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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

by 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.

by riidom 5y ago

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.