A highlighter pen for the web
For a while Claus and I have been talking about how disjointed the reading experience is from the online experience. Sometimes reading on the web is like reading behind those glass walls researchers use when examining dangerous material.
Interaction is learning
I recently heard Dr. Jan Borchers say something like “you should be able to tell if a book is yours from a distance of 20 meters”. The point is kind of obvious; the more you interact with a text, the faster and better you absorb its contents.
So we built Marksaved so you can interact with and annotate websites you read. Highlights today, notes in the near future.
The annotation swarm
And then there’s the flood of cool stuff you can do with thousands of highlights and notes on webpages. Ultra-compact summaries of long articles is one. Spotting trends is another. Using highlights as search ranking is a third.
Here’s a longer version of the video on the site. We decided it may become too boring and long for the front page, so I’m posting it here instead:
Check it out for yourself at Marksaved.com