Thanks to everyone on F-Droid and GitHub for the support and kind words, it really means a lot! I’m happy to share that Aftergleam is now on Google Play too.
Researchers need to keep up with the hundreds of new papers posted every day on arXiv and other preprint servers. Aftergleam learns your interests locally on your phone, so your data never leaves your device, and shows you papers that matter.
It covers computer science, engineering, biology, medicine, chemistry, law and more. You can also set keywords to get notified about the exact topics you follow, and read papers offline as PDF or in Reader mode.
Google Play: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=si.jakobkreft.aftergleam
Website: https://aftergleam.app/
It’s open source: https://github.com/jakobkreft/Aftergleam
I hope you enjoy and find it useful as much as I do.
oh yes that works, but I would recommend instead to use the search to find specific papers and upvote them to tune the classifier faster. Another way is to import a list of papers from your related work in .bib or .ris file. I will increase the keyword limit, can easily be more, i just didn’t think it was needed. Thanks a lot! And for the feedback!
https://github.com/jakobkreft/Aftergleam/issues/3
I can see that the crux of my problems drilling down on environmental topics may be made more difficult by some missing sources as illustrated in this issue. I’m still training away and getting some good hits so it’s working regardless.
Your app has a lot of potential. I’m going to use it as a positive/factual news source for a while.
Examples that are interesting to me by selecting 2 initial biology and ecology topics and then adding keywords (“soil” and “biochar”):
Coarse Woody Debris of Mixed Tree Species Overrides Soil Matrix Constraints on Microbial Richness and Abundance in an Ancient Broad-Leaved Forest https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.10.09.757649
Found with Aftergleam, a privacy reader for arXiv scientific papers.
Synergistic effects of biochar and vegetation on microplastic and nanoplastic removal from stormwater runoff in bioretention systems https://doi.org/10.26434/chemrxiv.15010823/v1
Found with Aftergleam, a privacy reader for arXiv scientific papers.
Like I said, I’m not a scientist so I’m using keywords to hit terms that are relevant to me like “tree”, “species”, “biochar”, “plant”, “soil” etc. Then I deleted some after training and added “Australia” “forest” to train more relevant to my location to see what would happen. Then I might add my climate type later to drill further down.
So I can’t really search to find specific papers as I don’t technically know what I’m looking for. I’m extrapolating papers that might be relevant to my environmental line of work. Edit: Searched some individual keywords and I understand what you mean, it’s just time to select the papers that are relevant in that particular keyword. I’ll give that a try for a while and keep my keywords to broaden the feed.
If you were going to develop the app further, it could become quite a nice mixed feed reader for specific topics of interest, maybe with a sharing intent for social media too. I could imagine a News tab separate to For You and Explore that picked up scientific news releases based on keywords as well coming from the main journalistic sites like phys.org, theconversation, mongabay etc.
Thanks for your help.
Thanks, really useful feedback! I’ll look into the missing sources from that issue. It could well be a problem for environmental science and ecology too, since I’m not too familiar with those fields. If you know or find any preprint servers people in your line of work use, feel free to add them to the issue, that would help me a lot. A News tab is an interesting idea, I’ll think about it. I do want to keep it lean and focused on papers, so it would only make sense if it fits without making the app heavier or less private. I also really like how you’re using it. Starting with broader keywords and then narrowing down is something I didn’t think of, but I’m happy you tried it and made it work!
Definitely not my line of work. I’m on the tools - https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/2501:_Average_Familiarity
The person that wrote the github issue seemed like they were somewhat aware of sources. Perhaps you could address the comment regarding best place to contact? A dedicated Lemmy community perhaps, spread the fediverse love?
I understand your hyperfocus for the app, because I assume most researchers or PhD candidates are also hyperfocused. I figured that news releases regarding the field of research is also relevant in some way, finger on the pulse sort of thing. Probably not as easy as grabbing the papers as you currently are.