Show HN: Booky – app to organize notes from books you read

Posted by moriquendi on Friday December 20, 2019 @12:44PM
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Hi folks, I've launched "Booky" - app for organizing notes from books you read.

App Store: https://apps.apple.com/pl/app/booky-organize-books-notes/id1492092565

With the app you can: 1. Snap picture of the book while you're reading it 2. Quickly highlight your favorite quotes 3. Sync your book shelf with Goodreads 4. Search in the notes you scanned

Promo video: https://www.dropbox.com/s/lfnwb8cvi5oyfd9/preview.mov?dl=0

Those features are similar to what you might find in ebooks apps but the app enables you to do that with physical books. I'm not sure how to build any business model around it so I'd love to hear your suggestions :)

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Re:Show HN: Booky – app to organize notes from books you read by kuzee on Friday December 20, 2019 @08:33PM (#21848969)

I'll pay you $5/mo if it includes an intelligent way to sync the images I take of my book pages to my Google Drive in an organized way, such as per book. Adding in text that was OCRd and therefore searchable would also be great. So far my manual process is moving photos in Google Photos (I'm on Android) which is so-so. I'm fine with ads if I'm not paying.

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Re:Show HN: Booky – app to organize notes from books you read by moriquendi on Saturday December 21, 2019 @06:13AM (#21850775)

That's super interesting to hear. I'll definitely think about adding an auto-export feature soon. Kuzee, is there any way I could reach out to you privately? Email, whatsapp or similar? I'd love to ask you some questions about your process if you don't mind.

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Re:Show HN: Booky – app to organize notes from books you read by fadhilahwahid on Saturday December 21, 2019 @11:14AM (#21851842)

I’d love for the option to choose an existing photo from my album :)

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Re:Show HN: Booky – app to organize notes from books you read by moriquendi on Sunday December 22, 2019 @03:44AM (#21855990)

You got it. Will be adding that soon :)

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Re:Show HN: Booky – app to organize notes from books you read by jhymn on Friday December 20, 2019 @06:41PM (#21848374)

I use Readwise.io almost obsessively and would use your app too, but I'm on Android. Any plans for an Android app?

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Re:Show HN: Booky – app to organize notes from books you read by vageli on Saturday December 21, 2019 @11:28AM (#21851926)

> I use Readwise.io almost obsessively and would use your app too, but I'm on Android. Any plans for an Android app?

Are you on the lite plan or the full version? Could you speak more to how you use the app/what you get out of it?

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Re:Show HN: Booky – app to organize notes from books you read by moriquendi on Saturday December 21, 2019 @06:11AM (#21850767)

I hope so! That mainly depends on how much traction I can get on iOS. If there's decent interest, I'd love to invest my time into building Android app.

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Re:Show HN: Booky – app to organize notes from books you read by greenie_beans on Friday December 20, 2019 @04:50PM (#21847669)

cool! i'll definitely use this. kinda similar to something i'm working on but not for physical books. this could be useful for academics, journalists, writers, etc

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Re:Show HN: Booky – app to organize notes from books you read by moriquendi on Saturday December 21, 2019 @06:10AM (#21850761)

Thanks :) Is there anything you'd add to the app? And what can you say what are you working on? I'd love to test it as well! :)

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Re:Show HN: Booky – app to organize notes from books you read by vo2maxer on Friday December 20, 2019 @05:21PM (#21847894)

I will definitely try it. It looks really nice.

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Re:Show HN: Booky – app to organize notes from books you read by moriquendi on Saturday December 21, 2019 @06:09AM (#21850759)

Thanks a lot :) I'd appreciate a lot if you could name one thing which you're missing in the app. This would help me a lot.

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Re:Show HN: Booky – app to organize notes from books you read by heymartinadams on Friday December 20, 2019 @06:03PM (#21848157)

Nice work!

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Re:Show HN: Booky – app to organize notes from books you read by moriquendi on Saturday December 21, 2019 @06:08AM (#21850758)

Thanks a lot :) I'd appreciate a lot if you could name one thing which you're missing in the app.

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