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burtonator
Import PDF from URL
Allow directly importing a PDF without downloading it to disk outside Polar.
No idea about the implementation, but the UX could be as in the Papers app for iOS. You'd have an Import from URL button along the Import from disk one. You'd paste a URL into it and it would get downloaded and added to the lib. Right now it's a manual wget+add from disk.
also the browser extension does this for you... I don't think you need to manually download when you have the extension.
+1 on importing from URL (or a Firefox version of the browser plugin...). Also I just noticed that the original URL is not saved for PDFs even when using the browser plugin for Chrome.
This is about the webapp as well as the regular app.
I think that when clicking "add -> capture web page" Polar should check if an url has already been copied, if yes it should directly paste and load instead of waitinf for you to paste.
Also it think it would be better to add a check box inside the "add" menu called "also open". If checked : nothing changes. If unchecked : Polar should add the document inside the repository without openning the pdf viewer, useful when adding severeal pages from the same site that we already know is working well. This checkbox would have to remember it's last state of course.
The viewer takes some time to load and it makes it tedious to add 10 wikipedia pages for example.
This feature would be handy for adding, for example, epubs from Project Gutenberg or PDFs from the Internet Archive without the need to download and reupload the files. Instead, the file should be downloaded and added server-side. This would be much faster for those who have very asymmetric up/down bandwidth.
