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Re: Show HN: Pinterest for text

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Post by levng »

ideonexus wrote: post #55

I love the look and feel of this. I wish I had such a good eye for design. I know there are some other options posted, so I figure I'd throw my own side-hobby out there http://mxplx.com/ is an open-source project I wrote to keep track of my favorite quotes (memes), link them to references, triple them to other memes, and gather them in lists (schemas). I never got around to adding a clipping-tool to it, but I did int…

Thanks - I really like the categories your site has for each thing that you post. I think it'll be pretty valuable to know whether you're quoting from a tweet, a book, or a newspaper article, and not only depend on the source domain.

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Post by bjhoops1 »

levng wrote: post #11
terhechte wrote: post #7

I build something very similar in 2007: http://quotevault.appspot.com/ It has a bookmarklet to store quotes, and you can share selected quotes on a public 'quote feed': http://quotevault.appspot.com/public/terhechte It never really took of, so I stopped working on it. Kinda stupid because I spend quite some time working on it. Good luck with your endeavour.

That's pretty cool. I notice you have both a public and private option for users. We're sticking to making everything public for now for network effects, but will be keen to add a private option later on, demand pending.

Private would be huge for me. I wouldn't think of using it without it.

Re: Show HN: Pinterest for text

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Post by levng »

criley wrote: post #53
levng wrote: post #46

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is really interesting. Could you go into a little more detail about what you mean by each quote appearing slightly differently. We're trying to use the break provided by the author and the tags on the RHS to separate the quotes - but I guess this isn't really working?

The URLs are all variable size (do not truncate) and the "Browse more" content follows the variable length url. This means the Browse More section does not follow any pattern and just appears at the end of each link. Because of this, every single quote appears different. For some reason, I think that standard content like read more should be standardized to help me find easy anchors while browsing quickly. That way,…

Thanks for the suggestions and thanks even more for the illustrations too! I totally understand where you're coming from now. From your illustrations it's clear that having a few elements anchored to the bottom of the quote in fixed locations means that quotes are clearly separated. Good point.

As for the tabs, I believe we've stripped them from all the quotes. However, we do indent all paragraphs apart from the first in a similar fashion to books and long articles. Originally, we planned for people to quote much lengthier quotes (in which case it would improve readability), but I take your point that it makes it more unreadable in shorter quotes.

Re: Show HN: Pinterest for text

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Post by amazd »

Amazing how many other similar services are out there. I built http://amazd.com last year which is almost an exact replica of this service and offers much more. It uses browser extensions for a more seamless integration (FF, Chrome, safari and IE). It also lets you import books highlights. Plus you can sign up without facebook. Check out my profile for a taste: http://amazd.com/ahmad

Re: Show HN: Pinterest for text

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Post by amazd »

Fuzzwah wrote: post #51

I used to use spurl for this, then they died. I then switched to diigo, which I quite like mostly for the simple chrome extension; high light text, click the extension icon, add tags if I want, save. If someone could cut this "work flow" down to a single click I'd be happy. I don't really need to tag things....

Have you tried http://amazd.com ? I design the extension to cut down the functionality to the bare minimum as I had the same kinds of concerns with other services/products.

Re: Show HN: Pinterest for text

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Post by unholyalliance »

levng wrote: post #16
joyeuse6701 wrote: post #12

Since you're sort of competing against the vibrancy of photos, why not consider allowing typography choices?

I like that! Any typefaces you would propose in particular? Not sure if you noticed, but we've used two typefaces on the current version of the site: Adobe Caslon Pro and Proxima Nova.

use the google open fonts.

Re: Show HN: Pinterest for text

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Post by unholyalliance »

It's a neat app, but for me, I probably prefer copy paste as a note, then going through the hassle of signing up. What benefit am I missing?

Culturally, I think that sites like pinterest tend to get people to develop a hoarding habit. You hoard all your photos, or to-do projects, or in this case quotes with little thought to their use. How do you eventually revisit these quotes or do you ever? Maybe it's helpful to offload the brain's responsibility of remembering 'memorable' quotes (irony), but you're never going to impress anyone by reciting a beautiful poem off from your phone.

Re: Show HN: Pinterest for text

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Post by DoublePlusWill »

criley wrote: post #53
levng wrote: post #46

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is really interesting. Could you go into a little more detail about what you mean by each quote appearing slightly differently. We're trying to use the break provided by the author and the tags on the RHS to separate the quotes - but I guess this isn't really working?

The URLs are all variable size (do not truncate) and the "Browse more" content follows the variable length url. This means the Browse More section does not follow any pattern and just appears at the end of each link. Because of this, every single quote appears different. For some reason, I think that standard content like read more should be standardized to help me find easy anchors while browsing quickly. That way,…

This is a great response. Just wanted to chime in and say I also much prefer the EDIT3 version to the current webpage. Look nice and separates the quotes very well. Seeing as how the main point of quotes tends to be to read them I would guess there might be less on the side of link following and making them small under there will also make the formatting look more consistent with different size urls.

Re: Show HN: Pinterest for text

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Post by Fuzzwah »

levng wrote: post #52
Fuzzwah wrote: post #51

I used to use spurl for this, then they died. I then switched to diigo, which I quite like mostly for the simple chrome extension; high light text, click the extension icon, add tags if I want, save. If someone could cut this "work flow" down to a single click I'd be happy. I don't really need to tag things....

A single click - point taken. Do you find yourself referring much to what you save? Do you search through them much or have the need to categorise them? Just trying to work out the different customer needs! Thanks!

My "workfow" for this is such:

While surfing around the internet I find interesting things. I high light a section of text and add it to my diigo list. I then have system which sucks in the rss feed of my diigo list and combines it with a bunch of other rss feeds (youtube and vimeo favourites, my wordpress blog, etc) to populate a website: http://fuzzyslogic.com

I only occasionally search back through my diigo list. I use tags to allow me to filter content on the fl.com site.

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