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Quotepad - free notepad that can save the text selected on the screen. The Awesome Highlighter - be nice, highlight. Trailfire. Webnote - an online tool for taking notes. Webnote is a tool for taking notes on your computer. It allows you to quickly write something down during a meeting, class, or any other time that you have a web browser available. You start by creating a workspace and creating notes in the workspace. You can save your workspace at any time and return to them from the same computer or any other computer. You can also share your notes with others by providing the workspace name (or url) to a friend. new host! I'm in the process of migrating the website to a new hosting provider. If you want to try it out (you can think of it as a beta release), please save your notes, then load them from the server is melting Please don’t embed your webnote page in an iframe or a frame if you’re going to be sending thousands of users a day.

Database update I’ve made a change to how the database of the site works. Anyway, this shouldn’t cause any noticeable changes. Scrollbars Two new features: crash downtime. Five Ways to Mark Up the Web. In 1999, Eng-Sion Tan and two friends launched Third Voice, a browser plugin that would let anyone make annotations on webpages. The intent was to encourage freer speech on the internet, but many slammed it as “Web Graffiti.” The company eventually shut down. The idea of web page annotation didn’t die with Third Voice, though. New services, each with unique features, have carried on. Diigo A must have for researchers Diigo is a research tool that lets you share bookmarks and annotations on web pages using a browser plugin or bookmarklet. Diigo has some advanced search functionality built in as well. Fleck Bare bones Fleck is the most basic of the annotation services, letting you simply post public or private text notes on a page. ShiftSpace Have your way with any webpage ShiftSpace is an opensource browser plugin (FF only) being developed by NYU’s Interactive Telecommunication Program and is pretty close to internet graffiti.

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