https://getpolarized.io/ seems like it's in the same space - it's a product I wanted to love, but was a bit clunky to use and didn't end up sticking in my workflow.
Woah. Didn't know about this. I'm honestly amazed at how many similar things I've discovered that I didn't know about when I started this. I did look for similar tools, but didn't really surface that many of them. Not sure I would have ever started had I known the space was actually not as empty as it seemed.
Would love to know what about the flow was clunky and why it didn't fit your workflow. Might be a lot that I can learn from that.
This was a while ago, but IIRC there were some fairly major software-reliability rough edges (frequent crashing/bugs/etc). Beyond that the major shortcoming was that it was constrained to pdf's only, and that's only one part of my reading workflow.
For a while I was trying to sync a Zotero library (since I need citation management when writing papers), and do all my academic reading (which is mostly pdf's) in Polar, but it was just a bit too much overhead to stick with.
Oh interesting. PDF's is what is hardest for me. I need a completely different approach to handling them than I have been using for web content and epubs.
Thanks for sharing your story, it helps to put things in perspective. I wonder how much they've improved since you used them though. The website looks very sleek.
Would love to know what about the flow was clunky and why it didn't fit your workflow. Might be a lot that I can learn from that.