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Asterisk Magazine
I love the design of this magazine, the simple colours & design (as well as their ethos), but one little feature particularly is super intriguing!
On any article page, if you highlight a block of text, an asterisk will appear which will let you bookmark that chunk of text — entirely locally. It stores the data in your browser's DB, so there's no data going back to the magazine about what the most highlighted section is, which is always nice.
I haven't explored this feature a lot, but I'd be interested in exploring whether the highlights can survive edits of the article? What referencing mechanism they use for storing the locations of the highlights? (Is it a CFI?) Can you manually export your highlights later, in a format that allows for citations? It's all quitr exciting.