Polar as a Personal Knowledge Repository

I like the idea of the Personal Knowledge Repository, but I don't like having a 3rd party app for it. 3rd Party Apps are good for creating and editing content, because there's a lot of different ways things can be made. Yet there's no great reason to use one to store content, storing content is basically the same, and OS's do it well.

Re: Polar as a Personal Knowledge Repository

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Post by dangoor » Sun, Mar 03, 2019, 4:17 PM UTC

I recently started using Evernote again after a couple of years living in other tools (e.g. DEVONthink). Since I last used it, Evernote has gotten better at saving "simplified" formats of articles to my notebooks. The ability to do so on desktop _and_ mobile devices is pretty key for me. Evernote lets me both capture and view on all of my devices.

Any plans for a mobile app for Polarized? Evernote doesn't support annotations usefully, and the incremental reading feature of Polarized also sounds cool.

Re: Polar as a Personal Knowledge Repository

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Post by hprotagonist » Sun, Mar 03, 2019, 4:18 PM UTC

sj4nz wrote: post #2

Sounds very zettelkasten-esque.

which itself sounds rather like org-mode without emacs.

Re: Polar as a Personal Knowledge Repository

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Post by franl » Sun, Mar 03, 2019, 4:27 PM UTC

@burtonator: Are in-app flashcards coming anytime soon? Love the idea of a PKR. Tried Anki for that purpose, but it just didn’t work well enough.

Re: Polar as a Personal Knowledge Repository

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Post by kissgyorgy » Sun, Mar 03, 2019, 4:38 PM UTC

I use Wallabag on a daily basis for months now and never been happier. Polar seems more advanced at the first glance, anyone using it? What are the experiences with it?

Re: Polar as a Personal Knowledge Repository

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Post by jabberthemutt » Sun, Mar 03, 2019, 4:38 PM UTC

Can I easily use this to replace zotero, jabref, mendeley etc for citation management?

Re: Polar as a Personal Knowledge Repository

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Post by stuartbman » Sun, Mar 03, 2019, 4:46 PM UTC

I've tried a few document management solutions, but I can't get past the fact that annotating documents by hand is so much more satisfying, I can't angrily scribble or circle text when they're digital!