Dark Room Reviews

POLAR Reviews

Dark Room mentions (3)

• A note taking app that uses .txt?

  The only thing I know with half of those features that's discontinued is the old Darkroom app but that doesn't tackle some of the bigger compatibilities. Source: about 2 years ago

• I have trouble shutting my internal editor off

  Not sure if this is applicable, but if you're using Word or Scrivener or something, you may want to switch to a plaintext editor like Dark Room or Typora--something that won't underline your spelling and grammar mistakes. It doesn't even have italics or bold to get in your way. Dark Room is a little old, but I found it here: https://codex.jjafuller.com/books/dark-room/page/overview. Source: over 2 years ago

• Anyone use a plain text editor to write?

  I use DarkRoom. Full screen, no distractions, no "fancy" auto-formatting. Source: about 3 years ago

POLAR mentions (5)

• What do software do you use to create flashcards when reading ebooks?

  I did find this https://getpolarized.io/ But it seems that project is dead. Source: 6 months ago

• Show HN: Lurnby, a tool for better learning, is now open source

  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. - Source: Hacker News / over 2 years ago

• How do you memorize things you read?

  Don't think Anki has a fully baked implementation of incremental reading. Polar [0] is an interesting implementation of a similar concept: read and annotate and turn your highlights into Anki flashcards automatically. [0]: https://getpolarized.io. - Source: Hacker News / over 2 years ago

• Want to Remember Everything You'll Ever Learn? Surrender to This Algorithm

  Https://getpolarized.io This is a tool meant to help with incremental reading, with support for generating Anki flashcards. - Source: Hacker News / almost 3 years ago

• How to Read Books When You Have ADHD

  “Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested; that is, some books are to be read only in parts; others to be read, but not curiously; and some few are to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention.” -- Francis Bacon Mortimer Adler's How to Read a Book provides a decent framework for dealing with the variety of books out there. There are also tools like Polar[1]... - Source: Hacker News / about 3 years ago