Category: Annotate Web

NowComment

NowComment: Free web app for digitally annotating online documents in a “social context,” that is, allowing other students to read and add to each other’s annotations. Inline annotations on NowComment appear on a 2-pane interface, alongside the respectively annotated parts of the text, enabling contextualized reading and analysis. NowComment annotates html and Microsoft Word documents, but PDF upload …

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Power Notes Interface

PowerNotes

PowerNotes: an easy-to-use, minimally intrusive Chrome extension for web annotation and citation management. Ideal for taking quick or extensive annotations on texts you read online while the platform automatically stores your highlights, notes, and links to the sources, allowing you to organize them into different topics and different projects. You can export an outline of …

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Loom

Loom: This is a screen recording platform offering both a desktop client and Google Chrome extension. Users can select how they want to record to suit their needs with the desktop client having a few additional annotation tools. When the recording is done, it automatically uploads to the user’s Loom account where they can change …

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Kaltura Capture

Kaltura Capture: This is a screen-recording software native to NYU Stream. Using this software requires the user to download a desktop application that they can use to record their screen, themselves, or both simultaneously. Videos captured with the software are hosted in the user’s private NYU Stream Library. This screen recording software has the added …

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