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Hypothes.is mentions (45)

• What happened to the idea of having a comment section for each webpage?

  Tools like https://web.hypothes.is exist and have a decent number of installs. The hard part of a generic third-party commenting tool is creating the right social context for it to actually be useful. Hypothesis for example is mostly used via its integration into online learning platforms, where that context already exists. - Source: Hacker News / 3 months ago

• Browser extensions are underrated: the promise of hackable software

  I honestly can't imagine not using extensions. I'm 39 and have been on the web since Netscape etc in the early 90s and I honestly care more about the extensions than I do anything the browser actually does. Like, if there were no extensions I don't think I'd care at all if I used Firefox, Chrome, Opera, etc. But Chrome and Firefox have this massive, massive ecosystem of productitivy improving extensions. I'll give... - Source: Hacker News / 3 months ago

• ArXiv now offers papers in HTML format

  I think https://web.hypothes.is/ would be of interest to you. - Source: Hacker News / 5 months ago

• Startup to add likes and upvotes on any context?

  Https://web.hypothes.is/ already exists for collaborative commentary on practically anything web based. So there is a market of sorts. Source: 10 months ago

• Annotating emails?

  Not native to Gmail, but there are some tools that allow notes and comments on web pages as an extension. https://web.hypothes.is/ does this and is open source (if that matters to you). Source: 10 months ago

POLAR mentions (5)

• What do software do you use to create flashcards when reading ebooks?

  I did find this https://getpolarized.io/ But it seems that project is dead. Source: 5 months ago

• Show HN: Lurnby, a tool for better learning, is now open source

  Https://getpolarized.io/ seems like it's in the same space - it's a product I wanted to love, but was a bit clunky to use and didn't end up sticking in my workflow. - Source: Hacker News / about 2 years ago

• How do you memorize things you read?

  Don't think Anki has a fully baked implementation of incremental reading. Polar [0] is an interesting implementation of a similar concept: read and annotate and turn your highlights into Anki flashcards automatically. [0]: https://getpolarized.io. - Source: Hacker News / over 2 years ago

• Want to Remember Everything You'll Ever Learn? Surrender to This Algorithm

  Https://getpolarized.io This is a tool meant to help with incremental reading, with support for generating Anki flashcards. - Source: Hacker News / over 2 years ago

• How to Read Books When You Have ADHD

  “Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested; that is, some books are to be read only in parts; others to be read, but not curiously; and some few are to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention.” -- Francis Bacon Mortimer Adler's How to Read a Book provides a decent framework for dealing with the variety of books out there. There are also tools like Polar[1]... - Source: Hacker News / about 3 years ago