literal VS Infinity-For-Reddit

Literal (version 1.1.31-foss): Capture annotations, sources, and knowledge from text that you read.

I've recently come across Literal which makes me share notes or annotations which I want to save for later. It has tag functions too. Maybe this can help.

There's been some good writing on the general failure of "Hypertext books" (e.g. the first couple of paragraphs here [0]). I personally think this stems from some of the reasons that underlie some of those that you outline - books published on the web simultaneously try to be skeuomorphic in retaining the physical book metaphor (organized linearly, mostly static and plain text, etc), while still losing some of the real-world effects of the physical medium (being able to intuitively understand progress, markup, etc). The way that we publish and read text actually hasn't changed much, even though the target medium has of course changed dramatically, and as a result you end up with arguably the worst of both worlds. E-readers try to side step the problem by extending the book metaphor even further, but text on the web doesn't have that privilege.

I'm working on a product, Literal [1], that aims to solve some of your specific problems, specifically providing for a way to annotate and add notes to web content and enabling some degree of source management. My ambition is to move on to solve some of the other problems you raise as well. If you have an Android device and are interested in trying it out, I'd love to connect!

[0] https://subpixel.space/entries/open-transclude/

[1] https://literal.io/

Along these lines, I'm building an annotation management system, Literal, that fulfills some of your asks, specifically around collecting and annotating articles. It also does source management, and has a tagging system that would let you set up "to read" and "have read" lists. It doesn't yet do audio annotation but that's definitely on my list of things to add. It's Android only at the moment but I'd love to connect with you (or anyone else) that is interested in trying it out.

Thanks! I created an issue to track your idea of making tags more visually distinctive. The app right now is very weighted towards information capture, and I'm actively working on improving organization functionality so I think this idea goes right in with that theme.

Open source (github) and natively implements the W3C Web Annotation Data Model, meaning your data is safe and portable.

Infinity (reddit client) If you use reddit a lot this app offers you the most seamless experience You can customize your feed with filters, themes and more to tailor your reading experience No ads! What I like most is the "Hide Read Posts" which allows you to easily check new posts (no infinite scrolling anymore)

You can get it on the play store or its github

Reddit → Infinity♥️

The code is available https://github.com/Docile-Alligator/Infinity-For-Reddit if one really really wants to customise it.

It's Open Source and FOSS after all and everyone can change the code directly without having to use ReVanced.

Hello HN!

I'm building https://rings.social in response to the Reddit API changes.

My goal is to add a compatibility layer for Reddit clients, so that the switch to Rings will include the already existing apps (Sync, RIF, Apollo, Boost, Infinity, ...).

To try it out on your own, you can compile a version of Infinity for Reddit [1] by doing a one line change [2] that uses either https://api.rings.social or your own backend running on your network.

Please, be aware, the project is still work in progress - you're free to contribute to it and send PRs. You can also help us shape the future of the project via GitHub, email or Slack. By commenting on this thread you'll already help shape it.

[1]: https://github.com/Docile-Alligator/Infinity-For-Reddit

[2]: https://github.com/Docile-Alligator/Infinity-For-Reddit/blob...

RedReader (and potentially Infinity) was granted free API access thanks to the app itself also being free (and more importantly open source) ;

Sent from [Infinity for Reddit](https://github.com/Docile-Alligator/Infinity-For-Reddit. Shame on spez.)