What I miss in note-taking apps, like #roam, #logseq, #remnote or #obsidianmd is lack of annotation layer. We have [[page-references]], we have #tags but no way how to create annotations for a specific text within a block. Or is there something? #tft @codexeditor @cortexfutura pic.twitter.com/H4SsYGW7Ey
— CatoMinor (@CatoMinor3) November 1, 2021I use https://t.co/s8F3jI9n3M for this on top of rendered notes (in the Agora).
— In Flancia we'll meet (@flancian) November 1, 2021
Me too:
- https://forum.obsidian.md/t/using-hypothes-is-to-quickly-place-notes-into-my-digital-notebook/5010
- https://boffosocko.com/2021/07/08/hypothes-is-obsidian-hypothesidian-for-easier-note-taking-and-formatting/; or
- https://electricarchaeology.ca/2021/02/14/from-hypothesis-annotation-to-obsidian-note/
TiddlyWiki has flexible annotation primitives in a core plugin called “Dynannotate”, but they are not yet well integrated into the user experience
Interesting. So this allows for editing text/notes and annotating it at the same time?
That’s right. Annotations are expressed as a target string with an optional prefix and/or suffix for disambiguation. They are rendered as a separate clickable DOM layer so clicking them can trigger popups or navigation etc
Interesting. One day I have to explore TiddlyWiki more. I know there are many plugins, some of them making it work like Roam, but are they integrated well enough and working with annotations?
I don’t know of anything prebuilt that integrates Dynannotate, but all this stuff is fairly liquid and composable. If you’re coming to it with deep ideas about annotation you’d probably be blazing a trail and might well want to roll things together yourself – happy to help
Nice! Thank you for the pointer, will give it a try.
I don’t see a mention of the [[web annotation standard]], but the tiddler anchoring techniques could potentially be reused to provide some web annotation interoperability with e.g. @hypothes_is?
That would be great! I was aiming to be conformant with the web annotation standard section “4.2.4 Text Quote Selector”, hoping it might help subsequent interoperability.