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Hey, by quickstart do you mean for installing it locally? Or for using it on the website?

riidom 5y ago
I was about to ask the same thing, didn't realize until your answer, that it is web-based? A local offline application would be great! (also maybe.. is making an account necessary?) And one more question, can it also pull multi-page documentation, or just single URL's? I assume it downloads websites and makes them offline available, or is that a wrong assumption.
- roznoshchik 5y ago
  It is web based. That way you can read on the computer and continue reading on the phone or any other device. A version that runs just locally on the computer would also work, but that wasn't the main focus of this particular iteration. I haven't built a robust offline functionality yet. That's something I'm thinking of doing in the near future. Was thinking of having your X most recent articles cached. It parses the content of articles and stores the text in a db. Then as you highlight and add notes, the text gets updated with the annotations. It doesn't pull multipage documentation. Each url should be added manually. At least for now.
  - riidom 5y ago
    Thanks for the detailed answer, starred anyway! :)
  - pbronez 5y ago
    I would get a lot of value out of a tool like this. I have a strong preference for a portable executable and file-based storage. Performance can be a problem with those, but I want to use my existing file management and synchronization tools as much as possible. If that's not possible, than my second preference is a docker-based deployment on Unraid. That's the easiest way for me to self-host. Nice to be able to point to an existing DB for that too.
    - Vivtek 5y ago
      Flask is pretty lightweight and will run under anything. Including compiling to a portable executable. I mean, potentially. I'm 100% with you on file-based storage and flexible storage interchange APIs. I have a bunch of stuff I'd like this kind of tool to interoperate with.

I was about to ask the same thing, didn't realize until your answer, that it is web-based? A local offline application would be great! (also maybe.. is making an account necessary?) And one more question, can it also pull multi-page documentation, or just single URL's? I assume it downloads websites and makes them offline available, or is that a wrong assumption.

roznoshchik 5y ago
It is web based. That way you can read on the computer and continue reading on the phone or any other device. A version that runs just locally on the computer would also work, but that wasn't the main focus of this particular iteration. I haven't built a robust offline functionality yet. That's something I'm thinking of doing in the near future. Was thinking of having your X most recent articles cached. It parses the content of articles and stores the text in a db. Then as you highlight and add notes, the text gets updated with the annotations. It doesn't pull multipage documentation. Each url should be added manually. At least for now.
- riidom 5y ago
  Thanks for the detailed answer, starred anyway! :)
- pbronez 5y ago
  I would get a lot of value out of a tool like this. I have a strong preference for a portable executable and file-based storage. Performance can be a problem with those, but I want to use my existing file management and synchronization tools as much as possible. If that's not possible, than my second preference is a docker-based deployment on Unraid. That's the easiest way for me to self-host. Nice to be able to point to an existing DB for that too.
  - Vivtek 5y ago
    Flask is pretty lightweight and will run under anything. Including compiling to a portable executable. I mean, potentially. I'm 100% with you on file-based storage and flexible storage interchange APIs. I have a bunch of stuff I'd like this kind of tool to interoperate with.