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I did a big deep dive into this when I was implementing offline caching of web pages and annotations in Polar. The issues I had were mostly to do with converti

I did a big deep dive into this when I was implementing offline caching of web pages and annotations in Polar. The issues I had were mostly to do with converting to pagination and I decided that in practice it just wasn't worth it. The problem is that pagination on web pages just doesn't work. People have figures and so forth that need new page breaks to properly work. CSS has extensions for this but the problem is that no one uses them because they're not intending their pages to be printed or paginated. I have more work on this if you're interested: https://getpolarized.io/2019/10/06/Whats-Next-For-Web-Capture.html https://getpolarized.io/2019/10/06/Whats-Next-For-Web-Captur... https://getpolarized.io/2019/05/11/portable-web-documents.html https://getpolarized.io/2019/05/11/portable-web-documents.ht... ... I've decided to just migrate all this work for EPUB for various reasons but I'm also going to migrate to one continuous 'page' due to the CSS pagination issues I mentioned above.

codetrotter 7y ago
Holy Moly, this Polar thing looks amazing! And it’s open source too!! I was definitely not expecting that when I followed the link nor when I started reading about it. Document management, and saving web pages is a huge deal and something that I have been looking for a solution for but which until now I have not found anything that would quite fit, and most of the ones I have looked at and seriously considered would require too much integration work and customization to be usable. But Polar looks really really promising! I have avoided Electron based software until now for the same reasons you often find people echoing in the HN comments section when the topic comes up, but for Polar I would make an exception because it looks to be perfect for me so I am willing to sacrifice some of my precious RAM for Polar and am willing to accept a certain degree of UI and performance problems that I associate with Electron based apps. Since a web browser extension is in the works though, would you recommend that I wait until that is released or should I start using the Electron based app now and then migrate/switch?
- burtonator 7y ago
  > Holy Moly, this Polar thing looks amazing! And it’s open source too!! I was definitely not expecting that when I followed the link nor when I started reading about it. Thanks... 2.0 should come out next week too so it's going to be interesting to see how the community responds. Here's more on the release: https://www.reddit.com/r/PolarBookshelf/comments/du68gf/plans_for_polar_20_and_big_release_this_week/ https://www.reddit.com/r/PolarBookshelf/comments/du68gf/plan... The browser version is almost on par in terms of features with the desktop version. The main features that we're missing in the web version are offline support (which will be resolved soon), support for syncing with Anki, and web capture. We're working on porting web capture to completely run within the web extension though. I think the web version should be completely on par with the desktop/web version in the next month or so. Also, it's really not THAT much of a resource hit. On my machine it burns like 100MB or RAM and say 300MB of disk space.
  - geitir 7y ago
    I remember when WoW ran on 300 mb

codetrotter 7y ago

Holy Moly, this Polar thing looks amazing! And it’s open source too!! I was definitely not expecting that when I followed the link nor when I started reading about it. Document management, and saving web pages is a huge deal and something that I have been looking for a solution for but which until now I have not found anything that would quite fit, and most of the ones I have looked at and seriously considered would require too much integration work and customization to be usable. But Polar looks really really promising! I have avoided Electron based software until now for the same reasons you often find people echoing in the HN comments section when the topic comes up, but for Polar I would make an exception because it looks to be perfect for me so I am willing to sacrifice some of my precious RAM for Polar and am willing to accept a certain degree of UI and performance problems that I associate with Electron based apps. Since a web browser extension is in the works though, would you recommend that I wait until that is released or should I start using the Electron based app now and then migrate/switch?

burtonator 7y ago
> Holy Moly, this Polar thing looks amazing! And it’s open source too!! I was definitely not expecting that when I followed the link nor when I started reading about it. Thanks... 2.0 should come out next week too so it's going to be interesting to see how the community responds. Here's more on the release: https://www.reddit.com/r/PolarBookshelf/comments/du68gf/plans_for_polar_20_and_big_release_this_week/ https://www.reddit.com/r/PolarBookshelf/comments/du68gf/plan... The browser version is almost on par in terms of features with the desktop version. The main features that we're missing in the web version are offline support (which will be resolved soon), support for syncing with Anki, and web capture. We're working on porting web capture to completely run within the web extension though. I think the web version should be completely on par with the desktop/web version in the next month or so. Also, it's really not THAT much of a resource hit. On my machine it burns like 100MB or RAM and say 300MB of disk space.
- geitir 7y ago
  I remember when WoW ran on 300 mb