[darkwizard42]

Nice! This sounds similar to SoundCloud which allows for comments attached to timestamps (great for music, “what a chord”, “the drop here!”)

[ignoramous]

...and medium blog posts with highlights.

[qqn]

I wish we could combine all this stuff together regardless of media. I'd use it in a heartbeat to curate class notes and recorded lectures! Particularly with a community this would be awesome, harnessing everyone's highlighting to pull out a veritable "best of" the course, without losing any context!

[ignoramous]

If you do most of your research in-browser, you should look at u/burtonator's https://getpolarized.io/

[qqn]

This program is wonderful, I regularly use it for highlighting and annotating PDFs. Just imagine this with a SoundCloud-like "highlighter/annotator" for AV files thrown in the mix.

[zhte415]

There was once a thing called Google Wave which would have got pretty close in it's proto form, and had it continued being developed probably would have allowed this and more.

[qqn]

Yes, just it would house all my thoughts on someone else's computer. That's a big deal-breaker for me.