Paper Rooms

The problem

I have a daily automation that pulls new AI, machine learning, and wildcard research papers into a digest. After months of reading that email, squinting at PDFs, and losing links in Safari history, I got tired of the mess.

What I built

Paper Rooms pulls research papers in from a link, reformats them into something readable, and organizes them into a library inspired by the way real libraries catalog books.

It was built for one very specific purpose: reading research papers without losing them, hating the PDF, or turning a good rabbit hole into browser archaeology.

It is also free, with no ads.

Proof

Live on the App Store for iPhone, iPad, and Mac. Built and shipped solo in under a week.

What I learned

The tools I keep returning to are usually the ones that solve a small annoyance I hit every day.

Local-first product design: on-device storage, no accounts, real typography, shipped.