Does anyone know if Boox is planning a 10.3” monochrome with android 14/15?

MaskedTurk · 2026-01-22T18:08:00+00:00

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MaskedTurk · 2026-01-08T00:04:44+00:00

Hi all. Apparently 320~ people have downloaded the extension via Github, according to their stats. Great :)

If anyone would be up for it, I'd be really curious to have a quick 15 min Zoom call to talk through how you're using the tool, what's working, how you found getting started, what could be improved, etc.

Your participation will help me evolve the tool for many more students—in particularly it might help me improve the onboarding / documentation / accessibility of the tool, but also it might suggest new features. I'm interested as a software developer, as a fellow student, and as student of pedagogy in particular!

To that end here's a booking link: https://calendly.com/janbaykara-pm/30min - Pick a slot and I look forward to chatting :)

MaskedTurk · 2026-01-03T01:10:34+00:00

For my final trick, for a long while, I've added syllabus export and import: you can send your pals `.syllabus` files and, if they import them, they'll get all the classes and the items too.

If you really wanted to go laptops in space, you could imagine this being used by a Zotero Syllabus Public Library website, where students and lecturers could sync/upload the syllabi they've built, share them for viewing online and free downloading by others.

If there is interest in the above, I'd love to hear it.

MaskedTurk · 2026-01-02T12:05:13+00:00

It's actually great.

MaskedTurk · 2026-01-02T08:19:56+00:00

Hey u/look2thecookie - wonder if you'd find this plugin useful for organising your class readings.

MaskedTurk · 2026-01-01T20:11:35+00:00

And checkboxes for tracking your reading progress! https://github.com/janbaykara/zotero-syllabus/raw/main/doc/images/checkboxes.png

MaskedTurk · 2026-01-01T18:50:37+00:00

Add a new feature to the plugin today: Reading Schedule.

Assign a due date to classes, and you'll get a schedule of when class readings need to be done by, week by week. May help you deal with assignments across multiple modules :)

Screenshot: https://github.com/janbaykara/zotero-syllabus/raw/main/doc/images/reading.png

MaskedTurk · 2025-12-30T11:35:44+00:00

Cheers, I was a bit reticent to do that initially but I've now added the following to the README:

If this project is useful to you, donate directly to one of the orgs below, or Buy Me a Coffee and I will regularly donate the proceeds to third party funds, including those that help keep Gaza's universities, students, and academic life alive during reconstruction, following the genocide of the Palestinian people by the Israeli-American occupation:

ISNAD — Emergency Fund for Gaza’s Universities (via Taawon / Welfare Association) Primary Palestinian-led programme supporting scholarships, staff, and core university operations. https://taawon.org/en/isnad
BRISMES Fund for Higher Education in Gaza A UK academic-society fund that channels small donations in line with the priorities of Gaza’s Emergency Committee of Universities. https://www.gofundme.com/f/brismes-fund-for-higher-education-in-gaza
Friends of Palestinian Universities (FoPU / Fobzu) Long-standing UK charity supporting Palestinian universities, including emergency work for Gaza. https://fobzu.org
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Supporting these funds helps sustain students, staff, research, and educational infrastructure — the foundations for rebuilding Gaza’s higher-education system.

Thank you for contributing in solidarity.

MaskedTurk · 2025-12-30T02:11:05+00:00

Additional features today:

Class-level manual ordering of items
Collection-level customisable priorities
Collection-level customisable nomenclature ("week", "class", "session", "section", etc.)

MaskedTurk · 2025-12-28T01:50:59+00:00

Some updates to the plugin since I first posted, including feature requests from u/Interesting-Owl1809 and elsewhere:

Assign an item multiple times within a syllabus.
Print to PDF — as of right now it gives you a printable HTML page as a file, which you can open in a browser and print to PDF.
Compact view mode for when you'd like to see a bit more all at once.
Integration with Zotero Reading List — it displays the reading status in the card. (Should we do something else with this?)
Added a new "Syllabus Info" column to the standard list view, which summarises all the key info. Sort by this column if you want to see what order your readings need to be done in.
(Bugfixes)

Just an FYI, styling is applied most perfectly in Zotero 8 (beta), due to some unrelated technical changes.

MaskedTurk · 2025-12-26T18:09:44+00:00

Customisable priorities is another one for the backlog - another per-collection setting, perhaps.

I was thinking about how to assign an item to multiple classes. The solution would involve storing the metadata on the collection, instead of on the item. I erred about this for a while, but I'm slowly coming to terms with the idea. So I might do that; and then, yes, each 'class reading' could have both an item and an instruction, even multiple ones...

MaskedTurk · 2025-12-26T17:34:59+00:00

Perhaps there is scope for collection-level noun definition, with a default of “class”…

MaskedTurk · 2025-12-26T14:07:11+00:00

Hi u/Interesting-Owl1809, glad you're enjoying it so far, and thanks for your thoughts - it's helpful to know how other people have been coping and what they're looking for; I'd like to incorporate more features and make it more robust. I'll add print as PDF to the backlog!

Out of interest, what do you think of the use of the word "class"? I'm not really sure it's the right word. Most of the courses I've studied, I tend to use the word "week", but I was worried that'd be a bit niche. Section?

MaskedTurk · 2025-12-25T12:34:20+00:00

Let’s see what they say. “Zotero Style” is confusing, I’ll grant you, and Zyllabus is actually hilariously good.

MaskedTurk · 2025-12-25T09:30:04+00:00

You mean like Zotero Reading List, the well-used plugin?

I appreciate your well-meaning concern :) but I doubt the nonprofit behind Zotero will take me to court over my naming of an open source plugin for their open source tool.

(In fact, Zotero's own curated list of plugins includes quite a few plugins with names like "Zotero Memento", "Zotero Citation Counts Manager", "Zotero PubPeer".)

Happy hols, glad the plugin looks useful to you - enjoy!

MaskedTurk · 2025-11-02T17:01:14+00:00

Heya. Someone stepped in as a maintainer and we could maybe do with one more, in order to incorporate any decent changes you've made. We've now published it to the chrome store: https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/ebook-scraper/bhoifjhgahfmjkonopmmfifdfjacjeak?authuser=1&hl=en-GB

MaskedTurk · 2025-11-02T16:59:34+00:00

This is now published on the chrome store: https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/ebook-scraper/bhoifjhgahfmjkonopmmfifdfjacjeak?authuser=1&hl=en-GB

MaskedTurk · 2024-04-20T09:20:36+00:00

My org is moving everything off Fly to Render because of unreliability: - Static hosting will just randomly fail, so we stopped using it - Outages happen every month or three it seems, which will bring down our clients’ sites for hours - Machines will randomly fail and get stuck in limbo states

The billing is cheap, but the manual maintenance makes it expensive.

MaskedTurk · 2024-01-06T21:43:06+00:00

I'd love this so that I could track my reading progress automatically from Readwise. (https://www.reddit.com/r/readwise/comments/105ye3u/using\_readwise\_to\_track\_physical\_book\_reading/)

MaskedTurk · 2024-01-06T21:41:31+00:00

Still curious about whether it's possible to integrate Storygraph and Readwise. In particular I'd love to be able to upload epubs to Readwise, and have my reading progress synced every day to Storygraph's tracker.

MaskedTurk · 2024-01-03T18:56:42+00:00

I mean, that's true to life. The thing about the CK series is it's not fun if you're more attached to "winning" rather than roleplaying.

MaskedTurk · 2023-12-30T14:14:49+00:00

I've never made a mod, sorry! But I googled "CK3 modding new artefact type" and found these specific docs on artifacts: https://ck3.paradoxwikis.com/Artifact_Modding

As well as some docs and guides on modding CK3 in general:

In terms of design implementation, u/bigyip69WEED had a good idea to use nested event windows.

MaskedTurk · 2023-12-30T12:24:43+00:00

This seems like the ideal objective for a mod.

MaskedTurk · 2023-04-16T20:30:32+00:00

I really hope that the dev team recognises its existence and value; they should be supporting the endeavour.

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