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Hi c/programming,

for quite some time I have been working on the open-source project PdfDing - a selfhosted PDF manager, viewer and editor offering a seamless user experience on multiple devices. You can find the repository here. As always I would be quite happy about a star and you trying out the application.

Last week PdfDing was selected to receive a grant from the NGI Zero Commons Fund. This fund is dedicated to helping deliver, mature and scale new internet commons across the whole technology spectrum and is amongst others funded by the European Commission. The exact sum of the grant still needs to be discussed, but obviously I am very stocked to have been selected and need to share it with the community.

PdfDing's features include:

  • Seamless browser based PDF viewing on multiple devices. Remembers current position - continue where you stopped reading
  • Stay on top of your PDF collection with multi-level tagging, starring and archiving functionalities
  • Edit PDFs by adding comments, highlighting and drawings
  • Manage and export PDF highlights and comments in dedicated sections
  • Clean, intuitive UI with dark mode, inverted color mode, custom theme colors and multiple layouts
  • SSO support via OIDC
  • Share PDFs with an external audience via a link or a QR Code with optional access control
  • Markdown Notes
  • Progress bars show the reading progress of each PDF at a quick glance
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[–] Feddinat0r@feddit.org 18 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Congrats and as a german i frequently say "ding"

So, nice name!

[–] NoPanko@feddit.uk 8 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I watch a german streamer a lot who says “dingsbooms” to mean “a thing i cant remember the name of right now”. It always makes me laugh

[–] drre@feddit.org 8 points 2 months ago

there is also "dingensbummens", a thingy, or whatchamacallit

[–] calliope@retrolemmy.com 4 points 2 months ago

There’s a self-hosted bookmark manager named linkding, and that’s how I found out “ding” means “thing” in German.

[–] mrmn2@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

The naming and at the beginning the design as well were heavily inspired by the below mentioned linkding. The name is quite easy to remember and unique which is good for search results.