Side by side

Keep the figure beside you as you read on

Keep a figure in the figure panel while you read on, and put the original PDF page or a second paper beside the one you are reading. No more scrolling back and forth.

Reading Mode beside the original PDF page on an Android tablet

Recorded on an Android tablet. The same app runs on phones and E Ink devices.

How it works

See it in use

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Beside the original page

In Reading Mode, the side-by-side button at the top, or a long press on the round button, puts the original page next to the reflowed text. Your marks show on both.

Reading Mode beside the original PDF page on an Android tablet
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The figure, next to the text

Open the figure panel from the top bar, and the figure or table nearest your page appears beside the text. In Reading Mode, the pin on a figure card sends that figure to the panel.

A figure pinned beside the text on an Android tablet
When you'd use it

Where it fits in your day

In the methods section

Follow the text with the figure in view

With the figure in the panel, you never have to scroll back to its page.

Comparing with earlier work

Two papers, left and right

Long-press a paper in the library and choose Open in right pane. The right pane is for reading; you write in the left one.

Following references

From a citation number to the paper

Tap a citation such as [12] to see the reference. If it's in your library, Open with my notes brings it up with your own notes.

The details

One paper, two panes
The two-pane button in the top bar shows the same paper twice; the second pane starts on the next page.
Always left and right
On Android, the two panes always sit side by side.
Open papers
Keep up to eight papers open, and swipe in from the edge of the screen to switch between them.
In your library?
A citation card also tells you whether that paper is already in your library.
Go to the figure
Go to page, in the figure panel, takes you to the page the figure is on.
Free
The figure panel and citation cards are free. Opening a paper beside another is part of the purchase.

Now on Android

Rectoly runs on Android phones, tablets and E Ink devices such as Boox. The app comes from this site, and one purchase covers it together with iPad, Windows and Mac.