Early December I blogged about wanting to build a stronger habit of bookmarking and annotating in Hypothes.is (which sends everything on to my notes in Obsidian). Over the past month that has worked out nicely, with steady additions to my bookmarks and annotations, unlike before.

In that early December posting I mentioned wanting to fix two things:

• A way to bookmark and annotate from inside my feedreader, in parallel to other things like posting to my site here, or to my Mastodon account. That now works.
• A way to reliably bookmark from my mobile to Hypothes.is

Today I made a first version of tool to allow me to share to Hypothes.is from mobile. I reused the same code I made for posting within my feedreader, but with added precautions and checks because it needs to live on the open web to function.

The reason I wanted to build my own tool is that one way of doing this, through a proxy server run by Hypothes.is, will be switched off by February. The suggested replacement for mobile somehow doesn’t work in my mobile browser. I don’t know why, and felt it’s better anyway to try and build my own thing.

In this first iteration, it’s a regular webform served from one of my domains, that I bookmarked. While browsing online, I can copy the URL and e.g. the title of a page to the clipboard, and then open and populate the webform by selecting the bookmark, adding a comment and some tags. Hitting submit, sends it all to Hypothes.is. This works best if you have a clipboard on your mobile that can have multiple entries, so you have the material for one or more bookmarks and annotations on it.

So my second fix from last month I’ve now created. Probably I will iterate a bit on this, to see if I can reduce the number of steps involved.