Earmark / Gosha (گوشہ) — listen to what you read

Reading time and commute time don't overlap

Long articles worth reading pile up faster than there's ever a quiet hour to sit and read them — but there's a commute, a walk, or a drive most days where the eyes are busy but the ears aren't. Text-to-speech apps exist, but none of them treat the notes you'd take while listening — a thought, a reference to follow up on, a disagreement with the author — as first-class, timestamped, and searchable alongside the article itself.

The name is a small joke worth keeping: Gosha (گوشہ) is Urdu for a quiet corner, with gosh ("ear") hidden inside — the same pun as the project's original codename, Earmark.

Save it, listen to it, note it, find it again

Drop in a URL, PDF, or DOCX; Earmark parses it into a clean, sentence-segmented reading view and reads it aloud via on-device text-to-speech. Tap or speak a note at any point and it's saved with an exact timestamp into the article. Later, search runs across articles and notes together — and every article remembers exactly which sentence you were on, even across a refresh, a browser restart, or a dead phone.

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Under the hood

Where it stands

Live and in daily personal use, currently mid-rebrand from "Earmark" to "Gosha" (the internal identifiers — repo folder, database name, cookie prefix — deliberately keep the old codename so nothing breaks).