Wordmark
I started working on Wordmark as a try-a-whole-bunch-of-things project, whose idea was inspired by Instapaper. Often, I have a word I come across while reading, and I want to remember it. But then, naturally, I don’t. Enter Wordmark.
Highlight a word, click a bookmarklet, get a definition, and get it added to your queue. Go through and revisit it later, and mark it off when you’ve learned it. And occasionally, just occasionally, it’ll pop back up to remind you of itself.
The tiny app is built on CodeIgniter, uses MongoDB for storage, interfaces with the Wordnik API for definitions, and utilizes JSONP for cross-domain bookmarkleting.
I’ve been thinking of revisiting it lately and porting it to Rails + Backbone.js, so keep an eye out for a possible future for it there.
