A MilkDesk desk during a journal club: the participant roster with a presenting guest, three pages pulled out of a paper, sticky notes, a diagram, and two live cursors

MilkDesk

A shared research desk.

Pull PDFs apart into pages, compare and annotate together, and see where everyone is looking.

Open a desk

Sign in with a magic link · guests join with just the link

A single page pulled out of paper.pdf, with a live highlight across a sentence and its page badge

Paper, not screenshots

A page you pull out of a PDF stays a reference to its document — never a bitmap. Text stays selectable, highlights anchor to the source passage, and every copy of the page shows the same marks. Delete a page and undo it: it returns to its document, membership and all.

Originals live once in private storage; pages are references.

See where everyone is looking

Cursors, selections and even the passage someone has selected are visible to the whole desk, in each person's colour. Click an avatar to see exactly what they see; any participant can take control, and a projector follows whoever presents.

Accounts and guests share one desk — a guest needs only the link and a name.

A page at reading zoom with Ada's live text selection and name chip visible on the passage she has selected
A pending suggestion card: Ben proposes moving items, with Accept and Reject buttons The proposed move drawn over the desk as a dashed ghost beside the sticky note it would move

Change it — or propose it

Flip one switch and your edits become a proposal instead: drawn over the desk as a dashed preview, applied only when the group accepts it, whole or not at all. Every change lands in an append-only history you can scrub, preview and restore — nothing is ever deleted.

Undo, suggestions and rewind share the same operation log.

Your journal club deserves a better table.

Open a desk
MilkDesk a persistent, multiplayer research desk