When I get home you'll be getting another 5 star review. I saw the algorithm you use on the About page which was my only question. Being familiar with SRS, I'm already trusting of how SRS works, so I'm not judging the app based on "what is it supposed to do" but rather "how does it look and function".
It's well designed and easy to use which is all I could ask for for an app like this. Thanks for sharing!
Two things I've found that are both minor so I'm not "docking points" ;)
>Click the Hibou highlight button. It will be saved here until you make a highlight.
I think you mean "Highlights you make will be saved here."?
And if I activate Hibou on a page, I can't seem to disable the highlighter without refreshing the page. Pressing Alt+H doesn't get rid of it and neither does clicking the button to deactivate the highlighting cursor. This is an annoyance, but it's unlikely that I'll ever press Alt+H without the intent of highlighting something - so isn't an issue I'd run into day to day.
Clicking onto the page to close the app dialogue and then re-clicking the icon to bring open the options shows that the highlighter reactivates itself. Upon reactivation or clicking the bubble I expect it to remain disabled until I activate it again.
Awesome. Thanks for the review and thoughts on design.
>Click the Hibou highlight button. It will be saved here until you make a highlight.
Here refers to the Reading list. If you click the highlight button, but don't make any highlights, Hibou will save that page in the reading list (the left-most icon in app.hibou.com). That way, you can go back and highlight it later. You won't get any reminders or notifications until you create your first highlight on that page, at which point it goes from your reading list to your queue (middle clock icon), and of course the highlights are saved. I'll make that clearer.
Thanks for pointing out the disabling bug. If you only use the keyboard shortcut, enabling and disabling should work fine. If you use the popup, disabling seems broken. I'll fix that today.
Logging in allows you to
* see your highlights on another device (which means another computer right now, but will soon mean your phone) by going to app.gethibou.com and logging in with the same gmail account.
* Store an unlimited number of highlights. Everything is saved locally if you don't log in, and you're limited to 5mb of local storage in an extension, so eventually you'll run out of space (you'll get a warning if you're running out of space).
* Sort all highlights by tags. As I roll out features, sometimes things need to be coded on the server and within the extension. In those cases, I'll write the code on the server first, so by logging in you'll get access to newer features. Sorting by tag is the first of those features.
Thanks for trying it out. Hope you like it.