@ggnall Utlimately we want LINER to work on Kindle, Google Books, and basically everywhere. You can highlight PDF files here - http://getliner.com/upload
"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."
@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.
@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...
@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
@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 Currently, we do not support Kindle. LINER primarily works on websites (Wikipedia, NYT, Medium...) , apps (Flipboard, Twitter, Pocket...), PDF files, and much more.
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.
@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/
@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
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
@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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
@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.
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