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phil
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Welcome @tristan-daylight! Tristan is the head of marketing at Daylight Computer. Along with Drew, they'll be answering questions from /books readers over the next hour or so. Daylight is building a new device, designed for deep work Reply with your questions (please make sure to tag him)
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Zenigame
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Thanks for coming @tristan-daylight! When you were designing the the Daylight, what did the process of designing for reading books look like? Would love to hear about the kinds of tests you guys did, any interesting discoveries, inspiration, etc.
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Drew Winget
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On the technical side, we had a deadly strong desire to finally make PDFs usable on a tablet. Our screen goes up to 120hz for a reason, and no existing PDF renderer could adequately support fast and fluid zoom, pan, and inking without jank. So we wrote our own from scratch. Now it performa better than desktop software on a new M3 laptop.
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Drew Winget
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Pardon the broken threading. You'll have to let me know the etiquette. In any case, now that we had that renderer as a base, we knew we could address another technical annoyance with digital books: getting the books you want, where you want them. For this we developed a suite of "embassies," or portals: pieces of software that let you send things to your physical device. An underlying idea behind the reading experience on daylight is the creation of sacred space for deep work and the consequential reading we all want to do. So being able to consecrate a piece of writing you want to read by setting it aside there was important. It makes you treat "browsing" differently. Think Pocket or Instapaper, except the things you save go to your "serious" reading device, instead of your phone or laptop. So you can email, send from phone with 2 taps, and drag items from your desktop, and it all goes to your daylight library.
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