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I also wanted to point out that Polar is Open Source. https://github.com/burtonator/polar-bookshelf If you'd like to look at the code. We have a unique build environment so DM me on Discord if you want to build it... You just have to use lerna and our npm repo but should work well.
https://getpolarized.io/download.html 404 not found on download. Please fix. Is there homebrew formular ?
got it. Great open source project!
I also wanted to point out that Polar is Open Source. https://github.com/burtonator/polar-bookshelf If you'd like to look at the code. We have a unique build environment so DM me on Discord if you want to build it... You just have to use lerna and our npm repo but should work well.
https://getpolarized.io/download.html 404 not found on download. Please fix. Is there homebrew formular ?
The link is: https://getpolarized.io/download/
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https://getpolarized.io/download.html 404 not found on download. Please fix. Is there homebrew formular ?
brew install polar-bookshelf got it. Great open source project!
This is the interesting thing about Open Source is you get interesting developments like this that you didn't anticipate!
Hey Hacker News! About two years ago we launched Polar on HN [1] and now we’re back to announce Polar 2.0! https://getpolarized.io/ Polar is a tool used by software engineers, students, and professionals. Anyone who wants to manage academic research, technical documentation, textbooks, or web-based reading to build a personal knowledge base. Polar is an integrated reading environment similar to your IDE that you use…
Can you expand on the Zotero integration? I like Polar for reading/annotating more than Zotero, but the metadata import and bibliography functionality of Zotero is extremely useful to me. Combining these in some way would be pretty amazing!
I went and used time machine to get an old version of the app and removed the upgrade.yml from the contents of the app package as well, so it won't auto upgrade.
This was a really bad handling of the upgrade. It is unrealistic to expect that someone with a large enough library of content locally to also put this all in the cloud for storage. I have a curated library of content so I can work offline.
I ended up switching away from it just because of the lack of support for EPUBs... so this is really exciting!! Can't wait to check out v2!
This went from a cloud / local app to 100% cloud only storage. If you have a library of content locally that you have NOT submitted to the cloud storage, then it won't show up on the update. I went and used time machine to get an old version of the app and removed the upgrade.yml from the contents of the app package as well, so it won't auto upgrade. This was a really bad handling of the upgrade. It is unrealistic to…
1. your data is 100% NOT lost. Just pull in your local Polar directory and it'll all be in the cloud 2. we increased the storage for any existing user to 2 GB to support somewhat larger libraries 3. we released an updated stable version of the latest 1.0 release for anybody who wants to keep the local directory
This went from a cloud / local app to 100% cloud only storage. If you have a library of content locally that you have NOT submitted to the cloud storage, then it won't show up on the update. I went and used time machine to get an old version of the app and removed the upgrade.yml from the contents of the app package as well, so it won't auto upgrade. This was a really bad handling of the upgrade. It is unrealistic to…
https://www.reddit.com/r/PolarBookshelf/comments/j9yfbx/pola...
The 2.0 upgrade won't and can't auto-upgrade because 2.0 is far far far more secure and we wanted to keep it that way.
2.0 is very locked up in a sandbox so it can't actually access your disk. 1.x should be secure but 2.0 radically reduces the chance of breaking out of a jail and to do automatic upgrade would have required us to relax this significantly.
You can just drag and drop your .polar directory into 2.0 and it will migrate all your 1.x data for you or you can just stick to the 1.x version I linked to above.
I would have loved to make it auto-upgrade but we just couldn't do it..
Hey Hacker News! About two years ago we launched Polar on HN [1] and now we’re back to announce Polar 2.0! https://getpolarized.io/ Polar is a tool used by software engineers, students, and professionals. Anyone who wants to manage academic research, technical documentation, textbooks, or web-based reading to build a personal knowledge base. Polar is an integrated reading environment similar to your IDE that you use…
Great work! Can you expand on the Zotero integration? I like Polar for reading/annotating more than Zotero, but the metadata import and bibliography functionality of Zotero is extremely useful to me. Combining these in some way would be pretty amazing!
The other is to just open the PDFs directly but I don't think we can get the metadata that way unfortunately.
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Great work! Can you expand on the Zotero integration? I like Polar for reading/annotating more than Zotero, but the metadata import and bibliography functionality of Zotero is extremely useful to me. Combining these in some way would be pretty amazing!
2.1 is going to focus on Zotero integration. We're working on two main changes. One is double the ability to export your Zotero and import it, including metadata, into Polar. The other is to just open the PDFs directly but I don't think we can get the metadata that way unfortunately.