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I've also downloaded this software and my impression is that it is far far from 95% to be an outstanding product. At least I bumped into small ui bugs the author should catched himself before a release.

At the same time I agree with his idea that a knowledge base + spaced repetition is a good combination, however outputting spaced repetition into a 3rd party app is not a good idea.

I see that burtonator is trying to push this product here every time a relevant discussion pops up, I don't have an issue with that. But I do think that this product is a long way from being useful for me in a daily setting. Right now it's nothing more than an electron wrapper around pdf.js and knowing how far I read a pdf.

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> Right now it's nothing more than an electron wrapper around pdf.js and knowing how far I read a pdf.

Except for cloud sync, and annotations, and flashcards, and sync to anki, and pagemarks, and archived documents, and flagging, and tagging, and stats on your reading, and a dedicated annotations view, and the ability to export your annotations, and the ability to capture entire web pages for offline use and annotations.

But other than that it's exactly like pdf.js :)

> I've also downloaded this software and my impression is that it is far far from 95% to be an outstanding product.

I couldn't parse that. Is this good or bad?

> At least I bumped into small ui bugs the author should catched himself before a release.

If you can point these out we can fix them. I'm still working on fit and finish in some places and rapidly iterating. I'm pushing 1/2 builds a week now based on user feedback so if something is broken let me know and I'll fix it :)

Far far from 95% to be an outstanding product, to me, implies it is a bad thing.

I started out with polarized, but then I moved onto just putting all my pdfs in a folder and highlighting them in adobe reader.

Dang. That’s what I’m doing too and I’m somewhat happy with it. But it does bother me that it only works with PDFs, and there’s no easy way to decouple the annotations from the content, so I was hoping that Polar might be significantly better.

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