Show HN: Annotary - Highlight Web Pages, Share Your Notes

by TravisLS • 14 years ago

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TravisLS2• 14 years ago

Hi HN folks, I've been on this site for some years now and watched many others post their projects and get great feedback.

This is my latest endeavor. I thought it would appeal nicely to the HN crowd who read heavily online. Let me know what you think - I'm here to answer any questions.

gaunab• 14 years ago

So, yet another bookmark-note-taking-whatnot-app.

1. Can you export your data? JSON preferred.

2. Is there an API?

3. How does it compare to http://okfnlabs.org/annotator/, which is free, open source and distributed?

TravisLS2• 14 years ago

1. Not yet, although it's a pretty commonly requested feature, so we'll likely include it soon.

2. Again, not yet. What features would you like to see in an API?

3. The main difference is the social value. I can easily make annotations and share them with you, see what my friends are bookmarking and highlighting. We're looking to build a community, rather than just an annotation tool.

biznickman• 14 years ago

Looks like the same thing Markerly is working on

gregneuf• 14 years ago

they are indeed similar - I like annotary's UI much better

webwanderings• 14 years ago

This kind of thing should come native and default with the Internet browsers, but it doesn't and I don't know why. Consequently a question I keep on asking for long: why is no one paying attention to the bookmarks manager of any of the popular browsers?

In any case, these annotating services have a long history on the web and most of them have failed to make any mark in a long run (anyone remembers Google Notebook and why they folded?). Clipmarks was another old annotating service which had a good bookmarklet and cult following but it had to fold. Diigo I believe is still around but in what form?

The moral of the story is that it is practically impossible now to gain the trust of the crowd with any such new service. I wouldn't want to use your service because I cannot trust you will be around for long. Sorry, but that's the reality at the end of the day.

urlwolf• 14 years ago

Diigo had this functionality in say 2010, and somehow it doesn't seem to have taken off. Anyone knows why?

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