I use this all the time. It's a nice app. Although some of the features such as jumping to citations are available in Google Scholar extension for Chrome. I just love the idea of vimifying my apps. Before Sioyek, I used Karabiner to set j/k/etc. in macOS Preview so I could navigate using vim keys, but that was a tedious process and didn't have many features that Sioyek offers. Also, I use a solarized background color for PDFs to avoid eye strain, and the app supports night mode even for the graphs in PDFs!
Some gripes with this app:
- There's an extension that lets you view PDFs in two columns (panels) side by side. But that literally changes the actual PDF files!
- Plugins are generally challenging to install. I found a workaround and reported it, but IDK if the author took that feedback to improve the app.
- To my knowledge, the app stores its configs in the Applications directory of the app. It'd be nicer to have them in ~/.config.
- The feature to quickly open files in a directory doesn't work for cloud drives (including iCloud).
> - There's an extension that lets you view PDFs in two columns (panels) side by side. But that literally changes the actual PDF files!
We have added native two-panel mode in development branch.
> - Plugins are generally challenging to install. I found a workaround and reported it, but IDK if the author took that feedback to improve the app.
In the development branch we have added support for native javascript extensions (with no external dependencies because we use Qt's internal js engine) which should be a lot easier to work with
> - To my knowledge, the app stores its configs in the Applications directory of the app. It'd be nicer to have them in ~/.config.
Also I think in the development branch you can use ~/.config, I am not 100% sure though.
Some gripes with this app:
- There's an extension that lets you view PDFs in two columns (panels) side by side. But that literally changes the actual PDF files!
- Plugins are generally challenging to install. I found a workaround and reported it, but IDK if the author took that feedback to improve the app.
- To my knowledge, the app stores its configs in the Applications directory of the app. It'd be nicer to have them in ~/.config.
- The feature to quickly open files in a directory doesn't work for cloud drives (including iCloud).