March 2024—The Daylight Computer is a mix between a Kindle and iPad, which means you can read digital content as comfortably and indistractably as books.
But most people are still using their phone, social media, or other addicting technology at least some of the time.
For a reading tablet to be useful in everyday life, you need a quick way to send content to it. Otherwise you’ll just read stuff on your phone and fall back into the algorithm.
So I built a browser extension, desktop app, iOS & Android app, web portal, email integration, and Google Drive sync for them.
And a pipeline to transform articles into PDFs within a few seconds, building on the work from Unclutter.
The big plan for the future is to port the style transformations from Unclutter as well, so articles use the same fonts and styles, and don’t look as bland as in typical reader modes.
May 2025—Daylight launched publicly and got really really popular on Twitter and the news! There’s even a subreddit where people share tips (and find bugs in my software haha).
But most satisfying for me personally is how well it works together with Sublime.
September 2025—We continue to improve the content sharing pipeline bit by bit. With higher real usage there are more and more parsing edge cases to handle.
But I’m more and more of the opinion that the system needs a revolution, embracing web content instead of PDFs…
