Tribes

Maker

👋 Hi everybody! Thanks @eriktorenberg! Andrew from Highly here. Highlights are the killer way to share stories with friends (online and off). And since we mostly read on our phones, we need to highlight there, too. So we’re pleased as heck to share Highly for iOS, version one, here today. Now you can highlight wherever you’re reading, including *within* darn near every app on your phone. (See also: Highly for web, Chrome and Safari). Read our POV on How to Highlight the Internet: https://medium.com/highlight-to-... And a pseudo-thinkpiece on how the highlight layer will make the web more useful: https://medium.com/highlight-to-... We’re stoked for your questions, comments and ideas!

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9yr ago

Prateek Keshari

EcommerceTech.io

@covrter This is great, Andrew. Would love to try this on Android!

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9yr ago

Tibor Martini

Movetodon

@covrter Hi Andrew, have you heard about https://this.cm/ and that the service is shutting down next month? Since your aims are pretty similar (making it easier to recommend readworthy articles), it would be interesting if both services would collab.

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9yr ago

Eric Wuebben

Highly

Maker

We hear you @prateekkesharii 👍 No news on that right now unfortunately.

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9yr ago

Eric Wuebben

Highly

Maker

@ungeruehrt @covrter We loved This! Just recently chatted with @agolis, excited to learn more from them.

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9yr ago

Andrei Oprisan

@covrter any chance the highlighter itself will be open sourced? more so interested on the web. I've been working on a highlighter for the web that could be plugged in to any site, to be open sourced, but still have a ways to go before I can put it out there for folks to use. Great product by the way, very slick!

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9yr ago

Cat Noone

Stark

I'm *so* excited for this. This was something I wanted to build about 1.5y ago and even kicked off the very prelim designs for it but pushed aside. To see this is honestly a day-maker. I spend so much time ticked at the difficulties of finding hacks to highlight, screenshot and share gems of text I think others would be interested in. Not to mention the difficulty that comes with an inability to consistently highlight in certain apps. Seriously huge kudos on this. I'm happy Highly exists! It's beautiful.

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9yr ago

Courter

Tribes

Maker

@imcatnoone Cat! Wow! Thank you! (Blushing). We're just getting started ...

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9yr ago

Cat Noone

Stark

@covrter for sure! The only thing that would prevent me from consistently using it is how long it takes to convert each article to be ready for highly. Also, the conversion % screen not automatically dismissing once it's finished was slightly funky. I expected it to go away but then realized I have to X out myself. Aside from that, it's awesome.

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9yr ago

Courter

Tribes

Maker

@imcatnoone Totally agree. We already have some things in mind to speed up — and clean up — that flow. Every little millisecond is friction!

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9yr ago

Niv Dror

VC Puzzle

I love the way Medium's highlighting feature works. With highly, you can use it anywhere on the web + a new iPhone app 📱🚀

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9yr ago

Courter

Tribes

Maker

@nivo0o0 Yes! The Medium highlighter is delicious.

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9yr ago

Leo Vogel

@nivo0o0 I wish Apple allowed developers to build add-ons to the system highlight pop-over UI like shown in this animation. As it is now, you have to tap Share, then wait for the sharesheet to slide up, then scroll to the app you want, then tap the app.

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9yr ago

Courter

Tribes

Maker

@theleovogel Leo! This is actual footage :) of my actual thumb in our actual app. The flow you describe is required to enable Highly, and once you've done that, the Highly "!" appears in your context/popover menu.

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9yr ago

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