For readers of difficult scholarly texts
Read hard books with the whole conversation around them in view.
Upload a work of philosophy, a monograph, or a research article. Palimnote turns it into an annotated edition — the original text, its citations traced to real sources, the intellectual context it assumes, and a personalized, dependency-ordered plan for what to read to actually understand it.
Every inferred claim carries a confidence and a source. It’s a research aid — never a substitute for the primary text.
The reader
Annotations that show their work
Hover any marker and see what a passage references, why, and how sure the system is — with the exact source text that triggered it. Approve, edit, or dismiss anything. Original footnotes, automated annotations, and your own notes stay visually distinct.
The question of the meaning of Being must be raised anew. Here the inquiry builds directly on Kant’s transcendental method, which first cleared the ground for the question.
Critique of Pure Reason — Immanuel Kant
Shaped the ideas of the primary text. Resolved to a bibliographic record via Crossref.
The roadmap
A reading order, not a pile of citations
Every reference is ranked into priority tiers and ordered by what depends on what. Rate what you already know and the plan re-sorts to skip it. Filter by time budget, depth, or expertise.
Essential
Critique of Pure Reason
A prerequisite — read first.
High priority
Logical Investigations
Shaped the text’s method.
Comparative
The Myth of Sisyphus
A parallel, not a prerequisite.
The knowledge graph
See what you’ve read — and what you’re missing
Your library as a map: works, the readings they reference, and the gaps. Referenced-but-unacquired sources show as missing links, so you can see the shape of a field before you’re deep in it. A full 3D view lives behind login, with an accessible table for every node.
How it works
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Upload
PDF, EPUB, or plain text. It’s parsed, footnotes detected, metadata confirmed by you.
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Analyze
Citations are extracted and resolved against real bibliographic sources; each reference is classified by how it relates to the text.
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Read
Open the annotated edition. Highlight, note, bookmark — everything anchored to survive re-rendering.
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Plan & map
Get a personalized reading roadmap and a knowledge graph of the field, both shaped by what you already know.
New to a field
Start with the essentials. The roadmap surfaces the few prerequisites that actually unlock a difficult text, in the order they build on each other — so you don’t drown in a bibliography.
Working researcher
See the full contextual and comparative tail, trace every citation to its source, flag disagreements and interpretive aids, and map how a work sits in its intellectual tradition.
Built to be trusted, not believed
Provenance on every claim
Every automated annotation records the classification model or rule that produced it, the prompt version, and the verbatim passage that triggered it.
No invented sources
Bibliographic facts come only from real lookups (Crossref, OpenAlex, Open Library) — never generated. Unmatched citations stay flagged, not guessed.
Confidence, always shown
Nothing is presented as settled scholarship. You verify against the primary text, and can correct or hide anything.
Your data is yours
Per-user isolation throughout. Uploads are yours to delete; content is never used to train models without explicit opt-in.
Bring the hardest thing on your shelf.
Create an account and turn your first difficult text into an annotated critical edition.