This is the ultimate time saver feature when sharing. I built a web layer that does this, but goes further with multiple highlights, navigation, and rich inline communication with humans and AI, which is integrated with a web app to save, organize, and share with humans and AI. It’s https://www.kontxt.io
I'm the same! I had long work commutes on public transit, so I used my passive time to read and learn everyday to try and grow 1% each day.
I used GMail drafts body to save links and the subject as searchable tags. I saved thousands of entries this way before I noticed two things: 1.) I'm actually interested in only a few parts of each link and want an easy way to return to them in the future, and 2.) I wish I could see the parts of links other dedicated readers found useful which would both help discover quality resources and save time with highlights acting as a preview or summary. So I actually built a social annotation web overlay that saves to a web app that's both an aggregator and social network: https://www.kontxt.io/.
Hacker News is one of my seed sites I visit multiple times a day, so I created a group for myself and other HN readers to see people's highlights of links on HN: https://www.kontxt.io/groups/23423/documents. Feel free to join and share your highlights, or just quickly view all the best parts of the links on HN highlighted by others.
It would bring me no greater joy than to see the hundreds of thousands of lines of code I've developed over six years be used to unite avid readers on HN and fellow information addicts to learn and grow together as a community. Stay curious--and keep reading!
Hey there! Creator of Kontxt.io here, which was listed on the site. Quick correction.
- It's actually free.
- Still under development.
- It has a CMS and social network to organize, share, and discover with others.
- Anyone can add the annotative collaboration features directly to their own site with a single line of code to boost engagement and sharing to grow their audience.
New feature:
Stylize your highlights and add a promotion to every share. Perfect for fundraisers and charitable donations.
Description:
I highlighted a site. Put highlights on their own page. Added a background. And added a clickable promotion (to donate to the Red Cross) with analytics to see views and clicks.
>It has a CMS and social network to organize, share, and discover with others
What's your opinion on ActivityPub? Could you make the network compatible so that annotations can be shared on Mastodon and people with a Mastodon account can add comments to any highlight they find on Kontxt.io?
Would it be possible to export the data so that the notes, highlights and annotations can be used in case you discontinue Kontxt.io?
I built my own https://www.kontxt.io and hit the front page of HN not too long ago. It's a modern hybrid productivity and social bookmarking / news / knowledge aggregation service. Think social web layer with CMS and social network.
You can save the site / pdf (link or archive), engage with highlights, comments, and polls. There's privacy controls. It's searchable. Everything can be organized with tags as well as folders. You can join groups and follow people to discover shared content. Highlights can be shared natively to popular social platforms and observed with analytics. User's can also set a personal promotion with what they share as an added benefit and incentive to provide value.
Yes. I built my own https://www.kontxt.io and hit the front page of HN not too long ago. It's a modern hybrid productivity and social bookmarking / news / knowledge aggregation service. Think social web layer with CMS and social network.
You can save the site / pdf (link or archive), engage with highlights, comments, and polls. There's privacy controls. It's searchable. Everything can be organized with tags as well as folders. You can join groups and follow people to discover shared content. Highlights can be shared natively to popular social platforms and observed with analytics. User's can also set a personal promotion with what they share as an added benefit and incentive to provide value.
