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w annotations and tagging

12 points by burtonator 8y ago

burtonator 8y ago
This is a big release for us. You guys really liked our first release: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18219960 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18219960 ... It's been really exciting seeing everyone dive in and suggest features and bug fixes. This release has a TON of fit and finish (bug fixes) but we're also announcing cloud sync with this version as well. Cloud sync enables you to keep your document repository and annotations consistent across all your computers (MacOS, Windows, and Linux). It's also real-time. If you make a change (add a tag, comment, highlight, pagemark) it's immediately reflected across all your other devices. We also released a chrome extension as part of this release: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/save-to-polar/jkfdkjomocoaljglgddnmhcbolldcafd/ https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/save-to-polar/jkfd... which allows you to save directly to Polar. ... We have a bunch of ideas for future features for Polar but we're mostly community driven so I'm waiting to hear back from our user base now that this is out the door. Some ideas on the road map include: - Document discovery based on publicly shared documents by other Polar users. - Mobile support - Firefox plugin support (not a ton of work and might already work) - Annotation browser so you can manage your annotations as first class objects like you can with documents. ... would LOVE to hear your thoughts here. Hacker News was very helpful in getting this out the door and I really appreciate it!
- Fudgel 8y ago
  Really looking forward to the Firefox extension being available, thanks.
gexla 8y ago
This is a great application and I feel it deserves more eyeballs. Early in the development process is the time to make suggestions which may influence the direction of the project. I have always thought it would be great to read articles in an application in which I could track progress, add annotations and make comments on those annotations. Some applications get close, but there isn't much out there for reading AFAIK. Most seem to not get much love. Thanks for the great work!
- burtonator 8y ago
  Thanks.. I agree... This is a tool that needs to exist which is why I was amazed and really really frustrated that it didn't. It's almost shocking really... But the community has given an amazing amount of productive feedback. Making great progress here!
Kaylaburt0n 8y ago
Dude finally! I've been waiting for an app that can store web pages offline.

12 points by burtonator 8y ago

This is a big release for us. You guys really liked our first release: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18219960 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18219960 ... It's been really exciting seeing everyone dive in and suggest features and bug fixes. This release has a TON of fit and finish (bug fixes) but we're also announcing cloud sync with this version as well. Cloud sync enables you to keep your document repository and annotations consistent across all your computers (MacOS, Windows, and Linux). It's also real-time. If you make a change (add a tag, comment, highlight, pagemark) it's immediately reflected across all your other devices. We also released a chrome extension as part of this release: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/save-to-polar/jkfdkjomocoaljglgddnmhcbolldcafd/ https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/save-to-polar/jkfd... which allows you to save directly to Polar. ... We have a bunch of ideas for future features for Polar but we're mostly community driven so I'm waiting to hear back from our user base now that this is out the door. Some ideas on the road map include: - Document discovery based on publicly shared documents by other Polar users. - Mobile support - Firefox plugin support (not a ton of work and might already work) - Annotation browser so you can manage your annotations as first class objects like you can with documents. ... would LOVE to hear your thoughts here. Hacker News was very helpful in getting this out the door and I really appreciate it!

Fudgel 8y ago
Really looking forward to the Firefox extension being available, thanks.

gexla 8y ago

This is a great application and I feel it deserves more eyeballs. Early in the development process is the time to make suggestions which may influence the direction of the project. I have always thought it would be great to read articles in an application in which I could track progress, add annotations and make comments on those annotations. Some applications get close, but there isn't much out there for reading AFAIK. Most seem to not get much love. Thanks for the great work!

burtonator 8y ago
Thanks.. I agree... This is a tool that needs to exist which is why I was amazed and really really frustrated that it didn't. It's almost shocking really... But the community has given an amazing amount of productive feedback. Making great progress here!

Kaylaburt0n 8y ago

Dude finally! I've been waiting for an app that can store web pages offline.