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Show HN: Smort.io - Edit, annotate and share articles easily
Hey HN, I created Smort as I wanted to highlight an article and
share it with a friend but couldn't find an easy way of doing it.
Smort lets you easily edit, annotate and share an article. To read
any article, just prepend smort.io/ before a URL in a browser. (I
recently found out that even 12ft.io/ uses the same technique).
Smort is free to use and shareable links are valid for 7 days from
creation. Permanent links will be supported soon. I'm primarily a
backend/ML engineer so had to learn all things frontend to build
Smort. I started out developing in SvelteKit and loved it but later
migrated to React & Nextjs due to better third party library
support. I have lots of ideas on how to take Smort forward and
would love for you all to use it. Please join our Discord to share
your curated articles and feedback! This is a walkthrough article
detailing everything Smort can do at the moment -
https://smort.io/demo-walkthrough. Smort's name was inspired by
the memes [1] [1]
https://www.google.com/search?q=smort+meme&tbm=isch
Author : sabr
Score : 42 points
Date : 2022-03-14 15:24 UTC (7 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (www.smort.io)
(TXT) w3m dump (www.smort.io)
| justsomeuser wrote:
| Do you plan to charge in the future?
| sabr wrote:
| Currently shared links are valid for 7 days from creation. That
| will always be free. Depending on how prohibitive it is for me
| to pay for storage, I might have to charge for creating a lot
| of permanent shared links. But most users should be able to use
| Smort for free.
|
| The bottom line is that all the upcoming features mentioned on
| the home page https://smort.io/ and a lot more won't be
| charged.
| sideproject wrote:
| Nice tool! I'm sure you're thinking of it, but are you planning
| on a Chrome extension for this? :)
|
| Speaking of articles and annotations, I've also recently launched
| a project (a little different) which allows annotate and read
| research papers (PDFs) easily if anyone is interested.
|
| https://scholars.io
| sabr wrote:
| Hey, thanks for using Smort! Yes, browsers extensions are next
| in line! Scholars.io looks nice too :)
| thumb wrote:
| Nice! Smort!
|
| I'm excited to try it out when I get off work.
| sabr wrote:
| Thank you! It would be great if you could share feedback via
| email, Discord or Twitter!
| guyzyl wrote:
| Sounds like someone is a fan of Brooklyn 99 :)
| sabr wrote:
| Haha, actually I didn't know that there are many references to
| Smort in Brooklyn 99! Will definitely check out the show :)
| Eddy_Viscosity2 wrote:
| Cool, I was trying it out but couldn't annotate. I could
| highlight and remove highlights but not add anything else. For
| example, to add _ to bold. I type '_' and nothing happens. Am I
| missing something?
| sabr wrote:
| Hey, I've pushed a new version with buttons for bold, italics,
| strike-through and underline that show up in the floating menu
| once you select text.
|
| Hopefully it's now easier for you to annotate. Let me know what
| you think of the changes :)
| sabr wrote:
| Hey, thanks for checking it out!
|
| To convert text to bold, please enclose it in two asterisks *.
| https://www.smort.io/demo-walkthrough#e00c6e0c-c2be-48e4-9f9...
| mentions how to convert to do it. To get it working on mobile
| you might need to add or delete a space at the start of end of
| the *.
|
| I should probably add a button in the text selection menu bar
| to italicize/convert it to bold directly
| Eddy_Viscosity2 wrote:
| I'm using chrome from a PC. There's a text selection menu
| bar?
|
| I got some of it working, I can add text to everything but
| the opening 'slide' with the blue background.
|
| thanks
| sabr wrote:
| Oh that should be a lot easier to use then. Sorry I think I
| didn't explain it correctly. By "text selection menu bar" I
| mean the floating action menu that shows up when you select
| any text.
|
| Yes the opening slide with the blue background is the
| article header which is fixed and can't be edited.
|
| Thanks for your feedback!
| randomluck040 wrote:
| How does snort.io compare to hypothes.is which is open source?
| sabr wrote:
| Hey, thanks for your question. A couple of points -
|
| 1) You don't need to make an account & download an extension
| for Smort
|
| 2) Ads don't show up in Smort
|
| 3) You can actually edit the article content in Smort using
| Markdown. Please see https://www.smort.io/demo-walkthrough for
| all that is possible
|
| 4) You can customize your font size, style and theme with Smort
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