📢 Announcing Highlighter 2.0
Release name: "Sig"
Highlighter has gone through so many changes that it's essentially an entirely new nostr client.
The goal remains the same:
👉 A nostr client for your most valuable information. Your reading. Your notes. Your thoughts. A place to discover thoughtful, timeless content.
I have a lot to say about Highlighter, why I'm building it, what it is and where it's going. how it fits in the mainstream adoption of Nostr, and, to a degree, in the normalization of "keys over passwords", data sovereignty and more.
But these ideas are still rough. Very, very rough and demands a lot of filling in. This is still, very much, for the early adopters.
Let's focus on what's in this important release:
✅ Data-vending-machine support: you can now very easily highlight podcasts and video content in a text-native way.
✅ Patreon support: You can now create RECURRING subscriptions to support your favorite creators and shitposters. I will say a lot more about this and a follow up with a NIP to standardize and help other builders disrupt Patreon and bring creators of all kinds to Nostr easier and more compelling.
✅ Zap-splits: Zapping a highlight creates a split on everybody involved in you seeing that content.
✅ Curation: You can now create curations of articles and earn zap splits for your curation efforts.
✅ NIP-32 Labels: categorize highlights and "margin notes" with any category
✅ Full text support: Find what interests you across any topic in any type of event in nostr.
There's a LOT more to this release that I will be discussing in the next few days.
And a lot more to come.
Stay bullshit, my friend
https://highlighter.com
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Oh my word 🤩 ...
✅ Data-vending-machine support: you can now very easily highlight podcasts and video content in a text-native way.
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I am 🐂💩
Epic 🔥
Sir, how many hours in a day where you live?
I think I use some Community pages I've made a bit like how highlighter works. They are less an actual community than a scrapbook or a Tumblr lol eg n/TouchGrass (although people are obvious welcome to leave submissions lol).
Haven't really fully explored highlighter, and will give it more of a go when home. Maybe it could be cool to have an option to Publicly as Community (maybe community is the wrong word here). 🤔
+I mean there's no reason you couldn't have ascrapbook community that is read-only/comment only or something. I don't know ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Wow! 😮
Maybe buy the other domain 😅
Wowwwww #siamstr
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😍🚀
Is it possible to make content added to the shelf available for offline reading?
This took an infinite amount of time.
Most promising client in a while ! Love that it's different than a "Twitter clone". Would it be possible to filter by languages at some point ? Could help with adoption I think
Huge, I'm getting my head around the concept of highlighter now ⚡
BUT, where can I find instruction to create and publish highlights? Asking for a friend... 🫣
Just go to any article and drag and drop what you want to highlight
https://highlighter.com/load?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.discreetlog.com%2Fchaos-order-and-freedom%2F
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What about the extension, sir? I want the extension.
Check Chrome store + nsecBunker!
Why do highlights contain the same text in a "context" tag and in the event "content"?
Yes, but you will need a printer and an ink cartridge. I recommend HP LaserJet 360.
Highlighter extension is the only one that requires nsecBunker
The app itself can use a NIP-07 extension if it detects you have one
Holy hell I haven't looked at it in a while this looks good.
Sounds useful!
Can I add to your 'to do' list?
How about a Text-to-speech feature? I think you can use already built tools for that. I used to use the Pocket App for narrating my web saved content, and it was great and free. Now they've disabled that. Oof!
the context provides well... context, i.e. if highlighting a sentence within a paragraph, keeping the paragraph (or surrounding sentences) helps understand what the highlight is about.
Before introducing this context concept I realized that a lot of highlights where missing it to understand what it was about.
Huge progress 👍 I checked it a little bit and found a bug though. Adding a reading to the shelf throws an error.
Whoa that was cool, thanks @npub1fdf2...crha! 🤙
You're welcome 👍
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Keep the clients coming 😀
Did the functionality of creating long form notes and lists, both public and private, go away? I can't seem to find it anymore.