"My personal situation involves web content, pdfs, Kindle books, and ideas that pop into my head. Services may not cover all of these sources."

"Does a service have a way to identify others with interests I can describe who might be willing to share with me? This is presently a big issue for me."

"You can connect with other individuals, but how do you find them? This is the classic network problem new social platforms face. The platform can offer better opportunities than existing services, but the inferior existing service has existing connections among individuals that are more valuable than the capabilities of the service itself."

"The features I like allows search of public content highlighted by others using tags. Tags can be used to find the public content stored by others and finding these resources allows you to find others to follow."

"There is no need (or requirement if you see this as a problem) in negotiating whether someone will be a collaborator so the issue of creating a personal social network is a lot easier."

"At the general level, I imagine what I am trying to do is to create bi-directional linkages between products. Those products include the original source material, stand-alone notes, and my original document that is intended to be shared with others."

"I want to create sources in the process of writing that have value to me over time and not just for one project."

"I make use of digital tools and digital information sources to achieve these goals."

"One concept that has proven useful in how I have come to think about and describe my workflow is that of context."

"The highlights and notes exist within the context of the original sources."

"So, at a later point in time, the link associated with a smart note can be used to return to the original document and the location within this document associated with a smart note."

"By the way, the definition of a smart note is an idea that is understandable on its own."

"Finally, I use the Smart notes typically generated from multiple original sources to write a product (typically a blog post at this stage of my career)."

"As one moves through the sequence, there is less reliance on the context of the previous source and a greater focus on my own interpretation and speculation."

"Because of the time invested in accumulating many annotated pdfs and other products over time, the use of iCloud provides me some measure of security for the products I generate."

"I have used Zotero, but I prefer a product specific to Apple called Highlights because it is less complicated to use and just seems more consistent."

"Highlighting and annotation are processes that involve context as both processes connect a personal addition at a specific location within the source text."

"There are options for the format in which this file is created and one is markdown."

"One of the core benefits of a markdown text file is that it will not eventually age out of usefulness."

"Both Zotero and Highlights embed information about the location of highlights and notes within the original document."

"So, when a note is stored in Obsidian exported from one of these highlighting and annotation tools, a link will be included that will allow the Obsidian user to Zotero or Highlights and show the original text in which the highlight or note was embedded."

"As I write something like this blog post, I use mostly the notes I have saved in Obsidian."

"I wondered why you could view your own highlights within a service and yet not share these highlights."

"Does a service have a way to identify others with interests I can describe who might be willing to share with me?"

"You can connect with other individuals, but how do you find them? This is the classic network problem new social platforms face."

"The platform can offer better opportunities than existing services, but the inferior existing service has existing connections among individuals that are more valuable than the capabilities of the service itself."

"The features I like allows search of public content highlighted by others using tags."

"Tags can be used to find the public content stored by others and finding these resources allows you to find others to follow."

"that different from many of the other services Glass by the way likes to describe itself as a Social Web highlighting platform"

"one that has become important to me is um how I go about finding others that I might want to share my notes with and I might want to view their notes and and highlights"

"okay I have my own notes I have my own highlights how do I connect with others who have similar interests and would be willing to share what what they have found"

"I could show you more notes and annotations if I opened it up but what I'm most interested in showing you is this person has tagged"

"these entries and you can start um using these tags you can use them directly to find related information"

"what I'm more interested in is showing you how I might use these tags to uh connect with with other individuals now these tags are sometimes called topics"

"things that I have attached um to the highlights and notes that I have contributed uh to to Glass"

"I can see you know actually other people's stuff too related and they have tagged their their content"

"be publicly available because you make that commitment when you use this service"

"my point is you can get beyond your own insights in your own interests by by either identifying um similar content based on these tags that are added or you can use these tags to you know search through the entries associated"

"with that tag and find other individuals who maybe are reading and commenting on related content and follow them so that's glass and that's why I I find it to be of unique value"

"The video also explains what I have found to be a unique opportunity with this online service to locate and connect with the content others have identified that is similar to my own interests."

"The idea here is that one can expand personal reading/viewing experiences by processing the content highlighted and notes on similar topics added by others."