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I'm working on Polar:

https://getpolarized.io/

It's been out for about 1.2 years now and we're really starting to nail some important features.

JUST about to post a new release now.

COVID19 is having us pivot a bit in that we're going to experiment with collaborative group reading in the hopes that students can work more efficiently with their colleagues without having to leave home.

The core idea is to have a fully-integrated reading platform sort of like an integrated development environment but for non-fiction material (textbooks, research papers, documentation, plus web content).

Right now we support PDF and web content but are actively working on EPUB and improved reading of web content.

The key functionality is built around annotating your documents and taking notes and building flashcards so you can maintain a personal knowledge repository.

It's also Open Source and supports cloud sync. We have a mobile webapp now and working on porting it over to Android soon.



Love the github-style activity tracker. It seems like such a small thing, but it's been a huge help in keeping myself in the habit of making regular progress.


Agreed.. the gamification can be huge. I'd like to keep iterating on this moving forward.


Wow this looks really good. It would be good to have integrated support with Kindle devices then I would definetly subscribe.


Can it be used without external services, like firebase?


You can use it as a standard desktop app without logging in but then you don't really have cloud sync.


Looks great!




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