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Great stuff, I went down the rabbit hole of building something similar for synthesizing flash cards + Q/A pairs from textbook PDFs about a year ago, and I would also emphasize that PDF search is a janky nightmare to get within the ballpark of usability :')

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I feel your pain my brother(?) [0] in suffering. That's why I started simple in the notebook. Even trying to go a little more complex just leads to exponential rabbit holes and footguns.

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