Organization and reading of documents and books in PDF format;
Capture HTML pages (web) and save to Polar library (locally on your hard drive);
It is possible to track the progress of reading each document. The document opens where you left off;
All content is stored locally, i.e. you can work offline, but there is a possibility of synchronization between other computers with the built-in Polar service (there is a free plan: 2 active devices, up to 350 MB, up to 100 web page captures);
It is possible to add annotations to PDF documents and saved web pages, as well as add comments and create an educational card from the annotation to the Anki program;
Viewer for Annotations and Notes. Integrated annotation viewer. Search, sort, and tag all annotations and comments in one place;
There are statistics on the progress of reading, on the types and number of documents read;
Integrated Document Viewer Integrated document reader (PDF, webpages) to the best reading experience;.
Area Highlights Capture a region of the page as a highlight which can be a chart, figure, infographic, etc.
For each document in the library, you can:
assign tags;
add a mark (flag);
add to archive;
add to folder.
Documents can be sorted by:
a keyword in the search bar;
tag;
note;
archiving;
folder.
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Installation
The software Polar is available for installation on Linux, Windows and macOS.
Installation method
OS
Deb
Ubuntu* 16.04/18.04/19.04/20.04, Linux Mint 18/19, Debian
Snap
Ubuntu, Linux Mint, Debian, Arch Linux, Fedora, CentOS, KDE Neon, openSUSE, elementary OS, Manjaro, Red Hat Enterprise Linux
AppImage
Ubuntu, Fedora, openSUSE, CentOS, elementaryOS, Linux Mint and others