Comments on post “Highly for iOS”
Andrew Courter
@covrter · Highly
👋 Hi everybody! Thanks @eriktorenberg! Andrew from Highly here.
Highlights are the killer way to share stories with friends (online and off). And since we mostly read on our phones, we need to highlight there, too. So we’re pleased as heck to share Highly for iOS, version one, here today. Now you can highlight wherever you’re reading, including *within* darn near every app on your phone. (See also: Highly for web, Chrome and Safari).
Read our POV on How to Highlight the Internet: https://medium.com/highlight-to-...
And a pseudo-thinkpiece on how the highlight layer will make the web more useful: https://medium.com/highlight-to-...
We’re stoked for your questions, comments and ideas!
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Prateek Keshari
@prateekkesharii · Digital Marketer
@covrter This is great, Andrew. Would love to try this on Android!
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Tibor Martini
@ungeruehrt · Product Manager
@covrter Hi Andrew,
have you heard about https://this.cm/ and that the service is shutting down next month?
Since your aims are pretty similar (making it easier to recommend readworthy articles), it would be interesting if both services would collab.
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Eric Wuebben
@wuebben · Founder, Highly
We hear you @prateekkesharii 👍 No news on that right now unfortunately.
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Eric Wuebben
@wuebben · Founder, Highly
@ungeruehrt @covrter We loved This! Just recently chatted with @agolis, excited to learn more from them.
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Andrei Oprisan
@andreioprisan
@covrter any chance the highlighter itself will be open sourced? more so interested on the web. I've been working on a highlighter for the web that could be plugged in to any site, to be open sourced, but still have a ways to go before I can put it out there for folks to use. Great product by the way, very slick!
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Andrew Courter
@covrter · Highly
@andreioprisan There's a chance, yes! We're very interested in covering the internet in highlights, and there's no way that happens with just one highlighter :)
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Andrei Oprisan
@andreioprisan
@covrter this pleases me tremendously. I'll look forward to it!
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Dharmesh Shah
@dharmesh · Founder and CTO, HubSpot
@andreioprisan @covrter An open source hilighter would be great. We could then make it available to the HubSpot blog team so we could conceivably get Medium-like hilighting there someday.
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Renee Chen
@reneexyc · dreamercatcher @remoteyear
@covrter @eriktorenberg i've been searching high and low for something like this for ages! amazing job - wondering whether you'll be partnering up with kindle at any point so i can have ALL of my highlights and notes in one place?! :)
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Andrew Courter
@covrter · Highly
@reneexyc Heck yes! Ideally all highlights live on one open layer, and we'll do our best to make that happen. Amazon is notoriously ... not open with Kindle data. So it's a long game :)
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Renee Chen
@reneexyc · dreamercatcher @remoteyear
@covrter I hear ya! I remember looking into different ways to "get through" their system and the best thing I could find was an extension called clippings.io - good enough but still not ideal. In any case, best of luck to ya - happy to support in any way possible!
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Andrew Courter
@covrter · Highly
@dharmesh That day may not be too far away. I'll reach out when we have some more to share :)
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Gary Fung
@garyfung · Devsigner. Founder, isoHunt
@covrter @dharmesh Agreed with the "dream" that is an open, federated data layer of highlights for the Web! I'm working on a mobile search app, would love to integrate if it becomes an OSS project.
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Annuj
@annujk
@covrter @eriktorenberg Hi There! I have a suggestion to make considering the fact that your vision for this product is lofty and inspiring.
I believe that there should be a possibility to annotate that same line which i have highlighted, the annotation could be a remark, another highlight or a pic or a tweet.
I read twitter to get some food for thought in articles and unsurprisingly I forget the article sooner than planned. So I save to pocket and tweet a line or two of the article. Now with Highly, I plan to have my highlights from one article saved as bullets under the title of the article and permalink and ability to auto-tweet each highlight. This feature needs to be available across Feedly, flipboard, Kindle, ibooks, pocket , Safari and so many other places that people read.
After I have read an article and saved highlights and tweeted them along the way, I need a beautiful repository with my annotations as well.
Next thing I need is revision, a summary email of all my highlights on a lazy sunday afternoon.
I would also love to receive the most "Highly-ted" items from the globe or my twitter stream, or from people I follow on Twitter/ or a chosen subgroup of scientists on academia.org or a chosen interest group/RSS feed of Stratechery/Brainpickings/Farnamstreet/Daringfireball/Nautilus.
You should target a stretch goal of using ML to provide me the most relevant highlight as I try to meet somebody in my calendar or strike a chat on Linkedin or while watching a youtube/TED talk.
The signal to noise ratio will be much lower as compared to Pocket (which is my most revered app) which will lead to extremely high engagement/network effect and possibly monetization via premium subscribers. Take my money today. Cheers to your efforts and hard work and amazing app.
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