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.
- Freemium • Open Source
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- Electron / Atom Shell
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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.
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.
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Windows: Windows requires you to manually accept that the app is a new app and hasn't yet earned reputation.
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- notes-manager
- save-for-later
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Our users have written 18 comments and reviews about Polar, and it has gotten 61 likes
- Developed by Kevin Burton
- Open Source and Freemium product.
- Subscription that costs between $5 and $15.
- Average rating of 4.1
- 60 alternatives listed
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The initial acceptance terms upon installing this made me uninstall it immediately without bothering to try it. Too much tracking for my liking. Felt like I was about to use one of those nasty intrusive Google apps! I don't care how much organisations promise not to use identifiable information etc. They are, at least, very open about tracking you, but I don't want any snooping whatsoever. Particularly for a database application in which I'm like to be storing sensitive information. What I do on my computer is private.
Reference T&C screenshot
https://imgur.com/fUeXRsR
It isn't free if "free" means that less than half of its features are usable, and at the same time, it fully tracks you in the use of the application, plus bugs like not connecting to internet for syncing
neither in the desktop application nor in the browser extension.
[Edited by Maalo, November 23]
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Polar by far isn't really usable due to bugs and many other inconveniences. However, I personally believe it has potential to become an essential app for productivity. It is similar to Memex but for pdf
It solves the web archiving and note problem efficiently and wothout all the crud from soultions like evernote.
Still many features are missing and it still has some bugs. But good starting point and I hope it will be further developed.