# chenxiachan/paperfold

> PaperFold is a local-first paper reader that folds any text into five zoom levels, from the full text to AI-generated one-line takeaways. It helps researchers hold an article's argument in mind while reading.

- Magnitude: 2.1 out of 10 — Early signal
- Stars: 74 total · +2 stars measured 2026-10-07, 00:20–03:50 UTC, ≈ 13 by evening
- Star trust: star growth looks organic
- Category: Language models · Language: Python · License: Apache-2.0 · Created: 2026-10-04 · Last push: 2026-10-06
- GitHub: https://github.com/chenxiachan/paperfold · Homepage: https://chenxiachan.github.io/paperfold-gallery/ · Page: https://gitnova.dev/en/r/chenxiachan/paperfold

## Useful for

- Read an arXiv paper at the Key level to skim its argument before a deep read
- Ask a question about a passage and jump to the paragraphs the answer cites
- Export a paper with its levels and translations as a self-contained HTML file

## Why it’s here

- Star-counter measurements on 2026-10-07 (UTC), 00:20–03:50: 72 → 74 stars (+2). This is the change over that interval.
- Estimated end-of-day forecast: about +13 stars, using observed gains and the previous day.
- The repository is 3 days old and already has 74 stars. With less than two weeks of history, there's no usual pace to compare the spike against yet.
- Top new repositories this week: #158.

## Star trust

Star growth looks organic.

Star-trust labels are heuristics based on the repository’s behavior, not a check of every stargazer.

## Numbers

- Forks: 4
- Issues and pull requests: 0
- Watchers: 0
- Average over the last week: 22 per day
- Usual pace: too little history (under two weeks)
- Stars in the last hour (measured): 0

## Stars per day, last 4 days (oldest → newest, today is partial)

2026-10-04 … 2026-10-07: 20, 41, 13, 2

## Spotted in now

- Top new repositories this week: #158

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Magnitude (0–10) measures how fast and how unusually interest in a repository is growing right now. It is not a quality score.
Days are UTC. “So far today” is a fact; “expected by the end of the day” is a forecast.
Summaries and use cases are written by an LLM (DeepSeek V4.1 Flash) from the README and may be inaccurate: verify specific claims (benchmarks, speed, hardware) in the repository itself.
Data as of 2026-10-07 03:58 UTC, updated every 30 minutes.