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Read anything.
Keep everything.

Pagedge is a PDF reader with a memory. Highlight in four colors, take notes as you go, and let an AI that actually knows what you've read turn it all into lasting knowledge.

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The highlight system

Four colors. Four types of thinking.

Most readers treat every highlight the same — and that's why highlights get forgotten. In Pagedge, each color carries intent, and the whole app is built around it.

Yellow

Important · Key concepts

Mark the ideas that matter. Then ask the AI to summarize everything you found important — in one chapter, or across the whole document.

Blue

Confused · Revisit

Flag what you don't understand yet. Come back to it later, or ask the AI to explain every passage you found confusing — in plain language.

Green

Add to flashcards

Turn any highlight into a spaced-repetition flashcard, auto-generated by AI and reviewable right inside the app. Reading becomes retention.

Pink

Quotes worth keeping

Save the lines worth remembering. Compile every quote you've collected — from one book or your entire library — in a single click.

Beyond the page

Built for how you actually read.

Not just a viewer — a system that compounds. Everything you highlight and note becomes something Pagedge can search, explain, and quiz you on.

01

Chat with a PDF that knows what you care about.

Ask anything about a document and get answers with page citations. Pagedge feeds your highlights to the AI as context — so it doesn't just know what's in the document, it knows what mattered to you.

What did I highlight as confusing in chapter 3?
You flagged two passages on page 41 about entropy, and one on page 44 about the second law. Want me to explain them together?
p. 41 · p. 44
02

Find the passage you half-remember.

Semantic search works across everything you've ever highlighted and noted — by meaning, not keywords. That idea from three PDFs ago is always one vague description away.

"…each additional unit of input yields a smaller increase in output…"Econ 101 Notes · p. 12
"…marginal utility decreases as consumption increases…"Microeconomics.pdf · p. 58
03

Highlights that quiz you back.

Green highlights become spaced-repetition flashcards, written by AI from the exact passage you marked. Review them inside Pagedge — no exporting to another app, no writing cards by hand.

What does System 1 optimize for?
Coherence of the story it can construct — not the quality or quantity of the evidence.
Again Hard Good — 3 days
04

Your annotations, in a real PDF.

Every highlight, drawing, and text box baked into a standard PDF file you can share with anyone — it opens perfectly in any viewer, no Pagedge required.

Exported — annotated.pdf

Jumping to conclusions is efficient if the conclusions are likely to be correct. System 1 is radically insensitive to the quality and quantity of information. When information is scarce, it operates as a machine for jumping to conclusions — and poor evidence can make a very good story.

"You don't remember what you read. You remember what you did with what you read."
— The idea behind Pagedge
Pricing

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