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Polar

Polar is a powerful desktop app for managing all your web content, books, and notes. Polar keeps all your content in one place, supports tagging, annotation, highlighting and keeps track of your reading progress. Created by Kevin Burton

Freemium $ $ $ Open Source
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Polar is a powerful desktop app for managing all your web content, books, and notes. Polar keeps all your content in one place, supports tagging, annotation, highlighting and keeps track of your reading progress.

POLAR allows you to keep all your documents, annotations, and flashcards in once place. Never lose track of what you're reading again. Annotate documents directly while reading them and sync with spaced repetition systems like Anki so you never forget an important fact ever again. More Info »

Polar is listed in

Windows Apps, Mac apps, *Bookmarks, Curate, and Save Web Page | Page Saver Apps & Services [Offline & Online]

Links to official Polar sites

Official Website Twitter GitHub

Pricing Information

Subscription that costs between $5 and $15. Price may vary depending on commitment and so on.

Features

Capture web pages Google Chrome Extensions Cloud sync Document annotations Document Repository Learn with Flashcards Offline Reading PDF annotation Export to PDF Save web page for offline use Sync with Anki Tags Technical paper notes Text Highlighting Web-Based Website annotation Add a feature

Categories

News & Books Web Browsers

Tags

electron notes-manager pdf save-for-later web-page-annotation

Polar was added by burtonator423 in Oct 2018 and the latest update was made in Apr 2020. The list of alternatives was updated Jun 2020. It's possible to update the information on Polar or report it as discontinued, duplicated or spam.

Captured HTML content available for offline viewing at any time.

Document repository for tagging and managing your documents.

Page annotation including pagemarks, comments, and flashcards.

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