I feel wedded to Inoreader/Pocket at this point in time. However, I might spin up a new instance of WordPress and test it there. Can see myself using it to support deeper research one day.
💬 Chris Aldrich on Press Forward
Author Chris Aldrich (Chris Aldrich | BoffoSocko)PressForward was originally intended for journalists and news organizations to aggregate new content, add it to their newsroom workflow, and then use it to publish new content. From what I can see it’s also got a nice following in academia as a tool for aggregating content for researchers focused on a particular area.
It only took a minute or two of looking at PressForward to realize that it had another off-label use case: as a spectacular replacement for read-later type apps!
Chris, I stumbled upon your post on Press Forward whilst searching around your site. I really like the sound of it, especially in regards to better owning bookmarks and reading. Is that what you use for your marginalia?
Reply to @ChrisAldrich on Press Forward as an alternative to third party feed readers collect.readwriterespond.com/aldrich-press-… #indieweb
I do use PressForward for a fair amount of marginalia and highlighting, but it typically tends to be for more academic research work which I hide as private posts on the back end of my site and which aren’t visible to the public. […] boffosocko.com/2016/12/31/pre…
I was actually thinking about more academic research too. It reminded me of a post by Ian Guest, in which he reflects upon the challenge of managing his PhD.
Thanks for the example. I can see what you mean by the CSS, it would be nicer to differentiate between the original text and commentary using size of font maybe? I assume that there is a limit as to what text you can drag in? Assuming you can’t just drag in PDF’s etc? Is it also limited by the copyright status of the original?
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, I really like the sound of using Press Forward to aggregate. I remember Alec Couros talking about combining Tagboard and a unique hashtag to keep track of his students work. I have also been intrigued with the work Alan Levine does associated with Feed WordPress. I wonder where Press Forward sits with that and the possibilities that it allows.
Kimberly Hirsh provides her step-by-step guide to writing a literature review. Along with Ian O’Byrne’s process and Chris Aldrich’s discussion of Press Forward, these posts offer some useful tips to support academic writing.
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I am really intrigued by the work going on this space. I think that the addition of webmentions and micropub specifications would be a huge positive.
I really must dig in, as I can see this being a replacement for Diigo, which I have progressively moved away from this year. Although Press Forward might offer some of this functionality too.