https://www.fermatslibrary.com/margins

A tool for creating and sharing marginalia. Geared toward the education space, but has relatively limited UI and isn't as feature rich as Hypothes.is.

Semantic Web Tool: Hypothes.is

To find this urn address for your .pdf files and their fingerprints (particularly local/private files not otherwise hosted in the cloud):

1. Visit https://jonudell.info/h/facet/
2. Search for your Hypothes.is username (and perhaps a tag) to find the document name and annotations you made on it.
3. You should be able to click on the document title which will take you to a non-loading web page with an address that looks something like this: urn:x-pdf:1ab23cd45e678fgh9012i34j56k78l90

If others know of alternate/faster methods of finding URIs for local pdf files I'd be happy to hear about them.

If you've annotated local (private) files within your browser using Hypothes.is, you'll need to find the uri path (a rough equivalent to http address for web pages) for your .pdf file with its "fingerprint" (a long unique number).

To do this 1. Visit https://jonudell.info/h/facet/ 2. Search for your Hypothes.is username (and perhaps a tag) to find the document name and annotations you made on it. 3. You should be able to click on the document title which will take you to a non-loading web page with an address that looks something like this: urn:x-pdf:1ab23cd45e678fgh9012i34j56k78l90 4. Copy and paste that address you get into Hypothesidian as the address for an appropriate option like "Retrieve my annotations for a web article or web pdf". 5. Hit enter/return. 6. Hypothesidian should return the appropriate annotations for that document.

If others know of alternate/faster methods of finding URis for local pdf files I'd be happy to hear about them.

Suppose the server were sending rel=canonical in a Link header for non-document resources (e.g. images like this one). Is the Hypothesis bookmarklet/extension thorough enough to deal with this?

https://web.hypothes.is/blog/back-to-school-with-annotation-10-ways-to-annotate-with-students/

https://annotations.lindylearn.io/

What a great UI for annotations on Hypothes.is and Hacker News.

I wonder if this is pulling data from the public Hypothesis API? What triggers inclusion into the lists?

Hakarlfresser, There are definitely a bunch of us (non-LMSers) floating around who you'll slowly see in the margins. It may take some time and effort to find your tribe, but it's doable. I think the biggest group I've run across was as a result of iAnnotate 2021, and in particular the note taking session: https://iannotate.org/2021/program/panel_font.html. Looking at the annotations on the iAnnotate site will uncover a few of us. If it helps, I list a few of the feeds of others that I'm following here: https://boffosocko.com/about/following/#Hypothesis%20Feeds

Best, Chris https://hypothes.is/users/ChrisAldrich

Using Hypothes.is as an annotation layer for internal company notes in a private space could be an interesting way for easing on-boarding.

In some sense, this is a little bit of what the annotated syllabus is doing for students at the beginning of a course (in addition to helping to onboard them to the idea of social annotation at the same time.)

It would be interesting if there were a timed pop-up notification functionality within Hypothes.is directly so that one could create follow-up reminders for particular highlights and annotations.

I've thought about wanting this before though I've got something in my data store for those notes that does something like this in a third-party sense.

Sticky notes or Post-It notes create a physical and spatial relationship between the note and its context. This same sort of relationship is recreated by taking notes in Hypothes.is which links the note or idea directly to the part of the web page or document which spurred it. Moving these notes into other platforms (Roam Research, Obsidian, etc.) can be done in a way so as to keep the physical link (using URLs) so that one can quickly and easily revisit the original context if necessary.

This affordance is an incredibly useful one which is generally neglected in the note taking space.

How often in practice is this done though?

• HYPOTHESIS ROADMAP

• An arXiv page (article with DOI) is considered OBJECT (DOI)

• This example is an AUTO-REFERENCE !!!

• It is due to the arXiv Agent (?)

• See examples of Evidences
• Agent uses "url": "https://hypothes.is/api/search"
• GUESS: filter by date of annotation? "extra": { "cutoff-date": "2005-04-13T09:08:04.578Z"

• IDEA: probar con hlib

• SEE

• AT LAST!
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Does exists an Javascript wrapper for hypothes.is?

"Export" annotations

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• HERE!
• therefore I use hypothes.is
• then, I use the "h" search tool

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necesita usuarios (zotero y hypothes.is) y API keys de cada uno

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I'm seeing a larger growing pattern of people who are using Hypothes.is as a means of pulling their notes into their digital notebooks. Here Andy Matuschak is doing it to create spaced repetition cards for mnemonic purposes, a use case I haven't seen much of in the Hypothes.is space.

The fact that many are using Readwise (a paid monthly subscription) to do so is unfortunate. We definitely need more open source/free methods for doing this.

The Hypothesidian plugin for Obsidian is one of the few direct products I've seen in the space so far.

Most of this knowledge pattern I've seen has been in the tools for thought space and not within educational spaces, thought there is some overlap which will create the necessary bleed-through.

Services like IFTTT might also be a potential solution, but outputs from RSS and ATOM strip out data like tags which are highly useful. Perhaps a custom IFTTT integration? Though this opens up the issue of yet another middleman service for collecting rents.

Source: https://twitter.com/withorbit/status/1474575944429957125

I've been having a really good time this week writing prompts as inline annotations on web books. pic.twitter.com/gCvpTAsjt1

— Orbit (@withorbit) December 25, 2021

https://www.amazon.com/Marginalia-Paper-Very-Margin-Notebook/dp/192689202X/

Marginalia Paper, you know, for annotating your own writing...

A must-have for the Hypothes.is fan who wants to go the hipster route.

Chris has a separate note every now and then with the original URL. I suspect for the same reason, to get around Hypothesis if necessary.

If I'm understanding correctly, yes, this is exactly why I'm doing this. ;)

https://via.hypothes.is/https://www.edutopia.org/article/social-annotation-digital-age

a teaser article for social annotation. only scratches the surface.

https://willtmonroe.com/microblog/hypothes-is-oer-and-smart-notes/

https://github.com/judell/h_notify

https://github.com/weichenw/obsidian-hypothesis-plugink

This is a page note. It's essentially a comment on the page, not a specific part of it.

This query doesn't behave as expected. Consider by way of comparison to a Google search for anything -site:pinterest.com.

Learn more about the Hypothes.is annotation tool.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FRy85ZL17Tc

Back to School with Annotation: 10 Ways to Annotate with Students

Use-cases for groups in Hypothesis: Using Hypothesis Groups in the Classroom

DIRECTORY (in progress): This post is my directory. This post will be tagged with all tags I ever use (in chronological order). It allows people to see all my tags, not just the top 50. Additionally, this allows me to keep track. I plan on sorting tags in categories in reply to this comment.

External links:

Tags categories will be posted in comments of this post.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HCACgiFzfdw

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1f86L7vgHUW9wSLNNSunhjmtxtg6KlCOVpHGKbqUzW-Y/edit#gid=0

Hypothes.is Historical Survey of Annotation Efforts

https://groups.google.com/a/mozilla.org/g/dev-platform/c/NXvLZHeIqQw/m/PbGve3rRAwAJ?pli=1

cc: @dwhly, @judell

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mRMrnyWlPqk

This is another good possibility to hide most of the machinery of connecting hypothesis to obsidian. I like that it takes advantage of relatively robust existing bits of obsidian.

Python batch-file approach for exporting from hypothesis.

CLI-based method for batch exporting hypothesis annotations in markdown suitable for adding to Obsidian. I'm not sure I like it; the idea of batch-filing the process irks me. I would prefer for it to all happen in the background.

This has possibilities because it backgrounds a lot of the heavy lifting by saving the annotation to a local markdown file.

I love this outline/syllabus for creating a commonplace book (as a potential replacement for a term paper).

I'd be curious to see those who are using Hypothes.is as a communal reading tool in coursework utilize this outline (or similar ones) in combination with their annotation practices.

Curating one's annotations and placing them into a commonplace book or zettelkasten would be a fantastic rhetorical exercise to extend the value of one's notes and ideas.

Thinking in solitary can increase one's susceptibility to confirmation bias. Thinking in groups can mitigate this.

How might keeping one's notes in public potentially help fight against these cognitive biases?

Is having a "conversation in the margins" with an author using annotation tools like Hypothes.is a way to help mitigate this sort of cognitive bias?

At the far end of the spectrum how do we prevent this social thinking from becoming groupthink, or the practice of thinking or making decisions as a group in a way that discourages creativity or individual responsibility?

I wonder how this may be leveraged with those who are using Hypothes.is for conversations in the margins in classrooms?

cc: @remikalir, @jeremydean, @nateangell

Could teachers specifically sow contention into their conversations? Cross reference the idea of a devil's advocate.

I love the aphorism:

“People should fight as if they are right, and listen as if they are wrong.” — Robert Sutton, Stanford Buisness School professor's formula for productive conflict

Hypothesis should highlight this as one of its killer features: private "replies". More permanent than a draft.

(Unfortunately, a bug in the Hypothesis server means that this page is a 404 even for me—the person who wrote the reply, trying to view it while logged in...)

https://jrdingwall.ca/blogwall/25-years-of-ed-tech-blogs/

JR writes about some of his journey into blogging.

I appreciate some of the last part about the 9x9x25 blogs. For JR it seems like some smaller prompts got him into more regular writing.

He mentions Stephen Downes regular workflow as well. I think mine is fairly similar to Stephen's. To some extent, I write much more on my own website now than I ever had before. This is because I post a lot more frequently to my own site, in part because it's just so easy to do. I'll bookmark things or post about what I've recently read or watched. My short commentary on some of these is just that, short commentary. But occasionally I discover, depending on the subject, that those short notes and bookmark posts will spring into something bigger or larger. Sometimes it's a handful of small posts over a few days or weeks that ultimately inspires the longer thing. The key seems to be to write something.

Perhaps a snowball analogy will work. I take a tiny snowball and give it a proverbial roll. Sometimes it sits there and other times it rolls down the hill and turns into a much larger snowball. Other times I get a group of them and build a full snowman.

Of course lately a lot of my writing starts, like this did, as an annotation (using Hypothes.is) to something I was reading. It then posts to my website with some context and we're off to the races.

Some people consider annotations to be a conversation with the author. But you're also having a conversation with yourself and your own thoughts. (Cross reference Niklas Luhmann's having a conversation with himself via his notes.)

Further, there are platforms like Hypothes.is or social platforms like Twitter where you can move the conversation out of the page and engage with others. However, for this Hypothes.is has more power because it keeps the conversation linked to the original text and the original context (which I'll explicitly translate here as "with the text") to underline the point.

cf:

cum (Latin) : with

textus (Latin) : tissue, web, texture, fabric, connection, language

contextus (Latin) : context, connection, coherence, connexion, coherency, text

The so-called "multi-dynamic" bookmark was a string (or strip of parchment) with a sliding pocket and a spin-able disk to allow one to indicate how far down a page and which column (typically columns 1-4) one was last reading.

My own personal digital version of this is with Hypothes.is. I'll sometimes create a highlight or annotation of a portion of a text (especially with longer digital books) where I was last reading. When I return to the text, I can click on my last marked annotation and begin re-reading from there.

The menu on the top left allows people to either show their annotations to others or make it private.

👈

As I'm thinking about this, I can't help but think that Hypothes.is, if only for fun, ought to add a manicule functionality to their annotation product.

I totally want to be able to highlight portions of my reading with an octopus manicule!

I can see their new tagline now:

Helping hands on the digital page.

I'm off to draw some octopi...

I'm not sure what you mean by your use of the word "creative". I'm worried that you've seen too many photos of decorative and frilly commonplace books on Instagram and Pinterest. I tend to call most of those "productivity porn" as their users spend hours decorating and not enough collecting and expanding their thoughts, which is really their primary use and value. Usually whatever time they think they're "saving" in having a cpb, they're wasting in decorating it. (Though if decorating is your thing, then have at it...) My commonplace is a (boring to others) location of mostly walls of text. It is chock full of creative ideas, thoughts, and questions though. If you're having trouble with a place to start, try creating a (free) Hypothes.is account and highlighting/annotating everything you read online. (Here's what mine looks like: https://hypothes.is/users/chrisaldrich, you'll notice that it could be considered a form of searchable digital commonplace book all by itself.) Then once a day/week/month, take the best of the quotes, ideas, highlights, and your notes, replies, questions and put them into your physical or digital commonplace. Build on them, cross link them, expand on them over time. Do some research to start answering any of the questions you came up with. By starting with annotating things you're personally interested in, you'll soon have a collection of things that become highly valuable and useful to you. After a few weeks you'll start seeing something and likely see a change in the way you're reading, writing, and even thinking.

reply to: https://www.reddit.com/r/commonplacebook/comments/ojhwrb/getting_started_with_a_commonplace_notebook_as/

https://forum.obsidian.md/t/epub-support/1403

Some interesting resources here, though none currently suit workflows I'm keen to support yet. There is a reference to FuturePress' epub.js which could be intriguing, though even here, I'm more likely to stick with Hypothes.is for annotating and note taking to keep context.

Hypothes.is is a great solution for hybrid & hyflex!

If you mean hypothes.is, you might take a look at https://forum.obsidian.md/t/retrieve-annotations-for-hypothes-is-via-templater-plugin-hypothes-idian/17225 which has some options for doing this easily.

I'm annotating the text using hypothes.is - it looks like you cannot annotate an image with this. You have to sign up to annotate text like this and log in.

This is pretty slick and looks pretty in its published form. Great to see others are using clever set ups like this as posting interfaces.

I have a feeling that other TiddlyWiki users would love this sort of thing. While TW may not seem as au courant, it's still got some awesome equivalent functionality and great UI which is what most of the users in the note taking space really care about.

I do still wish that there was a micropub set up for Hypothes.is to make this sort of thing easier for the non-technical users.

Testing out the OCR functionality of docdrop.org.

I'm noticing that the pdf fingerprint of this text somehow matches that of other texts as there are a lot of non-related annotations on this page.

Is docdrop doing something squirrelly with the fingerprint @dwhly?

Demo'd at I Annotate 2021 by creator Axel Dürkop.

This is awesome and moves a bit closer in functionality for how one might use the platform as a commonplace book. Not sure how it's different to the main search except that it's geared toward smaller groups rather than the public timeline which is too large to view.

My first impressions:

• It doesn't seem to show within Firefox.
• It overloads in the Public timeline

via: Michael mention at IAnno21

This page needs to have some of the plugins for note taking added to it. Many are listed on Github. Circle back to this with a list of additions.

An awesome looking annotation tool that dovetails with Zotero to invite students and readers into texts with annotations.

Demonstrated by Axel Dürkop at the Social Hour: Annotate This Party With Annotation Show-and-Tell

This is pretty cool. I've not run into anyone using an open account on Hypothes.is to solicit anonymous feedback on an article before.

There is definitely an art to writing interesting marginalia however. Perhaps something that requires practice?

Sam Anderson's would be intriguing I'm sure. Dick Macksey's marvelous. Anderson provides the example of people wanting books from [[Samuel Taylor Coleridge]] earlier in the piece.

I can only contrast this with some of the crazy minutiae an pedantry I've seen on Hypothes.is which makes me think that it's surely an art form.

I suspect some of it is that I'm missing the personal context with a particular person---a sense of continuity. Things get even worse when it's a piece annotated by a class which can create a cacophony of annotations. I see far too many "me too" annotations floating around in the margins that don't add anything to the conversation. (Hopefully I'm not guilty of this sin myself, but really, even my public annotations are a conversation between me and a piece and are only for my own benefit.)

This could be an interesting service to set up and run.

I wonder if I could set up a private Hypothes.is group and actually charge a club rate to members for doing such a thing?

Goofy as this physical version sounds, I could imagine a digital overlay version that could go along with digital books in much the same way that Google Maps has digital overlays.

The problem lies with registration and location of words to do the overlay properly. The UI would also be a major bear.

Hypothes.is has really done a spectacular job in their version, the only issue is that it requires doing it all in a browser and isn't easily usable in any e-readers.

Computer and phone notifications can be insidious. I've personally turned most of them off.

I also find that reading and annotating with Hypothes.is has helped me to have more focus while reading---even despite the short turnoffs to cogitate a bit, write a bit, and then return.

Invitation link for this semi-private group:

https://hypothes.is/groups/y6v5zd8n/streamline-w2g-client

Up until this point, I have no idea that there is a code of ethics for computing professionals. I simply think that problems are presented and we try to solve it by creating algorithms. However, the thought of these algorithms being able to determine if a certain individual can get a job or approved for a bank loan have never crossed my mind. This new understanding will bring a new awareness to what kind of job I'm taking in the future and it will also help me determine what path I want to take in my career.

See also: https://history4today.com/2021/04/29/zotero-to-obsidian/

fully agree with this statement as motivated people motivate others and allow for a great team working ethic with everyone pulling in the same direction

This is a fun and curious bit of UI here relating to Hypothes.is. There's an icon/button with a link to open the via interface and it auto updates with each additional annotation.

I'd like to look into how they implemented it and potentially add it as a social sort of feature to my own site.

This looks like the sort of project that @judell @dwhly @remikalir and the Hypothes.is team may appreciate, if nothing else but for the user interface set up and interactions.

I'll have to spin up a copy shortly to take a look under the hood.

This is pretty cool looking. I'll have to add it as an example to my list: Social Reading User Interface for Discovery.

We definitely need more things like this on the web.

It makes me wish the Reading.am indicator were there without needing to click on it.

I wonder how this sort of activity might be built into social readers as well?

Suddenly social annotation has taken an interesting twist. @Hypothes_is better watch out! ;)

It would be nice to have Zotero support the same shared annotations that Hypothes.is does so that it would be easier to share them across the web.

The tough part of this equation is that most people would probably prefer to keep their annotations private rather than open.

For @mentions on one's own website the feed https://hypothes.is/stream.rss?wildcard_uri=https://example.com/* should work for folks using Hypothes.is as a commenting system on their website.

To cover other cases when people don't use the @ symbol, one might also subscribe to https://hypothes.is/stream.rss?any=%22username%22

There's a notable omission from this page. Hypothes.is.

Invitation link to the Hypothesis group for triplescripts.org:

https://hypothes.is/groups/Pk6nxawk/triplescripts-org

This is a spam account.

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<small><cite class='h-cite via'>ᔥ <span class='p-author h-card'>Remi Kalir & Jeremy Dean</span> in Web Annotation as Conversation and Interruption (<time class='dt-published'>03/15/2021 00:21:05</time>)</cite></small>

One of the pieces missing from Hypothes.is is the curateable notebook which more easily allows one to create new content from one's annotations.

Search is certain there, but being able to move the pieces about and re-synthesize them into new emergent pieces is the second necessary step.

<small><cite class='h-cite via'>ᔥ <span class='p-author h-card'> collignon</span> in collignon/annotation-tools: python tools to link hypothesis and pinboard annotations to obsidian. (<time class='dt-published'>03/13/2021 01:58:28</time>)</cite></small>

Looks like an interesting way to transport Hypothes.is annotations to [[Obsidian]].

A command line tool for placing Hypothes.is annotations into [[Obsidian]].

Slides from Hypothes.is presentation at OLC Innovate

I know exactly what you mean. My experience? There are very few tools worth adopting for the long haul, ones that repay the time invested. Hypothes.is is a worthwhile investment of time and talent. I would not advocate for its use to my students if I did not think it was a net gain in the brain.

+1! 🎉

In Brave open Settings / Additional settings / Privacy and security and then under Sites that can always use cookies add [*.]bjfhmglciegochdpefhhlphglcehbmek.

If only this was possible on Safari.

<small><cite class='h-cite via'>ᔥ <span class='p-author h-card'>Cory Doctorow</span> in Pluralistic: 16 Feb 2021 – Pluralistic: Daily links (<time class='dt-published'>02/25/2021 12:20:24</time>)</cite></small>

It's interesting to note that there are already two other people who have used Hypothes and their page note functionality to tag this article as to read, one with (to read) and another with (TODO-read).

Hypothes.is has both RSS and Atom Feeds. So the IFTTT “if” is a new item in your feed which creates a text post in some appropriate storage account. I use OneDrive as the “that” target, but I’m sure you could potentially use others with some experimentation. If you have something that only saves as .txt files, that’s fine, you can simply rename them as .md files for your vault later.

I’ve described some of this before at https://boffosocko.com/2020/08/29/a-note-taking-problem-and-a-proposed-solution/ for those interested in further details.

Hopefully this helps (until someone has a more automated version).

I suspect that this could be modified to work with [[Obsidian]] and other related note taking tools.

I've always wished that Hypothes.is had some additional social features built in for discovering and following others, but they do have just enough for those who are diligent.

I've written a bit about how to follow folks and tags using a feed reader.

And if you want some quick links or even an OPML feed of people and material I'm following on Hypothesis: https://boffosocko.com/about/following/#Hypothesis%20Feeds

I've run into this issue myself in a few public instances. I look at my annotations as my own "conversation" with a document. Given this, I usually flip the switch to hide all the annotations on the page and annotate for myself. Afterwards I'll then turn the annotation view back on and see and potentially interact with others if I choose.

I know I've come across this and used it before, but somehow I managed not to bookmark it.

Get the Chrome extension for easier use: chrome://extensions/?id=bjfhmglciegochdpefhhlphglcehbmek

(But you already know this).

The thoughtfulness and design of of Hypothes.is is incredibly valuable to me specifically because it dramatically increases my textual productivity in combination with my digital commonplace book.

Connect this to the Jeremy Dean's idea of it helping to facilitate a conversation with texts. Nate Angell had a specific quote of it somewhere, but it might also reside in this document: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14682753.2017.1362168

If one is worried about link rot for transclusion, why not just have a blockquote of the original in excerpt form along with a reference link to the original. Then you've got a permanent copy of the original and the link can send a webmention to it as a means of notification?

If the original quoted page changes, it could potentially send a webmention (technically a salmention in function) to all the pages that had previously mentioned it to create updates.

Automatic transclusion can also be more problematic in terms of original useful data being used as a vector of spam, graffiti, or other abuses.

As an example, I can "transclude" a portion of your page onto my own website as a reply context for my comment and syndicate a copy to Hypothes.is. If you've got Webmentions on your site, you'll get a notification.

For several years now I've been considering why digital gardens/zettelkasten/commonplace books don't implement webmention as a means of creating backlinks between wikis as a means of sites having conversations?

I sort of wish that I could do separate tidbits like this in hypothes.is.

Comprehensive annotation tools for web/PDFs/eInk/etc

Good overview of annotation tools with a lot of additional information in comments and - you guess - annotations.

Rename h. tags to have consistent tags names. See also https://blog.jonudell.net/2018/11/13/renaming-hypothesis-tags/

EBF expression represses and restricts alternative lineage genes, also help promote B cell independently of Pax 5.

here is the problem this hypothes.is, -- one using Jaws cannot use the software jaws when adding a " highlight on the literature they are reading. They can read the webpage, but not trigger the highlighting - once that trigger occurs, Jaws will work with the annotation text entry. So they can't use it with Jaws.

Get you Hypothes.is API toke here. To sync Hypothes.is notes for readwise.io, copy this API token and paste in the Add Highlights->Sync Highlights->Hypothes.is section in readwise.io.