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Re:Genius laid off a bunch of its engineers by pnathan on Wednesday March 15, 2017 @05:41PM (#13880070)
They are the best lyrics site on the net, period. The annotations are... not always that great.

The annotations that journalists do on speeches can be super useful.

But in general... I'd like to have a portable system to annotate PDFs, textfiles, etc. Local files. Take notes and cross-link against multiple files & multiple notes.

I've been making notes sporadically for a decade about such a thing, with occasional bits of code that don't really solve the problem. Currently I'm playing with a neo4j backed proto-prototype. :: shrug ::

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Re:Genius laid off a bunch of its engineers by mythrwy on Wednesday March 15, 2017 @11:15PM (#13882179)
It isn't local but something like this?

https://hypothes.is/

http://docdrop.org/

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Re:Genius laid off a bunch of its engineers by pnathan on Friday March 17, 2017 @01:26AM (#13891717)
Yeah, those are sibling ideas, I think.
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Re:Genius laid off a bunch of its engineers by johnpettus on Thursday March 16, 2017 @03:54AM (#13883289)
Isn't that the concept behind Evernote? (Not a user, but that's what I always thought it's thing was.)
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