Aftergleam: the few papers worth your time
aftergleam.app
Aftergleam ranks the day's new papers from arXiv, bioRxiv, medRxiv and five more preprint servers on your phone, and shows why it picked each one. Free on Google Play and F-Droid, open source, no account.

Thanks to everyone on F-Droid and GitHub for the support and kind words, it really means a lot! I’m happy to share that Aftergleam is now on Google Play too.

Researchers need to keep up with the hundreds of new papers posted every day on arXiv and other preprint servers. Aftergleam learns your interests locally on your phone, so your data never leaves your device, and shows you papers that matter.

It covers computer science, engineering, biology, medicine, chemistry, law and more. You can also set keywords to get notified about the exact topics you follow, and read papers offline as PDF or in Reader mode.

Google Play: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=si.jakobkreft.aftergleam

Website: https://aftergleam.app/

It’s open source: https://github.com/jakobkreft/Aftergleam

I hope you enjoy and find it useful as much as I do.

  • jak0b@lemmy.mlOP
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    3 days ago

    Thanks, really useful feedback! I’ll look into the missing sources from that issue. It could well be a problem for environmental science and ecology too, since I’m not too familiar with those fields. If you know or find any preprint servers people in your line of work use, feel free to add them to the issue, that would help me a lot. A News tab is an interesting idea, I’ll think about it. I do want to keep it lean and focused on papers, so it would only make sense if it fits without making the app heavier or less private. I also really like how you’re using it. Starting with broader keywords and then narrowing down is something I didn’t think of, but I’m happy you tried it and made it work!

    • SarcasticBrownnose@lemmy.zipEnglish
      1·
      3 days ago

      If you know or find any preprint servers people in your line of work use, feel free to add them to the issue, that would help me a lot.

      Definitely not my line of work. I’m on the tools - https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/2501:_Average_Familiarity

      The person that wrote the github issue seemed like they were somewhat aware of sources. Perhaps you could address the comment regarding best place to contact? A dedicated Lemmy community perhaps, spread the fediverse love?

      I understand your hyperfocus for the app, because I assume most researchers or PhD candidates are also hyperfocused. I figured that news releases regarding the field of research is also relevant in some way, finger on the pulse sort of thing. Probably not as easy as grabbing the papers as you currently are.