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How to Annotate Everything

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Re: How to Annotate Everything

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I recommend everyone who's looking for a single solution to annotating common online media to check out Readwise Reader. It just went into public beta. It can annotate Web pages in original or in a beautiful reading mode, PDFs, YouTube, and probably more things that I haven't tried yet.

Re: How to Annotate Everything

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post #13

I recommend everyone who's looking for a single solution to annotating common online media to check out Readwise Reader. It just went into public beta. It can annotate Web pages in original or in a beautiful reading mode, PDFs, YouTube, and probably more things that I haven't tried yet.

Seconded - it handles EPUBs also, which really makes it valuable for me.

Re: How to Annotate Everything

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What I am missing from tools like Hypothes.is is the ability to interact with ActivityPub accounts. There is too much frictions if others have to create a hypothes.is account before they can react to a highlight or annotation.

Re: How to Annotate Everything

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post #12

One can use hypothes.is on mobile Safari with the bookmarklet. I didn't really expect it was going to work, but it does.

If someone can explain how to use this for Firefox/Android and/or EinkBro (Android), My Dumb Friend would appreciate the pointer.

Otherwise, hypothes.is appears largely to be a server-side implementation --- that is, included into page source, not something trivially applied client-side.

Re: How to Annotate Everything

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Several useful tips in here, but I was expecting to see some strategies for using a ReMarkable with this workflow and it's a glaring omission... perhaps this site is a bit dated now?

Re: How to Annotate Everything

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A 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 particu…

Anki is great for saving notes on specific subjects

Re: How to Annotate Everything

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post #8

Hey 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…

>It has a CMS and social network to organize, share, and discover with others

What's your opinion on ActivityPub? Could you make the network compatible so that annotations can be shared on Mastodon and people with a Mastodon account can add comments to any highlight they find on Kontxt.io?

Would it be possible to export the data so that the notes, highlights and annotations can be used in case you discontinue Kontxt.io?

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