Memoirify

Memoirify is simply an online markdown feature that supports nice features such as:

• Instant rendering for common elements, drag-and-drop fot images and a dark theme
• Resize the text content of the editor to the width that suits you
• Quick text highlighting and switching with shortcuts (ctrl+num)
• Viewing PDFs side by side with the editor
• Magical features to preprocess text (e.g., what I like to call streamlining text)
• Allows you to download your current edit of the markdown or start by editing an existing one on your machine

To run

npm install  npm start  new terminal
cd server  pip install -r requirements.txt  python3 server.py

Demo

Memoirify-Demo.webm

It's a general purpose editor but my motivation to build this was to implement the streamlining text feature as shown in the end of the video. This feature useful in two cases: (i), you want to read a paragraph while your brain consumes less ATP molecules in less time or (ii), you are looking to thoroughly study some text (e.g., for a review).

Note that streamlining relies on text being well written for good results (e.g., good punctuation, low ambiguity, etc.). It's a simple approach without any deep learning or LLMs; although the later may be added in the future.

Future Work & Limitations

This project is currently a work in progress with an anticipated slow down. Some limitations that I may address in the long-term are:

• Prompt user for file name so it doesn't download as markdown.md
• Eliminate Regex from the streamline implementation (inefficient)
• Project should be dockerized for easier execution (and possibly be deployed)
• Streamlining may fail if the text is not raw (e.g., highlighted or has links) or has special characters (e.g., >)
• Current highlighting is a little buggy (e.g., highlighting backwards). Nontrivial to improve but got to keep trying.
• Introduce LLMs for better streamlining (especially indenting), summarization, restructuring and other features
• More error handling in the backend