📢 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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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)_/¯
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?
Yes, but you will need a printer and an ink cartridge. I recommend HP LaserJet 360.
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"?
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.
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!
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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.