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Eithiriel DeMerè | Language-Market Fit
LINER for iOS — The only private web highlighter with cloud sync 😺☁️️💾
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Graham Gnall
Does this work in Kindle app? I know they may have restrictions on text export. Would be a killer use case on its own.
Min Park
@ggnall Currently, LINER highlights do not work on Kindle. We'll try to make LINER highlights work on Kindle in the future.
Jinu Kim
@ggnall Utlimately we want LINER to work on Kindle, Google Books, and basically everywhere. You can highlight PDF files here - http://getliner.com/upload
Brian Woo
@ggnall Thanks for the reply! I'll let you know when Kindle integration is ready :)
Eithiriel DeMerè | Language-Market Fit
"There’s a lost art of deep-reading when transitioning to digital. The feeling of dragging your finger along pages, the accomplishment of leaving small notes on the edges of pages. A tattered book was the symbol of a well read book. While I would love to carry around three hard-cover books, I find that I’m reading more and more content on my mobile. While you could simply archive the articles that you read, sometimes you want to archive the “sentences” that you fell in love with as well. Highlighting while you read creates a history of sentences that resonated with you. An actually road-map of the words that inspired you. LINER helps bring back deep-reading. We help you remember the most important phrases through highlights, we enable more targeted communication by emphasizing and auto-focusing the screen to select passages, we filter out excessive noise so you can truly focus on what’s important."
Min Park
@nikkielizdemere Special thanks for helping us hunt LINER :)
Jinu Kim
@nikkielizdemere Thanks for hunting LINER, hope your cold gets better!
Brian Woo
@nikkielizdemere Thank you! I deeply appreciate it :)
Chris Oslund
Awesome! I have been looking for something like this for so long!
Min Park
@eighttwo_three Thanks for the feedback. Please let us know if you need any help :)
Jinu Kim
@eighttwo_three LINER was developed out of a personal need. There simply were no suitable highlighting services that synced with the cloud. So we went out to make the best highlighter in the world and Mars.
Brian Woo
@eighttwo_three And just to let you know, it's more powerful to use LINER for iOS and LINER for Chrome together (https://www.producthunt.com/post...)
Satyajeet
More and more people I know are switching to Safari! I will wait for the Safari extension if it ever comes.
Min Park
@iamdeveloper We're currently developing LINER for Safari. It should be out soon. Ultimately we're going to aggregate highlights from every platform.
Jinu Kim
@iamdeveloper We're currently focusing on Chrome (The most widely used Internet browser). We'll tackle LINER for Safari and LINER for Firefox next!
Brian Woo
@iamdeveloper I'll let you know when LINER for Safari is ready :)
Shahab Shabibi
@wcm0505 @jinukim21 @mynhpark anyway we can get notified once it's out for Safari? Really would start using it but afraid might forget to check
Jinu Kim
@shahab_21 @wcm0505 @mynhpark We'll make a waiting list so people can get notified when LINER for Safari is finished.
Ben Tossell
How does this compare to something like Highly?
Min Park
@bentossell "Highly" is primarily a social network. Your highlights are public by default. "LINER" strives to keep your highlighting as private as possible. Highlighting is innately a private activity. Which is why we give you full control over when you want to share highlighted pages. LINER is a service for you, not for your friends. Here's a blog post outlining our views on privacy vs public: https://medium.com/highlight/the...
Jinu Kim
@bentossell LINER is primarily a private highlighting tool. We only share your highlights when you "manually" press share. Here's an example of a shared page - http://lnr.li/0xMvN
Brian Woo
@bentossell LINER supports PDF files. And you can even share highlighted web pages and pdf files to your friends (even if they don't have LINER installed).
Larry Zimbler
Can liner highlight Kindle iOS app too?
Min Park
@larry_zimbler Currently, we do not support Kindle. LINER primarily works on websites (Wikipedia, NYT, Medium...) , apps (Flipboard, Twitter, Pocket...), PDF files, and much more.
Jinu Kim
@larry_zimbler We'll try to add Kindle highlight integration in the future :)
Larry Zimbler
👍
Min Park
Jinu Kim
Brian Woo
Min Park
@larry_zimbler 😀 Thanks for your support
Andrew Clark
Curious if you have developed the use case for this: I "line" articles and am able to export those to an email OR assemble a list of "lines" that I can then create a digest email for people? Would help in research, reporting, and even e-news distribution.
Min Park
@candrewclark The LINER highlights you made are sent to you in an email reminder. You can also export your highlights to Evernote and email via a link. Here's an example of a highlighted link - http://lnr.li/0xMvN/
Jinu Kim
@candrewclark LINER highlights can be exported to Evernote, email, and messenger. You can also import and highlight your Pocket/Instapaper articles~
Andrew Clark
@jinukim21 so I extend it to an email after export to those services. Gotcha
Jinu Kim
@candrewclark You can share highlighted pages via email by sending your friends a highlighted link like this - http://lnr.li/jVoOE
Min Park
@candrewclark @jinukim21 You can also send highlighted links via messenger. We're going to add Messenger, WhatsApp, and SnapChat integration in the future - http://lnr.li/ay4RV
Dardan Thaçi
Congratulations Jinu, I assume people don't know how much they need this tool...I had this idea before because I needed to revision some important reading instead of saving it on pocket. Great job, but please launch it on Android too, and make it possible to sort highlights by keywords.
Jinu Kim
One of the goals of LINER is aiding in deep reading. With the advent of mobile and social media, our concentration has been scattered. According to a recent Microsoft study our concentration is even lower than a goldfish. By using highlights, we want to return your attention. Back to you.
Min Park
@jinukim21 I find it hard to read long-form texts in one setting. So I use highlights to bookmark my place in the article.
Jinu Kim
While LINER is primarily a web highlighting service. We also provide PDF highlights. Personally I primarily read articles online, but I found that many educational institutes still use PDF files to distribute content. By enabling PDF highlights. Users can easily manage PDF file key-phrases and comments from the web. Start highlighting your PDF here - http://getliner.com/upload
Min Park
@jinukim21 Here's an example of a highlighted PDF file from the wonderufl Wait But Why - http://lnr.li/sTyMr
Jinu Kim
Growth hacking has been trending with the massive network-effect growth of Facebook, Twitter, WhatsApp, and AirBnb. However, there are times when growth-hacking goes overboard and actually becomes a nuance, like in the case of Zynga. At LINER we strive to provide a private personal highlighting space first and foremost. We don't want you to accidentally share LINER to all your friends.
Min Park
@jinukim21 I think the most annoying case is when games require you to share before starting the game. A forced growth hack can only go so far.
Jinu Kim
Highlighting while you read creates a history of the sentences you cherish. By highlighting you're able to reemphasize the sentences you fell in love with. Instead of just having a obtuse folder of interesting pages.
Min Park
@jinukim21 While I don't look back at my archived articles, I like looking back at the sentences I highlighted. My highlight timeline provides a more genuine portrayal of my reading history.
Jinu Kim
We're a productivity obsessed organization. One of our favorite productivity apps is Evernote. We primarily write documents in Evernote and share Evernote notes amongst the team. Which is why you can save your LINER highlights into Evernote. You can save your highlights, comments, article title, and original URL into Evernote with 1-click.
Min Park
@jinukim21 Just won a rocks-paper-scissor match, so having a coworker deliver my coffee :)
Jinu Kim
We want everyone to be able to use LINER for free. Which is why we opened up the core highlighting features to everyone. Anyone can highlight text, sync their highlights, and organize their highlights into folders. We only limit premium features for more enterprise users.
Brian Woo
@jinukim21 Plus, we want to make people use LINER on every platform and browser.
Jinu Kim
With LINER Premium you can use premium colors, create unlimited folders, use advanced search, and add highlight comments. You can unlock these highlighting super powers by referring LINER to 10 of your friends. You'll get 12 months of LINER Premium for free, once you refer LINER to 10 of your friends. Also each one of your referred friends will get 1 free month of LINER Premium
Brian Woo
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Jinu Kim
The current commenting system is broken. We're talking about the first sentence of the article with comments placed at the bottom of the article. Have smarter conversation over the document itself through highlight comments. Simply highlight a text and leave comments on the highlighted text. Highlight comments are great for leaving pin-point feedback on student essays.
Jinu Kim
I've always found tags to be confusing. In order to organize articles via tags not only do you have to think of the tag each time you want to sort the article, but also you have to remember the specific tag for searching through your archives as well. Tags add an unnecessary step in organizing. Which is why LINER prefers folders.
Jinu Kim
The best products seem like a toy. While Google may know there are 100 pages to index. LINER knows there are 100 pages to index and 927 sentences people are interested in.
Min Park
@jinukim21 Similar to how each person's fingerprint is different, each person's highlighting pattern is different as well.
Brian Woo
@jinukim21 In the future, AI companies like Google, Amazon will work with LINER.
Jinu Kim
There has been an explosion in information and I'm having a harder time remembering. When I highlight a text I get to re-read the text, have the sentence saved to LINER, exported to Evernote, and get reminded in a LINER newsletter. LINER highlights is the ultimate app for memorization. Be smarter. Use LINER.
Min Park
@jinukim21 Personally I'm a big fan of the Evernote Export feature. I export all my highlights to Evernote. So I can use the highlights as a reference to write blog posts.
Brian Woo
@jinukim21 If you guys are interested in Evernote integration in LINER, please read this blog post: (https://medium.com/highlight/eve...)