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getpolarized.io
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getpolarized.io is the company blog at getpolarized.io, writing about productivity and programming. Since 2018, 45 different Hacker News readers have linked it 236 times, most often “Show HN: Polar – an offline web browser with annotations and tagging”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (26) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN commenters point to Polar, an open-source document manager for PDFs and web pages with highlighting, annotation and Anki flashcards, as a tool for reading and note-keeping.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 26 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- Show HN: Polar – an offline web browser with annotations and tagging24 people · 128 mentions · first linked 2018-09-18
- Polar 2.0 Released (open-source knowledge base)13 people · 17 mentions · first linked 2019-02-19
- Getting Hacker News’d Twice – Lessons Learned for Entrepreneurs3 people · 6 mentions · first linked 2019-04-02
- Portable Datastores and Platform Independence2 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2019-03-23
- Portable Web Documents – An Alternative to PDF Based on HTML5 (2019)2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2019-05-13
- Google Killing Chrome Extensions with 1 Week Publishing Delays2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2019-04-05
- I'm one of the inventors of RSS and I need your help to reboot the Internet2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2019-04-23
- Polar 2.0 Released – Cloud document reader with ePub support2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-10-21
- Dark Mode by Default – 95% of People Prefer Dark over Light Mode2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2019-11-26
What Hacker News says?
I had a similar response when developing Polar but for Electron and the MS app store. I write a few posts about it here: https://getpolarized.io/2019/02/13/microsoft-blocking-electr... https://getpolarized.io/2019/02/28/dear-app-stores-dont-bloc... It took me four weeks to unblock me and I finally had a chance to re-publish to the MS app store and I'm waiting for their final approval of my app. YES.. I can develop t…
Comment linking /2019/02/28/dear-app-stores-dont-block-apps-lead-with-the-carrot.html
on “I tried creating a web browser, and Google blocked me”Submitted I'm one of the inventors of RSS and I need your help to reboot the Internet as a story · 428 points
HN discussionIf you're interested other Elsevier shenanigans they now encrypt your PDFs that you add to Mendeley so you don't even have access to your OWN research. https://getpolarized.io/2019/01/23/mendeleys-encrypted-repos...
Comment linking /2019/01/23/mendeleys-encrypted-repository-is-fundamentally-anti-science.html
on “UC terminates subscriptions with Elsevier in push for open access”Submitted Show HN: Top PDFs Posted to Hacker News in 2018 as a story · 411 points
HN discussionPWAs are becoming reasonable for mobile devices and could really help with some apps for initial distribution and usage. I might implement the first version of mobile reading within Polar ( https://getpolarized.io/ ) by using a PWA. The general idea is to have both a PWA and a native app. The PWA gets the users addicted and then you can have an 'install app' button within the PWA. If your app is insanely complicated…
Comment linking /2019/01/03/building-cloud-sync-on-google-firebase.html
on “Start with a Website, Not a Mobile App”Submitted Show HN: Polar – an offline web browser with annotations and tagging as a story · 382 points
HN discussion> Out of curiosity, what services and products are you paying for? To be fair you're asking the wrong person. I pay for a ton of products. I pay for IntelliJ which I think is $150 per year. HubSpot which will probably get $1k from me... I pay for Gmail... I think it's $4 per user per month? TeamCity, CircleCI ... NYTimes (yeah, I actually pay). ... but I do think you're right here. I'm actually legitimately curious…
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on “Firefox 70”Submitted Dark Mode by Default – 95% of People Prefer Dark over Light Mode as a story · 241 points
HN discussionLet me know what you think about Polar: https://getpolarized.io/ We launched about a year ago and are REALLY close to a 2.0 release.
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on “ReMarkable 2.0 – A digital notebook that feels like paper”Submitted Polar as a Personal Knowledge Repository as a story · 238 points
HN discussionI've been considering this but I'm not sure if it fits my use case. My main thing would be reading pdf's - specifically with Polar ( https://getpolarized.io/ ). I use it for keeping track of notes/annotations and syncing across devices. Does anyone know if it would work with ReMarkable? (Or does anyone have a Polar alternative?)
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on “ReMarkable 2.0 – A digital notebook that feels like paper”Submitted Using Anki and Spaced Repetition as a story · 152 points
HN discussionWhat we need are VIABLE solutions to social platforms... While people are deleting Facebook they're NOT deleting Instagram. Additionally, we're still vulnerable to a lot of the same attacks that impacted us in the 2016 election. These networks still hold your private connection graph, know what you're reading, can target you precisely with ads, etc. I'm building an app named Polar which is an offline-first document…
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on “Facebook exodus: Nearly half of young users have deleted the app”Submitted Portable Web Documents – An Alternative to PDF Based on HTML5 (2019) as a story · 137 points
HN discussionI'm the author of Polar ( https://getpolarized.io/ ) that uses PDF.js as its PDF backend. This is a somewhat big update for PDF.js which is kind of cool in that they haven't really been updating it as aggressively as they usually do in the last year or so. It's a bit frustrating to work with though. The entire concept of rendering a PDF via JS is fascinating but actually using the API has been a huge pain for us. We…
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on “Embedded PDF viewer in Firefox 81 supports filling forms”Submitted Show HN: Polar 2.0 – Integrated reading environment for EPUBs, PDFs, & web pages as a story · 106 points
HN discussionI've been heads down building an app which relies on Google Chrome and I go back and forth on this. Polar is an app for managing your reading. It also supports advanced features like caching web pages locally, annotating PDFs, tagging the documents you're reading, etc. https://getpolarized.io/ It's based on Electron and I've been going deep into Chrome internals as well as experimenting with Chrome extensions. It's…
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on “We Need Chrome No More”Submitted Getting Hacker News’d Twice – Lessons Learned for Entrepreneurs as a story · 54 points
HN discussionI ported Polar ( https://getpolarized.io/ ) over to a PWA about a year ago. It's kind of a nightmare due to both Google and Apple messing things up. PWAs could be an amazing platform but both companies are really messing it up. Apple is trying to kill them by giving plausible explanations as to why they can't have PWAs. Security this, blah blah blah. There's no reason they can't have PWAs work well in Safari other t…
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on “Private client-side-only PWAs are hard, but now Apple made them impossible”Submitted Google Killing Chrome Extensions with 1 Week Publishing Delays as a story · 34 points
HN discussionWe're shipping a new version of Polar ( https://getpolarized.io/ ) this weekend that is sort of closer to the roam/zettelkasten idea of managing notes. Here's a video explaining the new functionality: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6M6jNlairGc Basically all the documents you read can have tags. So you can manage all your documents via whatever tag you want. You can then read those documents in Polar directly and hi…
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on “Zotero: Personal Research Assistant”Submitted Show HN: Top PDFs Posted to Hacker News in 2019 Computed from Internet Archive as a story · 21 points
HN discussionThis is awesome. I'm working on something that would VERY much benefit from open access journals: https://getpolarized.io/ With Polar you maintain all your research in one place and can annotate and share with other users. One thing I want to add is the ability to sync up with open access sources to fetch PDFs, get metadata for them, find related PDFs and research, etc. Going to go heads down into this today.
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on “Elsevier journal editors resign, start rival open-access journal”Submitted Minimizing Defection Might Be the Solution to the Tragedy of the Commons as a story · 21 points
HN discussionI've thought that we could potentially build an end to end encrypted datastore within Polar and possibly add IPFS support to potentially help with this issue. Here's a blog post about our datastores for some background. https://getpolarized.io/2019/03/22/portable-datastores-and-p... ... essentially Polar is a PDF manager and knowledge repository for academics, scientists, intellectuals, etc. One secondary challenge…
Comment linking /2019/03/22/portable-datastores-and-platform-independence.html
on “Archivists Are Trying to Make Sure LibGen Never Goes Down”Submitted Polar 2.0 Released (open-source knowledge base) as a story · 15 points
HN discussionReminds me of the open-source app Polar[1], which allows you to create Anki flashcards while you read. [1] https://getpolarized.io
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on “Using Anki to remember what you read”Submitted Show HN: Polar 1.5 /w Cloud Sync. Manage your reading /w annotations and tagging as a story · 12 points
HN discussionI'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…
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on “Ask HN: What projects are you working on now?”Submitted Bill Gates Reads by Writing (In the Margins) as a story · 11 points
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