About annotate.foo
annotate.foo is a browser extension that lets you highlight text and attach notes to anything you read on the web. The saved highlights and annotations accumulate into a personal knowledge base, so you can return to what you marked later instead of hunting through tabs and bookmarks. The directory tagline adds that it also works across PDFs.
The vendor's homepage text was minimal when this entry was prepared, so details such as sync options, export formats and pricing are not described here. annotate.foo is a proprietary product listed under note taking and productivity tools.
Key features
- Highlight text on web pages
- Attach notes to highlights
- Personal knowledge base of annotations
- Chrome browser extension
Good fit for
- →Saving highlights while researching online
- →Keeping notes from articles and PDFs
- Tags
- annotation
- highlighting
- chrome-extension
- note-taking
- knowledge-base
annotate.foo: questions and answers
- What is annotate.foo used for?
- annotate.foo is a Chrome extension for highlighting text and adding notes on web pages and PDFs, building a personal knowledge base from your reading. It is a good fit for saving highlights while researching online, and keeping notes from articles and PDFs.
- Is annotate.foo open source?
- No. annotate.foo is proprietary (closed-source) software. In the Note Taking category, open-source options include Org-remark, AFFiNE and Logseq.
Open-source alternatives to annotate.foo
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