Polar It is a free program, under the GPL license. It is the next little known program that I will present today in this series of articles where you can discover programs that you may not have known about, but that are interesting for various reasons. This is how I detach myself for a moment from the articles in which they always talk about the same programs and projects as always ...
First of all, for get Polar You have several alternatives, one of them is to look for it in your app store, since it is included in some to install with a single click in a comfortable way. Another option is to go to your official website, where you can get information about the project and also download it. That said, let's see what exactly this software is ...
Well, Polar is cross-platform, and it's available for Linux. It is a manager for various types of content. Can manage content web like a browser, books (ebooks), and more. So you can have all the content centralized in one place, being able to tag it, and catalog it in a more comfortable way.
Between Polar features, the following stand out:
- PDF: allows you to manage documents in this format or simply read documents from your library.
- Páginas web- It can also act as an offline web browser, that is, capture or download the HTML content for offline viewing whenever you want.
- Page marks- You can mark pages so that you can keep track of everything that has been read and the progress of each document. It even allows a non-linear reading of documents.
- Offline / Online: all content is stored locally, so you can access it at any time without connection as I have commented, although it has the ability to synchronize with the cloud.
- Hackable: allows a great degree of customization and modification, since everything is based on Electron, Node, PDF, js, React, and other well-known standards. So if you are a developer, you can manipulate it at will like other open source projects.
- Standards-based- All content is stored in JSON, and annotations will never change the original content, allowing you to maintain a secure repository of documents.
- Allows you to make annotations- One of the most loved features to be able to underline text, highlight areas, attach metadata like comments, cards, etc.