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by roznoshchik 1585 days ago
It is web based. That way you can read on the computer and continue reading on the phone or any other device.

A version that runs just locally on the computer would also work, but that wasn't the main focus of this particular iteration.

I haven't built a robust offline functionality yet. That's something I'm thinking of doing in the near future. Was thinking of having your X most recent articles cached.

It parses the content of articles and stores the text in a db. Then as you highlight and add notes, the text gets updated with the annotations.

It doesn't pull multipage documentation. Each url should be added manually.

At least for now.

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I would get a lot of value out of a tool like this. I have a strong preference for a portable executable and file-based storage. Performance can be a problem with those, but I want to use my existing file management and synchronization tools as much as possible.

If that's not possible, than my second preference is a docker-based deployment on Unraid. That's the easiest way for me to self-host. Nice to be able to point to an existing DB for that too.

Flask is pretty lightweight and will run under anything. Including compiling to a portable executable.

I mean, potentially.

I'm 100% with you on file-based storage and flexible storage interchange APIs. I have a bunch of stuff I'd like this kind of tool to interoperate with.

Thanks for the detailed answer, starred anyway! :)