@jongold Yes, it's absolutely planned. Because a) you own your highlights and you can put them wherever you'd like, and b) #realtalk why trust the ideas you care most about to a startup? The current Export (nice sleuthing!) is just a start.

Usage is the greatest compliment. Highly loves @nayafia :)

Hi Hunters! Thanks for Hunting us, @staringispolite! The product choice was easy, and the technology was less so. Our MVP approach was to take slurp stories into a “reader view” and enable highlighting there. Despite the benefits (like making @paulg’s site readable, heyo!), the experience was jarring and felt slow. It was immediately clear that highlighting needed to happen on the original piece. It’s instant and intuitive. Getting it work was neither. Hey @wuebben, tell us about the tech!

@staringispolite I love the way you pose the reading/saving/sharing question because that’s an useful way to think about it. Reading! We want stories worth our time, and there are more of those than ever. Friends’ highlights are a great lens for the constant choice: should I read on? Saving (Time Shifting) is a superpower! Snooze stories until you can give them attention. Also super: because my Pocket list is paired with Highly, by the time I’m ready to read ‘em, I can often start with friends highlights (see above). Saving (Keep a Copy) is hard! People fill their Evernotebooks and Dropboxes then never revisit them. What we think we’ll want in the future and what we do is … not the same. Maybe Timehop is the most interesting thing happening there :) Sharing! Our habits are been shaped by our tools: we have links, so we share articles. But we *really* want to share ideas, so we *really* need a way to, ahem, highlight those. The rise of Tweetshots/Screenshorts/@OneShots captures this desire well.

Thanks @staringispolite for your hunt and your highlights! We learned a lot by first launching as private beta. We took the shortest tech route possible that’d enable lots of use cases early. Initially, we invited a few dozen people in and let them invite a couple more peers. While only users could make highlights, we ensured anyone could consume them, without account, from any device. Less tire kicking, more driving. Then came on-article (Chrome first). We knew on-article highlighting could ease use 10x, and we knew it was a beastly technical challenge. On the web, we can assume nothing re layout, appearance, ads, colors, etc … and article content changes more than you’d think. It’s often the case that you and I are seeing slightly different pages. URL conventions don’t exist. Many are pushing functionality into the url that has nothing to do with the content of the page. Pagination, ajax-loaded scrolling into next article, ad injections mid-story, etc. … you get the picture. Delivering any consistency across these variables has been a major accomplishment. And there’s plenty of work left to do.

@covrter Saving/Saving is such an important and too-often-overlooked distinction. As a serious reader, I use Evernote to save EVERYTHING after I've read (and annotated) it - it isn't perfect but the full-text search is unparalleled. Nothing resurfaces old knowledge quite like getting to glimpse your own annotations in (something close to) the visual context in which you originally encountered it.

@eliservescent Yes! Evernote dominates that use case. You reminded me to mention that the design decision to include some context around the Highlighted Passage itself is a big one. On Medium, for instance, they include the full paragraph (which looks great). https://medium.com/@covrter/high...

@roybahat Thanks Roy! #proudinvestee

@ptraughber Thank you Patrick! Your highlights are killer.

@covrter Also, love for the highlights from @naval's AMA http://www.producthunt.com/live/... (install Highly for Chrome above, then click link).

Cy! @saidurh Thank you. :)

@nickoneill Thanks Nick! Highly should live wherever you read, so heck yes it's coming to your phone. Highly for iOS is well underway (sign up to test it here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/...). Prototypes galore on my home screen:

@nickoneill Shoutout to @OneShot and @Medium (among others ... I could go on) who have have solved pieces of the mobile highlighting flow beautifully.

@bosefina, aka the O.G. Hunter! Thanks for helping us read amazing things. I couldn't agree more. There are so many amazing ideas / statements out there buried within each story. You've been so great at highlighting them to life. Keep selecting. Thanks.

@cgherb Highly highlights text, then produces an image you can share (like this: https://twitter.com/covrter/stat...). Check out @oneshot if you're hoping to highlight text that's already in an image.

@sungmoon Glad you noticed! *blushing*

@johnnyquachy At the moment, we require an email & password for every account. And we don't ask Facebook for your email address. But we should, and will :)

@covrter just feedback but it feels like you're taking my facebook info for something spammy (which I know you aren't). That's just he initial feeling I get. When I click a FB button on any flow I do it because it expedites my sign-up and if I experience anything else I'll feel uncomfortable.

@johnnyquachy Totally agree — it feels sketchy and slow. We'll improve this!

@nicolasegosum You are! Thanks Nicolas.

@kevinespiritu Kevin your highlighting game is so tight. Get back in the arena, my friend!

And your battled through the heavy-friction version of @highly @kevinespiritu. Hoping you love the new on-article flow. Let us know after you give it a go. Cheers!

@apr214 Thanks Alex!

@apr214! Thanks man. :)

@eliservescent Thanks so much, Elisa! TBH we've not looked much at migrations/integrations because we're focused on building a think that inspires migration first :). But I would looooove to hear some ideas about how we could play with @evernote – it's a common request with near-zero overlap among suggested executions. (Head hover bug noted!)

@eliservescent and unfortunately it seems that the highlight-to-tweet isn't working for me right now ):

Sorry about that @eliservescent! DM me and we'll get it figured out: https://twitter.com/wuebben

@covrter Off the top of my head: right now I use Diigo to highlight and then Evernote Web Clipper to save everything. If you could incorporate a Save-to-Evernote function it would save a step, though you'd need to give the option to save the whole page/article (as text, not image) rather than just the highlighted portion.

@eliservescent So you want to end up with a) all text, some of which is b) highlighted. Right? (PS: tried Evernote Clearly? Decent highlighting right in the Elephant flow there).

Thanks for checking us out @matt_cartagena! Hit us up anytime with feedback.