[jgraeupner]

I originally did a PhD in chemistry - spent loooooots of time organizing papers, research, files, etc... hated using platforms like Mendeley and many other inefficient file / knowledge management systems. Also extracting the information into one space and working with the knowledge was super clunky...

When I met my co-founder, he was actually already working on a solution for this. Obviously, we vibed immediately We're now working on a reading tool that allows you to build a knowledge base directly from your reading. The tool already supports importing and reading of pdf, epub, and capturing webpages. The tool has an integrated reader that allows you to do a whole bunch of stuff, including incremental reading and creating flashcards directly from annotations Various other features are in there and we have a long list of features coming up. We also have a native Android app coming out in the near future

This is what we're building: https://getpolarized.io Would love to hear your feedback. We're actually very close to a major release. if you're curious, you can play around with the beta of that release here: https://beta.getpolarized.io (you'll need an account to do so)

Not quite a startup in the chem space, but 100% a problem that I encountered every day and I'm sure many other PhDs, software engineers, and other knowledge workers encounter :)