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Hjugo on Sept 1, 2018 | parent | context | favorite | on: Ask HN: How to organize personal knowledge?

Someone knows a good software to search a large amount of text pdfs locally? Something like mendeley & zotero?

jorijori on Sept 1, 2018 | [–]

For MacOS, foxtrot pro is fantastic: http://www.ctmdev.com/foxtrot/

It gives you just enough context preview around your search term to judge if the PDF is useful or not. Currently using with 10k+ research papers and very happy with it.

dheral on Sept 1, 2018 | [–]

I personally am a long time fan and user of leap (ironic software) and yep!

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