Markticle

Mark your reading progress in articles for later

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Mark your reading progress in articles for later

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As part of his Built in Public project, @ZackShapiro had some interesting thoughts on Read-it-Later: http://us8.campaign-archive2.com...

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12yr ago

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@ZackShapiro @thomasmeagher Added to my read list in Markticle :) Thanks!

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12yr ago

@thomasmeagher thanks for the link Tom

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12yr ago

This is interesting. So you're not handling any of the saving for later, just the highlighting and storing of the fragments you highlight. Are you saving the location on the page that I got to for future reference too? That'd be really handy

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12yr ago

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@zackshapiro Yes, of course, I'm saving both URL and the text you marked. I'm not saving the location in terms of "location on the page", because I want to support responsive design and mobile.

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12yr ago

@dsternlicht Is this meant to be a Pocket substitution or an add-on? Should I keep saving into Pocket or save into Markticle?

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12yr ago

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@zackshapiro I want to say "use Markticle", but it's very oriented to articles reading, while pocket is useful the same way bookmarks are useful - to save any website.

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12yr ago

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Hi everyone! I created this extension. Will be more than happy to answer your questions. Daniel

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12yr ago

@dsternlicht thanks for sharing your work! Could you please share why you solved this particular problem? I'm wondering if you are seeing people actually go back and continue reading? Personal experience... After trying ReadItLater and other tools I'm finding @SoundGecko the most useful. Very different product but seems to solve a similar itch for me? Thanks.

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12yr ago

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@SoundGecko @lekanb It's actually a funny story. I thought about it while reading a very long article about development on Smashing Magazine. I was concentrating on reading the article when suddenly my wife called me to help her out with something. When I wanted to go back to the article I already needed to catch a train to work. To make a long story short, I thought it could be nice to continue reading the same article from the exact spot I left on mobile, and then in work (on another machine I'm using). I got a lot of great feedback about this product, other people (than me) find it very useful too :) Of course, unlike 'Save for later' or 'Pocket', this product is very align for online content consumers.

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12yr ago

@dsternlicht Love the personal story. Thanks for sharing context. Wonder if a 'nudge me in X days' feature would be helpful. Thanks for responding.

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12yr ago

Castle

@dsternlicht This is amazing stuff man! Any chance you'll be making this an extension for iOS I'd love to make it an official extension in Quest!

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12yr ago

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@lekanb Sounds like a good feature! Added to my TODO list :)

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12yr ago

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Neat extension indeed. How do you solve the sharing issue though? If I want to save an article to read it later, I use Pocket. Your extension seems really useful in case of a collective box where a community could share what all of its members read (and highlight). Interested to have your thoughts on this ;)

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12yr ago

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@s_guigue That's an interesting idea! Another direction I thought about is for students. Think about student who should write a big work or an article, and can mark paragraph with Markticle, and then just combine them all into one document!

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12yr ago

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Do you think the mark on markticle is quickly understood since it’s very similar to "highlighting" which is used in all of the eReading apps? Typically you mark a spot with a bookmark of sorts or tab. Highlighting is used for several snippets of content you’d like to refer back to at a later time. Given that, I’m wondering why you went for a highlight instead?

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12yr ago

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@imcatnoone It's a very interesting question, and I think that the answer will be that it's very natural to mark something by highlighting it (king of a combination between both of the actions). Think about reading a book or using a note book, how would you mark a line you want to return to later? By highlighting it!

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12yr ago

As a follow-up to @zackshapiro, correct me if I'm wrong: Markticle, unlike Pocket, doesn't let you save for offline reading (in NYC, for instance, Pocket is great for subway reading)?

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12yr ago

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@zackshapiro @robertjordan33 Right, currently Markticle is still not supporting offline reading, but it's definitely in my TODO list :)

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12yr ago