How to Annotate Everything
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How to Annotate Everything
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#2His hack for annotating paper books is brilliant.
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#3His hack for annotating paper books is brilliant.
Agreed. A way I do it is to take a picture of a page, and then use my phone's image editor to add the annotation directly to the photo.
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#5A missing one I use is zotero. You can take a snapshot of the webpage and add notes and link related content.
For pdfs, you can use a zotfile addon where you can highlight, add notes, etc. using your favourite pdf veiwer and zotfile will then grab those highlights and notes and put them into the zotero entry for that file. You can then view these without having to open the pdf and search through them. This is particularly handy for when the pdf is large.
Of course the final advantage of zotero is that you can then easily cite things, which was its main purpose.
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#6His hack for annotating paper books is brilliant.
Agreed. A way I do it is to take a picture of a page, and then use my phone's image editor to add the annotation directly to the photo.
Same here. It seems like a combination of both would be quite optimal.
Prepare some strips of paper like this guy does, and make notes on them while reading. But then, also always take pictures of the page, with your strip of notes in the picture.
That would solve both of the problems he mentioned:
> The downside of this is that in order to annotations to make sense, it requires a physical copy of exact same book. Another one is that it doesn't have automatic timestamps, which somewhat bothers my #lifelogging OCD.
If you take a picture of the page and the strip of notes then you get the timestamp for free. And by including the page of text in the picture you have that context preserved as well.
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#7His hack for annotating paper books is brilliant.
I go midway there.
I stick in one a4 size folded paper in each book I am reading.
Thoughts, references, names, dates, quotes, aha moments all go into that one page. Usually read a chapter, re-read it and then take notes, not while reading.
Page goes into a binder when I complete or drop the book. I like the index of one page summaries I've built up this way. Also nice to see my thought processes evolving.
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#8Hey there! Creator of Kontxt.io here, which was listed on the site. Quick correction.
- It's actually free. - Still under development. - It has a CMS and social network to organize, share, and discover with others. - Anyone can add the annotative collaboration features directly to their own site with a single line of code to boost engagement and sharing to grow their audience.
New feature: Stylize your highlights and add a promotion to every share. Perfect for fundraisers and charitable donations.
Example: https://www.kontxt.io/document/d/QNebKRiN9ghcqTb1U8StSZJEwlT...
Description: I highlighted a site. Put highlights on their own page. Added a background. And added a clickable promotion (to donate to the Red Cross) with analytics to see views and clicks.
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#9I am a strong believer in taking-notes so that I don't have to face a blank canvas every time I want to start a new essay.
My issue is that when I am in "the zone", I can't write. When I am very intensely focused on a topic, I am informing my internal conversation very efficiently by skimming papers. If I interrupt that with taking notes, then I am adding unnecessary friction that slows me down.
When I write notes, I feel that my ideas race ahead of my typing speed, and my working memory is not large enough to keep these ideas in a buffer. This is an issue I have had my whole life but only recently noticed it is an impediment and only now can I describe it.
All that being said, even if this wasn't an issue, there's a trade-off between how quickly you move across text and how much of it you store on notes. There's an optimal point, of course, and this can be raised with technology, focus, and practice.
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#10Two important specifications (for me) for annotations:
1. Long term preservation (most important): I want to use the annotations in 10 years, 30 years, etc. Using them means they must be readable and be connected to the object they annotate.
2. Migration through updates to the object. That is, if I annotate a PDF of a book, and later a new revision or edition comes out, I'd like my notes to automatically transfer. I know there are some cases where that is difficult - e.g., if the annotated object isn't present in the revision - but most notes can be migrated.
I don't know anything that does #2. #1 is only available in PDFs (and especially PDF/A), afaik.