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This is great. I'm actually working on an app that's literally designed as the perfect incremental reading/learning platform: https://getpolarized.io/ https://
by burtonator 8y ago
This is great. I'm actually working on an app that's literally designed as the perfect incremental reading/learning platform:
https://getpolarized.io/ https://getpolarized.io/
Here's how it works. You basically add everything you're reading to Polar.
Right now it supports PDF and captured web pages. It works offline and your data is yours. It's a desktop app with a webapp+mobile coming soon (like 2 weeks).
Polar supports suspend and resume of reading with "pagemarks" which are basically "boxes" covering multiple pages with a start and end.
https://getpolarized.io/incremental-reading.html https://getpolarized.io/incremental-reading.html
This way it's very very clear what you've read and what you have not.
While you're reading you can annotate and take notes directly in Polar.
This includes comments, highlights, but also flashcards.
The flashcards can be sync'd with Anki which means you get spaced repetition built in so you NEVER forget anything.
Here's a screenshot of my current reading:
https://i.imgur.com/jdnuhVB.png https://i.imgur.com/jdnuhVB.png
The progress bar on the right is how far I've read within that document.
All your annotations and highlights are yours. We support markdown export and the on disk format is simple JSON.
It's also Open Source and we'll have a web and mobile version soon. Works on Linux, MacOS and Windows.
It also supports cloud sync so if you have multiple computers you can keep all your data in sync.
If you just want to avoid the cloud you can not use the cloud sync.
However, if you do, you can also use the web version which is coming out soon and which also means you can use it on a tablet device.
- burtonator 8y agoI also have larger long term plans for Polar. The idea is to build out a collaborative learning platform. However, first I have to attract and audience together that is large enough that could benefit from collaboration. So one step at a time.
- IOT_Apprentice 8y agolooking forward to epub support as well.
- nexus2045 8y agoEspecially given how much the icon reminds me of Calibre :D.
- burtonator 8y agoWorking on it... need to build out a new reader though.
- zacurry 8y agoGreat idea. Is there any way to pull in kindle data? Currently I read all my books and articles in kindle. I think I'll use polarized to read and organize the articles I read and use kindle to read the novels. If I could see the total usage statistics in polarized that would be awesome.
- burtonator 8y agoThe problem is the DRM .. you would have to use some thing like Calibre to port them to Polar. It's legal to do this for compatibility purposes but IANAL.
- whoisnnamdi 8y agoHow would you compare and contrast using Polarized vs Evernote for the same tasks?
- burtonator 8y agoEvernote is better for notes. Polar is better for creating notes from what you're reading. I'm working on making Polar better for just plain notes. Getting there.
- zeepthee 8y agoInteresting, how about sharing annotations? I imagine that using a sorting algorithm like reddits comments could work very interesting on popular texts.
- burtonator 8y agoyeah.. it's on the TODO.. porting it to the web now specifically for this use case.
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