What's new in Polar 2.0.42
Oct 14, 2020
- Remove trial text since we can't currently offer trials
New in Polar 1.100.1 Pre-release (Mar 23, 2020)
- Fixing package-lock issues
New in Polar 1.90.17 Pre-release (Feb 7, 2020)
- Flow for the annotation sidebar now fixes the header at the top and properly sets overflow so just the sidebar text flows.
- Short term workaround for a bug where firebase won't write to prefs on startup which blocked cloud sync on restart for some users.
- Upgraded to latest Firebase libraries (7.7.0)
- Fixed bug with spacing in the tree sidebar for nodes that get compressed.
- Ability to filter annotations on the sidebar.
- Fixed bug with performing reviews when nothing left was available.
- Fixed bug with #? not being encoded properly due when creating file URLs.
New in Polar 1.90.15 (Feb 3, 2020)
- Flow for the annotation sidebar now fixes the header at the top and properly sets overflow so just the sidebar text flows.
- Short term workaround for a bug where firebase won't write to prefs on startup which blocked cloud sync on restart for some users.
- Upgraded to latest Firebase libraries (7.7.0)
- Fixed bug with spacing in the tree sidebar for nodes that get compressed.
- Ability to filter annotations on the sidebar.
- Fixed bug with performing reviews when nothing left was available.
- Fixed bug with #? not being encoded properly due when creating file URLs.
New in Polar 1.90.0 (Feb 3, 2020)
- Suggestions and net promoter score disabled for now as users were complaining that it was asking too often. We're going to disable this until we can make sure that users are only asked once per month at most.
- significant improvements with mobile apps and spaced repetition
- Fixed bug with safari not rendering the top left folder filters...
New in Polar 1.80.29 (Feb 3, 2020)
- "Copy clipboard" from logs now pretty prints the JSON args
- Reworked flashcard app so the flashcards now look like real flashcards.
- Animations now work with the sidebar properly
- Navigations now work on tablet and phone with routes
- Reworked routes so that they're cached + faster plus work with nav
- Fixed bad bug with authentication and Google auth bringing up external URL window/prompts
New in Polar 1.80.10 (Feb 3, 2020)
- Fixed bug with flashcard entry where the wrong field was used.
- Fixed layout for sidebar and main content.
- Fixed Electron 7.0 distribution issue.
New in Polar 1.80.0 (Feb 3, 2020)
- Fixed bug with tablets now showing the pricing plan
- removed outline on MacOS for tree nodes on the sidebar.
- Dramatically improved our mobile and tablet apps.
- Fixed bug where PHZ files were breaking with iframes that were invalid.
- Changed #annotations and #stats URLs so that they are /annotations and /stats as we're going to migrate to anchors for sub-screens for history.
- Fixed privacy policy URL in login page
- Tags can now contain spaces and hyphens
- Semaphore now used for Windows disk writes.
- Removed some unused libraries
- Upgrades to latest firebase
New in Polar 1.70.4 (Feb 3, 2020)
- Features:
- Fix for Google authentication issues due to exposing Electron in User Agent and confused Google.
- Migration to Electron 7.1.4
- Flagged items are now bold.
- odd/even coloring in the document list / table.
- usability: the sidebar has been significantly redesigned
- "+" button for adding tags and folders
- context menu for adding tags and folders
- remove tag from docs
- usability: expand/collapse of folders now works now.
- UI: better UI filter control.
- usability: you can now see the folders a file is within in the document repository
- usability: you can now export annotations from the annotations view.
- usability: double click of comments or flashcards edits them.
- Fixes:
- Reading and review for older items would fail due to schema changes.
- ChromeOS is now a desktop platform
- Upgrade account button now works.
- Improved text in suggestions dialog.
- The user suggestions dialog is centered.
- usability: Fixed an issue where if the user accidentally hit 'r' the document would rotate and people couldn't figure out how to revert.
New in Polar 1.60.11 (Feb 3, 2020)
- Features:
- The sidebar now doesn't show the color for the buttons unless you hover over them. The colors are also more muted to help not distract more when using the annotation sidebar.
- Flashcards stats in the mobile app
- Ability to revise the text of a text highlight.
- Big refactor of the context menu so that range selection and context menus work properly.
- Ability to remove items from folders via right click
- Multi-selection for deletes implemented
- Deleting multiple items via context menu now works
- Bronze now officially required for reading stats and recommended tags
- The context menus now have icons
- Major refactor of how text selection works using the new modern text layer code in pdf.js which has been a major complaint since 1.0. Excited to finally have this fixed!
- Fixes:
- Fixed bug where sometimes exceptions were swallowed
- Updated Firebase to hopefully fix some bugs with latency and exceptions..
- Fixed delete dialogs as they were using older code...
- Merged branch for image optimization.
- Fixed alignment of headers in the doc repo
- Fixed bad bug with stats for spaced repetition queue not being computed accurately.
- Improved performance of doc table when selecting items.
- The document repository view is now much faster and context menus no longer have a 'gap' which wouldn't trigger the menu.
- Now using larger buttons in the UI
- Show the front + back of cards when we 'show answer'
New in Polar 1.50.10 (Feb 3, 2020)
- Statistics now shown for flashcards when the user is using spaced repetition
- No more hamburger menu in the sidebar. All options are now flat in the desktop UI and more discoverable.
- Using proper MacOS system font along with Robot everywhere else including android devices.
- New documentation rework and will be improving this long term.
- Added two more colors to the annotation bar. Was frequently requested by our users so just added it.
- Flashcards now inherit the text of the annotation when being created to avoid double copy / pasting of text.
- Mobile now a supported platform and designed for spaced repetition. This will get us moving on mobile until we can build out a real/full reading platform there.
- The header and footer in the doc repo is fixed now and don't move as you scroll.
- Fixed bug with drag and drop and working with items from the second page of results.
- Flashcard reviewer now integrated along with our normal spaced repetition.
- Annotation reviewer spaced repetition system finally integrated into Polar
- More work on mobile including disabling some features when using the app.
- Active filters are now light blue so that users know they have filters enabled.
- Color and annotation type filters now work.
- Fixed bug with the root folders having the wrong counts
New in Polar 1.40.1 (Feb 3, 2020)
- The dropdowns were broken and appearing off screen which is now fixed.
- Highlights in the annotation view have colors again.
New in Polar 1.40.0 (Feb 3, 2020)
- Upgraded to the latest version of Typescript
- Fixed bug related to authentication and some accounts that would break when trying to login and this would fail intermittently.
- It's now possible to drag documents from the document repository into the sidebar on tags and folders.
- Upgraded to latest version of firebase
- We now have 'Folders' and 'Tags' in the sidebar.
- It's not possible to display tags in the sidebar and select them.
- Fixed about 250 errors with npm audit as 'npm' itself somehow became a dependency.
- Upgrade jszip
- Upgraded to pdfjs-dist 2.2.228
New in Polar 1.32.48 (Feb 3, 2020)
- Fixed bug with polar not working when disconnected from the Internet.
- Improved issue with markdown exports and text
- Big upgrade of dependencies. firebase and pdf.js
- Actually fixed the sidebar stall loading bug. Wasn't actually fixed.
New in Polar 1.32.13 (Feb 3, 2020)
- Polar site now has SEO metadata for linked pages.
- cleanup of dependencies to avoid security issues.
- Migrating to lerna for module management. Things aren't perfect yet and version numbers might have gaps from here on out.
- Fixed a bad bug which caused the sidebar to continually reload over and over again. We can still make it faster by using pure components I think.
New in Polar 1.32.1 (Feb 3, 2020)
- Better name for the root node (Documents and Annotations)
- URL nav should work in android now...
New in Polar 1.32.0 (Sep 3, 2019)
- Fixed repository app test.
New in Polar 1.19.1 (May 13, 2019)
- Added the YouTube video splash
New in Polar 1.0.4 (Oct 23, 2018)
- Version bump
- Added uuid instead of sequence.
- Fixed tests
New in Polar 1.0.3 (Oct 18, 2018)
- Updated some documentation for a portable release for windows. Should be possible but I think I need to change the name of the installer and it's about an hours worth of work
- Added ToS and other links to the menu bar.
New in Polar 1.0.0 Beta 211 (Oct 10, 2018)
- Using persistent sessions now so GA metrics should be more accurate
- Message on the top of the doc repo so I can start using the polar user base more aggressively to help us out and contribute as a group.
- Improved the look of the sidebar a bit...