Dear Fellow Information Hoarders – Join Me
I'm a fellow information hoarder. I had long work commutes on public transit, so I used my passive time to read and learn everyday to try and grow 1% each day.
I used GMail drafts body to save links and the subject as searchable tags. I saved thousands of entries this way before I noticed two things: 1.) I'm actually interested in only a few parts of each link and want an easy way to return to those parts in the future, and 2.) I wish I could see the parts of links other dedicated readers found useful which would both help discover quality resources and save time with highlights acting as a preview or summary.
So I actually built a social annotation web overlay that saves to a web app that's both an aggregator and social network: https://www.kontxt.io/. I publicly share most of what I read and highlight on my profile https://www.kontxt.io/profiles/d.
Hacker News is one of my seed sites I visit multiple times a day, so I created a group for myself and other HN readers to see people's highlights of links on HN: https://www.kontxt.io/groups/23423/documents. Feel free to join and share your highlights, or just quickly view all the best parts of the links on HN highlighted by others.
It would bring me no greater joy than to see the hundreds of thousands of lines of code I've developed over six years be used to unite avid readers on HN and fellow information addicts to learn and grow together as a community. Stay curious--and keep reading!