Practical guide
Search private PDFs on an ordinary laptop
Start with text extraction and full-text search; add OCR or embeddings only when the collection needs them.
Small tools. Useful work.
Find something
you can use.
A few minutes of pronunciation practice. A book with room for another language. A tool that makes the next bit of work easier. Explore what we’re building at LazyingArt.
A useful place to start
Working through a specific problem? These guides share the checks, trade-offs, and code behind the projects.
Practical guide
Stop Chinese text becoming one giant RAG chunk
Check whitespace assumptions, bound chunk length, and keep each passage tied to its original source offsets.
Practical guide
Keep one study fact and all its sources
Deduplicate cards across textbook chapters and lecture transcripts without losing the evidence or review history.
Practical guide
Diagnose GitHub MCP authentication in Docker
Separate sandbox secrets, CLI login state, and MCP configuration before changing credentials.
Practical guide
Fix a LaTeX redline that will not compile
Treat the redline as its own build: preserve both baselines, reproduce the toolchain, and inspect the first failure.
Practical guide
Reproduce research code on a new workstation
Pin a revision, check one input and output contract, and keep enough evidence to explain what worked or failed.
Learn a little, every day
Short practice sessions, readable books, and source-linked study material.
Free web app
L & N speech practice
Practice the L/N contrast in English, Mandarin, and Cantonese: listen to word pairs, record a word, and inspect the feedback.
Messaging app
EchoMind
Explore multilingual messaging and AI-assisted language tools. Personal conversations and account features require sign-in.
Multilingual books
LinguaLeaf
Read Chinese classics and history with multilingual annotations. Browse the available editions and their source notes.
Learning library
LazyLearn
A growing collection of books, notes, and learning paths for unrushed study.
Community study resource
Leonard Susskind study archive
Find transcripts, subtitles, notes, TeX, and PDFs to revisit The Theoretical Minimum lectures.
Reading guides
LazyTravel · Hakone
Read a multilingual Hakone guide with aligned Chinese, Japanese, and English material.
Reading guides
LazyTravel · Xi’an
Explore Xi’an through a multilingual guide and its companion pocket-book project.
Reading guides
LazyTravel · Lanzhou
Read a multilingual Lanzhou guide with its companion pocket-book edition.
Open-source desktop tool
Kindle Book Sender
Explore a document-transfer workflow for compatible KOReader Kindles. Check device and firmware requirements before installation.
Books and research
LazyEarn
Study money, markets, and entrepreneurship through books and source-linked notes—not earnings forecasts.
Book and reader
HowYouGotRich
Read and compare accounts of business, work, and wealth creation. Examples are material to study, not a promised outcome.
Build with tools you can inspect
Local knowledge, research workflows, agents, and practical automation.
Fixed-scope service
Local Knowledge Terminal
Find out whether a document collection is ready for local search, multilingual knowledge cards, citations, and provenance.
Open-source agent tools
AgInTiFlow
Inspect plans, tool calls, and resumable work from a terminal-first agent workflow.
Open-source workflow tools
AAPS
Explore structured, inspectable programs and workflows for agent-assisted work.
Open-source remote access
LazyRemote
Learn how the LazyTunnel project connects computers and services through a controlled relay.
Research tools
PaperAgent
Explore reproducible manuscript builds, revision workflows, and source-linked research work.
Workflow documentation
Paper revision skill
Plan and track manuscript revisions, response letters, and reproducible document builds.
Open-source skill library
LazySkills
Browse reusable agent workflows with instructions and supporting tools.
Configuration guide
Astrill lazy policies
Inspect a documented policy configuration workflow and its source before using it.
Fixed-scope service
MCP boundary review
Review one pinned MCP server's authority and data boundaries. Start with the executed sample before a fit check.
Make and explore
Music, video, writing, and small objects made with care.
Music and media library
Fun Lazying Art / Musia
Explore songs with lyrics, timing, and music-practice views.
Creative tools overview
LazyEdit
Explore transcription, subtitle, editing, and media-publication workflows.
Selected portfolio
Video work
Watch selected video work and explore the tools used to assemble it.
Creative project
LalaMedias
Explore the public media project and its source.
Product catalogue
LazyingArt handmade collection
Browse handmade objects and notebooks. Check the current options and delivery terms on the product page.
Technical writing
LazyingArt blog
Practical build stories and guides across language, code, research, and creative tools.
Watch, read, and play
Public game previews and a quieter way to study a position.
Read-only visitor mode
LazyingArt Games
Watch the public Weiqi replay without signing in. Interactive learning and the wider game catalogue require an account.
Game project
ShiGame
Explore the public game project and its source.
Research and prototypes
Technical notebooks and experiments. Hardware projects are not a promise of stock or delivery.
Research notebook
IDEAS research notebook
Browse ideas and linked research in imaging, photonics, simulation, and related fields.
Imaging research
OpenHI
Explore an event-based hyperspectral imaging project and its reproducible research code. Hardware availability is separate.
Hardware/software prototype
IdeasGlass
Explore a wearable capture project, its firmware, and software design. This is a technical project overview.
Hardware/software prototype
IdeasRobot
Explore microphone-array sensing, waveform views, and a web-console design. Hardware and deployment are project-specific.
Research project
AgInTi
Explore the public agent and robotics project and its source.
Project overview
LazyingArtBot LAB
Read about local-first assistant and research orchestration tools. The directory links the overview, not an operator console.
Research workflow
LifeReverseEngineering
Explore a source-linked workflow for reading plans and research directions.
Around LazyingArt
The studio, the person behind it, and longer-form notes.
Studio
LazyingArt
The home of LazyingArt's apps, books, tools, and bounded services.
Personal site
Lachlan Chen
Meet the builder and browse public projects and publications.
Essays and tools
The Art of Lazying
Notes and practical tools for reducing friction in everyday creative and technical work.