
Zenreader helps make your writing more clear, simple and useful by giving you measures of readability, text complexity and identifying certain kinds of vague words.
Coming Soon: Multiple Devices
We are working on making Zenreader available on tablets as well.
Professional Productivity
Zenreader is packed with tools and techniques employed by the best teams and professionals. From Getting Things Done, to Agile (thank you Atlassian for the explanations!), to our own productivity hacks, Zenreader takes away time-wasters, letting you focus on what matters most: getting your work done.
Document Kanban Board - keep track of what needs doing.
Document Kanban
Zenreader lets you move your work forwards by helping you focus on what needs doing. Use Kanban columns to define your ideal workflow. Move your documents (and tasks) onto the right lists and get the most important stuff from "To Do" to "Done" first.
Tasks Screen: capture your tasks, thoughts and ideas.
Task Lists
Zenreader comes with a rapid way to capture ideas, thoughts and tasks so that you don't get distracted, lose your flow or what is important to you.
Simple yet functional reference management
References
Zenreader handles document references. Where possible, it automatically detects citation information. You can export citations in 1900+ academic styles. You can rapidly update document bibliographic information.
Custom Workspaces
You can adapt each workspace of Zenreader to your needs, placing the right tools for the job next to each other.
Shortcuts
Zenreader comes with handy shortcuts to help you jump to the right screen or to rapidly open documents or notes.
Encrypted Data
You have the option to encrypt all the data you produce with Zenreader, when it is stored locally on your machine.
Avoid Unintentional Plagiarism
Zenreader helps you to avoid unintentional plagiarism by keeping track of where your snippets come from so that you don't accidentally forget to cite the original source.
Find out howWhat our users have to say
Zenreader has enabled many happy users to do their best work: overdelivering, in less time, having more fun!
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