Comment by burtonator
8 years ago
You guys might like this:
Polar is an SRS based document management platform and personal knowledge repository I've been working on.
It syncs with anki and allows you to create and read flashcards directly in the reader itself.
Supports text annotations, highlights, comments, keeps track of where you're reading in documents, supports tags, rich formatting of notes, etc.
It's also Open Source and supports cloud sync across your desktop machines.
I’ve also been working on something similar for the past couple of years.
https://vocabifyapp.com/
Vocabify is a tool to help you remember the words you come across. It uses a basic implementation of spaced repetition to help you remember the words and phrases you add.
Having Polar sync with Anki is an interesting idea, thinking about it now, I might have been able to get further with my own tool by leveraging Anki as well. Food for thought.
> Vocabify is a tool to help you remember the words you come across. It uses a basic implementation of spaced repetition to help you remember the words and phrases you add.
Cool idea. I suggest improving the onboarding experience of your product dramatically with minimal effort by adding this sentence to your site. Like so: https://snag.gy/iqOlFC.jpg
Good shout! Added. https://snag.gy/JHfXKT.jpg
The Vocabify "definition" is added for any new users, so you'll need a fresh browser instance to check it out. Thanks!
Wow, thanks a lot for this. I was considering building something similar but barebones, and now I can use this and hopefully contribute!
Particularly happy about offline first!
Thanks.. I think one of the cool things is it supports HTML capture so you can take pages you see on Hacker News and store them for posterity!
Sure! I was using evernote and later pocket for this but they ended up as a bin for past read content. With polar that can further go to anki and then to my memory :)
Looks pretty good for building a first pass of more atomic Anki notes. I've found that over time, I need to make multiple editing passes on Anki Cards, to try to boil them down into something actually recallable. How has your experience been?
Incremental reading is exactly what I've been looking for. Thanks for sharing!
I've not really used this beyond just installing this now, but I'd encourage anyone that sounds a bit interested from this comment to go checkout the website. If the features it talks about are smooth, it looks absolutely wonderful.