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Ask HN: Browser plugin to annotate HN users?
1 point by andrewcooke on Oct 10, 2012 | hide | past | favorite | 5 comments
Is there a plugin or similar that lets you associate (private) notes with particular users? I'd like such a tool, and I imagine it could be good for the site - reputations associated with IDs would become more persistent.

I believe something similar exists for Reddit, fwiw.

(Even better would be some kind of global tool that lets you do this across sites, when identities can be matched, but I imagine that's asking too much (I've wanted this for years - http://www.acooke.org/cute/Automatemy0.html)).




Not for HN, specifically, but an app I'm developing functions as a annotation-sharing platform across the web: moot-it.appspot.com

Yes, I do realize that .crx plugins can no longer be installed via the web (I don't know when Chrome made that change, but it's a relatively recent change), so if you're interested in trying it out, let me know (e-mail in my profile) and I can send you a unpackaged version to install in developer mode to test out.


You just download the CRX and then drag it into an open Extensions tab. This works, but is completely unintuitive.


Did not know that at all, thanks :O!


for what i want, it needs to be private, and associated with user tags (which means some logic to identify usernames). i think it's very unlikely your code (or any general annotation-sharing program) will do that, but thanks for the offer!


Actually, private sharing is in the works :). Once most of the core functionality is in, I'll be posting a Show HN topic for it! Re: Associating with users, perhaps you can utilise the #hashtag functionality to tag other users by their HN username? (Yes, another functionality that is "under development"... Heh) Or did you want to see this be done automatically for HN users?




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