new user here, thank Cory Doctorow! Here’s a question about best practices.
I save a lot of quotes and snippets in DayOne (https://dayoneapp.com/), both from my laptop and from the iPhone. I chose that option years ago because each snippet is saved with a reference.
Doesn’t work with NewsBlur, though. The quote is there, but no reference. As of now I’m sending the text to InstaPaper, find the quote, and save it to DayOne.
Anybody else tries to do similar things? What’s the best approach here? I use DayOne for years, so it would not be easy to give up on that system.
I’d love to help support your system of saving notes. What are you looking to have NewsBlur also send with the quote? When you save to Instapaper, it’s sending the story url, text, and title. Shouldn’t that be enough?
I’m about to deploy a big new discover feature and it has a lot of additional sharing services, so I’d be happy to add first-class support for DayOne so you can send directly to it, but I would need a url that i can send stories to.
I looked through the DayOne website but it’s not clear how I can get data into their system through a URL or by sending you to their site with pre-filled content.
from InstaPaper it sends the quote, then the title of the post, then the link to the post, plus a line that says “via Instapaper”. From NewsBlur it’s just the quote.
I use the “share” option. I assume sharing to DayOne does only show up when one installs the software. Sharing does work from every source, but differently. Sometimes the button is inline, sometimes on top or bottom of the app. Sometimes the source is included (Kindle), sometimes not (that’s why I preferred InstaPaper for articles).
Apple Books is the only app I use that doesn’t offer a “share” option. Instead, I can share via email to DayOne, which works as it includes the title & link. Now if I try it with NewsBlur, only the quote shows up.
No idea how it works, but maybe it’s possible to add title & link to every sharable option?
Ah-ha, you want to share excerpts, not the whole article. @dejal, how hard would it be to include the story title and url in the excerpt Share button? That’s a native control but we might be able to include more data in that share.
Unfortunately, I don’t see any way to customize the Share… from selected text in the web view. There doesn’t seem to be any delegate callback for that.
I might be able to replace the Share… command with a custom implementation, though a quick experiment wasn’t encouraging. Feel free to add an issue for this if you want me to investigate further.
Yes. NewsBlur has a custom share if you long-press on a story in the list and choose Send This Story To…; it will include the title and URL in that situation (depending on where it’s sending it). But the Share… menu item for selected text in the web view (of the story) doesn’t offer that affordance.
