Somehow it is hard for me to find any comments I make in Hypothes.is (h.) on the annotations of others. If I don’t remember on which annotation I commented it even becomes impossible. If someone else has responded to my comment, I get an e-mail with a link and that is the only reliable way I know to retrieve my own comments. H. help files don’t seem to mention it.
I would expect any comments I make to appear in my own overview of annotations, but they don’t.
Here’s a comment I made on an annotation by another user (screenshot below).
Notice I tagged the comment with ‘zettelkasten’.
The comment does not appear in my general overview of annotations I made, although it is in itself an annotation.
The comment also does not appear when searching my own profile using the tag I added to the comment.
I see Chris Aldrich filed the same issue, last February, but got no response. I added my own comment there to perhaps make the issue visible again.
@ton what a strange problem! So if you’re not actively exporting your comments right after you’re written them down, they’re effectively lost? That’s disappointing.
I have often considered using h. over Instapaper for some webpages that don’t render well in Instapaper. But something has always held me back. I suppose this adds to that pile.
@nitinkhanna yes, if it’s a comment on someone else’s annotation. Annotations I make on an article are all accounted for, but if I reply to an existing annotation by another user I can only revisit them if I remember where I made them, or if it got a reply in which case I have an e-mail alert set.
@ton Ah! So it’s like a comment on a random blog – you’ll essentially never see it again…
@nitinkhanna not really as those annotations, comments and replies all live within hypothes.is and are tied to my account, but the effect is the same yes.
Ton Zijlstra mentioned this article on zylstra.org.