This started unintentionally. My Oman trip got cancelled, I got sick, and ended up at home for the weekend. I was already using Cursor to work on my startup when I decided to read a machine learning paper and immediately caught myself fidgeting, wanting to ask questions as I read. That is when it clicked. Reading is still a passive experience. PDFs do not let you think out loud, ask why, or build understanding as you go. So I put together something for myself. A way to highlight text, ask questions as you go through the document, and turn a paper into an interactive conversation instead of a static PDF. I called it Parho. Parho means read in Urdu, and it felt like the right name for something meant to make reading more active. Built it because I wanted it. Sharing it now to see if others feel the same. Would love to hear how you read papers, docs, or PDFs and where the experience breaks for you.

Parho

Cursor for Reading

Cursor for Reading