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Evening Reader

Read later, on an amber panel.

Save articles, books and PDFs, then read them offline on a warm amber page you tune with three sliders: warmth, brightness and contrast. Built for winding down.

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An article in Evening Reader, with a diagram drawn as ink on the page

See it in use

Demo video: save an article, read it, slide into night modeassets/media/evening-reader/demo.mp4
The front page: what you were reading and what just arrived
An article with a figure drawn as ink
Display settings: warmth, brightness and contrast
A highlight with a note
A book on a beige page
The built-in browser, in amber
The same reader at night

The details

Close-up loop, 4–8 sassets/media/evening-reader/closeup-1.mp4

Three sliders

Warmth, brightness and contrast, plus paper and night modes.

Close-up loop, 4–8 sassets/media/evening-reader/closeup-2.mp4

Night mode

Amber ink on near-black, for the last page before sleep.

Close-up loop, 4–8 sassets/media/evening-reader/closeup-3.mp4

Highlights and notes

Mark a passage, add a note, look up a word.

How it came together Draft

The itch

[What wasn’t working, in two or three sentences. The moment you decided to build your own.]

First sketch

[The first working version, and what it taught you.]

Process image: a sketch or an early buildassets/media/evening-reader/process-1.webp

The detail I obsessed over

[The one thing you kept polishing, and why it matters.]

Process image: before and afterassets/media/evening-reader/process-2.webp

Working with AI

[What you asked for, what it got wrong, what you kept. Quote a prompt or two.]

Shipped

[What made the cut, and what you left out on purpose.]