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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 ann…
Therefore I'm using org-mode, its just a UTF8 encoded file, even if org-mode disappeared over night, I can still read the data.
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.
If you are willing to use the zettelkasten method, then you can use one based on Sublime Text[1], or one that is a standalone program[2].
You can use a more free-form wiki, with a simple plugin for Sublime[3]
These Markdown files will work a slew of different wiki servers, including Gollum, the wiki used for Github, Gitlab, and BitBucket, and are only one step away from vim-wiki.
But, since they are simple text, you could even access them on most other platforms.
[1]: https://github.com/renerocksai/sublime_zk
Don't get me wrong, I've tried it out and it's awesome. I'm just not seeing how it's going to take off as a knowledge repository with its limitations. The last thing I want is yet another place I have to look for my files, and I sure don't want to have to keep things in sync with a repo that holds the rest of my files.
I'm also concerned with the ability of this thing to scale. There doesn't appear to be any system for grouping items other than tagging. Maybe tagging works for others, but it's not something I trust (if I have hundreds of items and missed a tag, the item is lost).
Definitely don't want this to be a negative comment. It's more "you're 95% of the way to an outstanding product, but I think the last 5% might be an obstacle to adoption."
I started keeping favorite quotes in Hypercard back in 1987. I didn't pay attention when Hypercard went extinct 15 years later, and failed to do the work to extract the data. Now I keep info in text files and grep is my friend. No spaced repetition, but tags go in as grep-able raw text too. Will Polar, or Evernote, or any other system, be around in 30 years?
I started keeping favorite quotes in Hypercard back in 1987. I didn't pay attention when Hypercard went extinct 15 years later, and failed to do the work to extract the data. Now I keep info in text files and grep is my friend. No spaced repetition, but tags go in as grep-able raw text too. Will Polar, or Evernote, or any other system, be around in 30 years?
I have a haphazard way of managing notes and docs that has too much overhead.
I would like a squirrel program to store and retrieve more easily and will eventually just write one.
I think we need more tools that rely on self-hosting cheap nodes for data where the owner has complete control. Knowledge management systems are really personal and if third parties go away then that is critically bad. I intend to keep this info for 50-100 years so need something that does a good job of just storing to git or whatever and then rely on different front-ends and things that can be run without any third party access to data.
The iOS model is closest to this in terms of data and apps, but is not OSS and I spend so much time in front of a full computer so phone access only is too limited.
"We use cookies to track your usage. We use cookies to track your usage and to determine which features are used to improve the quality of Polar.
Additionally, we track application errors which helps us find bugs and to prioritize which issues to fix.
This data is sent to 3rd parties which provide the infrastructure necessary to provide the analytics services needed to analyze and store the data.
We avoid sending personally identifiable information at all times."
https://getpolarized.io/cookie-policy.html
I am forced to click on "Accept" actually, which I don't like.
Overall it looks like calibre to me, however Calibre does not do highlighting