winget install --id WangQrkkk.PaperQuayAbout PaperQuay
PaperQuay is more than a PDF reader or a Zotero add-on. It is a local-first desktop literature manager designed for students, researchers, and paper writers who want to manage papers, read PDFs, annotate, translate, screen papers quickly, and use AI agents without leaving the same workspace. Many paper tools force the user to choose between fragmented workflows: one app for PDF reading, another tool for translation, another chat window for paper summaries, and another library manager for metadata. PaperQuay combine...
What's new in 0.1.23
- Optimized macOS titlebar behavior: the app now uses the native traffic-light controls and removes duplicate custom window buttons on macOS. - Improved PDF.js lifecycle cleanup to reduce stale worker/render-task errors when opening, switching, or closing PDFs. - Improved Agent RAG answers with clickable citation tags that jump back to the referenced paper block or page. - Added and clarified the RAG Top-K setting for controlling how many nearest context blocks are sent to the model. - Refined selection and paragraph translation popovers, including independent Settings switches and safer positioning around selected text. - Improved side-panel chat input behavior, multi-session QA handling, and Agent interaction polish.
Version history
| Version | Updated | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| 0.1.23 | Unknown | - Optimized macOS titlebar behavior: the app now uses the native traffic-light controls and removes duplicate custom window buttons on macOS. - Improved PDF.js lifecycle cleanup to reduce stale worker/render-task errors... |
| 0.1.22 | Unknown | Release notes |
| 0.1.21 | Unknown | - Added PDF block click context, including click position and rendered block bounds, so paragraph translation popovers can be placed accurately. - Reused selected-excerpt translation state for cached paragraph translatio... |
| 0.1.6 | Unknown | - Added manual WebDAV remote backup and additive restore, with local SQLite online backup staging, atomic remote object upload, latest-backup inspection, and settings UI integration. - Improved restore behavior so missin... |
| 0.1.5 | Unknown | - Added local RAG indexing and retrieval with persistent sqlite-vec storage, configurable embedding settings, and backend-only embedding requests. - Improved document Q&A citation handling so inline references such as [1... |