What’s It Like? Genius is a tool for annotating text online. An outgrowth of Rap Genius (a longtime tool for collecting and annotating rap lyrics online), Genius lets users annotate and analyze texts ...

Ever since I started using Obsidian to collate my digital research, I have continued to discover ways to maximize its functionalities. Lately, I’ve transitioned to Obsidian for handling PDFs and ...

Is a street preacher the right metaphor for every little blog online? UPDATE: Since this story was published, both Genius and Hypothesis have moved to undermine abuse via web annotation using their ...

The last time we explored Preview, OS X’s built-in document and image viewer, we discussed using it to crop and resize images, as well as how to undo those changes (see “The Power of Preview: Cropping ...

Even with a printed textbook, a highlighting marker can't do this: A free online program that allows students to annotate digitized content is helping learners analyze and debate the meaning of ...

Labeling and annotation are the foundation of context setting and the invisible backbone of AI, which are quietly shaping the ...

*Note* The interface and features of Perusall may change over time without much advance notice. Please check out their ‘Changelog‘ for updates, improvements, and fixes. Once you have material uploaded ...

Pages’ pixels might finally be better than paper. Photo: Charlie Sorrel/Cult of Mac In Pages 4.0 for iPad, you can use Apple Pencil for more than just tapping stuff. Now you can use two great new ...