Show HN: Mrklt, Kindle-style highlights bookmarklet for the web

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http://mrklt.herokuapp.com/

A friend and I threw this together a while ago and I recently decided to get it to a "releasble" state.

We'd appreciate feedback.

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Twitter signup fails on redirect with a "sorry that page doesn't exist".

Url is https://api.twitter.com/oauth/mrklt.herokuapp.com/session?oa...;

Doh. Broke a Heroku environment variable. It works now. Thank's for catching it.

Thanks for fixing it :)

The app itself is really nice. Seems to do exactly what I'd expect. Nice and simple.

Good work.

There are tons and tons of "web annoation" tools and services, but none have ever caught on. What makes yours different, and who is your audience?

There are quite a few, but all that I've found suck. Cruise this the list[1] and see. They all require a browser extension for highlighting.

My audience is anyone who reads in the same way I do. I often want to snip a paragraph from an article or paper and have a quick way to browse through my recent snippets to refresh my memory on what I've read.

I don't really care about "social" or seeing community highlights. I just want something to help me digest material faster.

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_annotation

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