{"repo":"drpwchen/textbook-to-note","free":true,"listed":false,"github":"https://github.com/drpwchen/textbook-to-note","clone":"git clone https://github.com/drpwchen/textbook-to-note.git","description":"Turn your own PDF textbooks into an AI-searchable knowledge base and structured, fully-cited notes — figures included. Local-first, token-frugal.","language":"Python","stars":93,"topics":["claude-code","note-taking","obsidian","ocr","pdf-to-markdown","rag"],"license":"MIT","category":"productivity","readme_excerpt":"textbook-to-note Turn your own PDF textbooks into an AI-searchable knowledge base and structured, fully-cited notes — figures included. A local-first pipeline that spends (almost) zero LLM tokens on the heavy lifting and reserves the frontier model for the one thing it's uniquely good at: synthesizing a note you can actually learn from. 繁體中文說明 → README.zh-TW.md Why I built this I've loved taking notes since med school, and over the years I've built up thousands of them — but I can no longer keep every one at the same quality by hand. In an age of information overload, trustworthy high-quality sources become the precious thing, and textbooks are among the best; yet my specialty alone has 40+ designated reference books, with a single concept scattered across chapters in many of them. Reading them all cover to cover just isn't realistic. LLMs are great at long context, but you can't dump hundreds of books on one at once — so the real unlock is pairing good search and a database with teaching the AI my own note-making process, so it produces grounded, structured notes I only have to absorb. Left: one of the templates in templates/ . Right: a real note in my vault, written against it — every claim traceable, every section where I expect it. Which path are you on? Not everyone wants the whole pipeline, and the parts stack in one direction — each profile below is the one above it plus one more thing. Pick the smallest one that solves your problem; you can move up later without redoi","default_branch":null,"files":null,"tree":[],"storefront":"/r/drpwchen","claimed":false,"request_supported":{"post":"https://gitbuyer.com/r/drpwchen/textbook-to-note/request-supported","requests":0},"note":"indexed from public GitHub; nothing is for sale on this page. Clone it from GitHub. Paid listings live at /search."}