@ dms stay Discovery Channel Published an article entitled《 Three offline readers of technical documents can still view technical documents without network 》This post describes how to view technical documents in a non network environment, and recommends three document reading tools. Let's have a look@ Appinn
Original text: https://meta.appinn.net/t/topic/57426
One sentence introduction
Take the technical documents offline to the local, check them at any time, and update them in time.
Assume a scenario
You sit in a coffee shop, unable to focus on enjoying coffee because of your unscrupulous boss, and have no choice but to take out your notebook to catch up with your code progress. However, because of the hot weather, the boss's router is between the strike and the strike... Writing code can be offline, and the progress can be uploaded from another place. But who can write code without documentation?! Anyway, I won't.
In fact, the real scene I experienced was that, as a freelancer, I was excited about my idea, and when I wanted to use code to implement it, the power went out at home. It doesn't matter. My laptop has a life span of at least 8h, but it doesn't have internet. Do you mean mobile phone?! In any case, there was no UPS in the nearby base station (relay signal tower) for a period of time. Once there was a power failure here, the signal would be 2G. I really can't write code without consulting documents.
A little obsessive-compulsive disorder
I have also used some tools. For example, there are plug-ins in Utools that can download some documents. In fact, it is enough, but I always expect the documents to be kept up to date, and don't look back to find that I was reading something two years ago.
A discovery
Then I searched MDN offline curiously and found such a page: Offline MDN Docs – Kapeli , this is great! It is obviously updated frequently, can't wait to collect it, and hopes to find more. Then I read the key sentence:
please consider using a documentation browsing app like Dash (macOS), Velocity (Windows) or Zeal (Linux) instead. These apps will help you get the most out of the docs, by providing a search index and quick access to everything you need.
Please consider using document browsing applications, such as Dash (macOS), Velocity (Windows) or Zeal (Windows, Linux, macOS). These applications will help you make full use of documents by providing everything you need for search indexing and quick access.
Price first
- Dash ¥ 120, only supports MacOS
- Velocity $19.95 Windows only
- Zeal is free and supports MacOS, Windows and Linux
One key point
Of course, the documents are online, but Dash can be downloaded, maintained and updated. The source (docsets) of Dash used by all three of them contains the documents of most common technologies and frameworks, about 200+. And they are like the above pages, providing direct download (but I don't know how to find all the above pages)
difference
Dash said that it supports third-party document sources, but I don't know whether it is troublesome to set them up (I have no conditions to test). Zeal also supports third-party documents, but you need to create a subscription link of Dash docsets
last
Although the probability of use is small, most documents are almost pure text, so the volume is not large. Download a copy, and you will feel very happy if you use it.
Literary source
It seems here( GitHub – Kapeli/feeds: Collection of Dash docset feeds )It is a document source. You can click the file to see the download address. Flip through the homepage and a large number of document sources provided by users( GitHub – Kapeli/Dash-User-Contributions: Dash repo of user contributed docsets )。
In addition, @ Dalieba also recommended one:
Krzysztof Kowalczyk, author of Sumatra PDF, also developed an offline reader Documentalist , used to view technical documents in multiple languages.
Recommended to all developers.
Original text: https://www.appinn.com/3-documentation-browsing-app/
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