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Desktopwindows · linux
The reader itself: your library, highlights and notes, and export to Markdown, ready for Obsidian.
download ↓01 / a reader with a memoryread · note · keep
Everything you read. Kept.
Highlight what matters, write down what it made you think, and find it again months later. Clio keeps your library and your notes on your computer, in files you own.
windowslinuxepubpdfmarkdowncbz
signal / 001
local library
no cloud required
no cloud required
02 — why clioread once, keep it for good
You mark a great passage today. Months later, it is still one click away.
- never lose a note
- Every note knows where it came fromHighlights and notes stay tied to their exact passage, so you can always go back to the page.
- yours
- No account. No cloud.Your library and everything you write live on your computer, and it works offline.
- portable
- Ready for ObsidianYour notes export as plain Markdown files that drop straight into an Obsidian vault, or open in any editor.
- one library
- Reads what you already haveBooks, papers, notes and comics: EPUB, PDF, Markdown and CBZ in one place.
import ✳read ✳
highlight ✳come back ✳
export ✳
03 — how it worksno sign-up, no setup
Install it, add your books, start reading. That is the whole setup.
- ImportDrop in your EPUB, PDF, Markdown and CBZ files.
- ReadA quiet page with nothing in the way.
- HighlightMark a passage and write down what it made you think.
- Come backEvery note opens the book right where you left it.
- ExportYour notes as Markdown files, ready for Obsidian.
Down the Rabbit-Hole
Alice was beginning to get very tired of sitting by her sister on the bank, and of having nothing to do: once or twice she had peeped into the book her sister was reading, but it had no pictures or conversations in it, “and what is the use of a book,” thought Alice “without pictures or conversations?”
So she was considering in her own mind (as well as she could, for the hot day made her feel very sleepy and stupid), whether the pleasure of making a daisy-chain would be worth the trouble of getting up and picking the daisies, when suddenly a White Rabbit with pink eyes ran close by her.
notes2
what is the use of a book without pictures or conversations?
Alice wants pictures and conversations. Fair.
ch. 1 · ¶ 1a White Rabbit with pink eyes
Where the story really starts.
ch. 1 · ¶ 2Interface sketch. Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (1865) is in the public domain.
use-of-a-book.mdexample
--- book: alice-in-wonderland.epub chapter: 1 tags: [books, pictures] --- > “and what is the use of a book,” > thought Alice “without pictures > or conversations?” Alice wants pictures and conversations. Fair.
A note exported to Markdown, ready to drop into an Obsidian vault. A plain file you keep forever.
today→next→later
04 — what is here, what is nextsaid plainly
nextin the works
Obsidianplugin
Bring your highlights and notes into your Obsidian vault, with links that open the passage back in Clio.
laterplanned
Android
Keep reading and taking notes on your phone, with the same library.
a promiseWhatever comes next, your library stays on your devices, in files you own.
05 — downloadavailable today
Your library.Your files.
- WindowsReady to installdownload ↓
- LinuxReady to installdownload ↓
- Obsidian pluginin the worksnext
- Androidplannedlater
source code[repository and license when public]