[HN Gopher] How to Annotate Everything
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How to Annotate Everything
Author : Tomte
Score : 100 points
Date : 2022-12-27 10:03 UTC (12 hours ago)
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| oidar wrote:
| Any ideas on annotating video and audio? Looking for something on
| a mac.
| s3000 wrote:
| 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.
| rollinDyno wrote:
| I 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.
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| 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.
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| 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.
| leephillips wrote:
| His hack for annotating paper books is brilliant.
| reactspa wrote:
| 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.
| asdfqwertzxcv wrote:
| This is similar to what you can do in the readwise app. It's
| been excellent!
| codetrotter wrote:
| Same here. It seems like a combination of both would be quite
| optimal.
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| 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.
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| That would solve both of the problems he mentioned:
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| > 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.
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| 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.
| gofreddygo wrote:
| I go midway there.
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| I stick in one a4 size folded paper in each book I am reading.
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| 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.
| kixiQu wrote:
| One can use hypothes.is on mobile Safari with the bookmarklet. I
| didn't really expect it was going to work, but it does.
| dredmorbius wrote:
| 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.
| wolverine876 wrote:
| Two important specifications (for me) for annotations:
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| 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.
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| I don't know anything that does #2. #1 is only available in PDFs
| (and especially PDF/A), afaik.
| Eddy_Viscosity2 wrote:
| A missing one I use is zotero. You can take a snapshot of the
| webpage and add notes and link related content.
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| 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.
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| Of course the final advantage of zotero is that you can then
| easily cite things, which was its main purpose.
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| https://www.zotero.org/
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| http://zotfile.com/
| dredmorbius wrote:
| Discussed extensively 3 years ago (76 comments):
| <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21635012>
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| At which time I had Things To Say:
| <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21661868>
| warpech wrote:
| 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.
| CallMeJim wrote:
| Seconded - it handles EPUBs also, which really makes it
| valuable for me.
| dbodin11 wrote:
| Hey there! Creator of Kontxt.io here, which was listed on the
| site. Quick correction.
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| - 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...
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| 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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