Hypatia – research tool for the Linux desktop

Hypatia is a research tool for the Linux desktop. It’s designed to provide at-a-glance information about the topics you’re reading, or about things you’re curious about. It lets you find definitions, explanations, and answers related to the text on your display without removing you from the context or making you navigate away.

For those familiar with the lookup feature in Apple operating systems, it works in a similar way, but is much more powerful, and can be triggered independently without having to force-touch on a single word.

At launch, there are three main action areas:

• Instant Answers (provided by DuckDuckGo).
• Dictionary and thesaurus (provided by Wiktionary, via the FreeDictionaryAPI).
• Wikipedia Entries.

Searching for any term or phrase will search those sources for information, and the app will present any relevant results that it finds.

This is free and open source software.

Website: codeberg.org/nathandyer/Hypatia
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Developer: Nathan Dyer
License: GNU General Public License v3.0

Hypatia is written in Vala. Learn Vala with our recommended free books and free tutorials.

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