The social media landscape from Twitter and Mastodon to Instagram and TikTok
has, for better or worse, centralized on sharing text highlights and quotes as
images rather than as plain text.
Now I can share my highlights easily as images on social media!
I like to share my highlights from across the web, which is why I publish
topic-specific RSS feeds for people to
subscribe to.
However, one of the features that I've been missing for a while now on
Notado is exporting screenshots for social sharing. This
weekend I finally set aside some time to make this feature a reality.
Creating the View
I have a lot of qualms with Tailwind, but it's hard to deny that it's a very
convenient choice for a view that is largely isolated from the rest of a web
application, especially one that exists primarily as an export view.
I was quickly able to get a design together on
play.tailwindcss.com, which I then moved over
to a T…