Toward the End of a Digital Project: Reflections on Starting Over

This issue is probably more common than I think.

Over the past year I’ve been working on an ambitious digital project: to modify a digital annotation tool, hypothes.is, so that the user can highlight text in multiple colors, rather than just yellow. While that doesn’t sound very ambitious, the theoretical underpinnings of the project and technical obstacles involved have made it quite complex.

[Moreover] The closer I get to the end, the more I want to go back to the beginning.

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