Notate 2.1 has been developed by Textensor as an on-line service for snapshotting and annotating documents. You can attach notes to particular words and phrases within a document and share the annotations privately within a group.

February 2008 A new version is available at a.nnotate.com. Please try that instead as this site may be removed shortly.

Notate requires either the Firefox browser [Windows / Mac / Linux] or Internet Explorer 7 [Windows]. Support for Safari [Mac] is in the pipeline.

Features

• Snapshot any web page and attach notes to particular words or phrases.
• Invite people to reply to notes or add their own annotations.
• Upload and annotate PDF or MS Word documents.
• Create and edit text documents - attach images, documents and data files.
• Express connections between terms from documents

It also lets you structure your notes by attaching tags - e.g. marking 'Joe Bloggs' as a 'Person'. This lets you build up searchable lists of the things you're interested in (e.g. People, Contacts, Enzymes, Labs), with each entry linked back to the exact place in the original text where it was mentioned.

Notate includes a content management system for storing and editing documents and data files on the web. You can choose to make your files private, editable by a trusted group of people, or publicly visible.

The most sophisticated feature is that it lets you capture connections between things mentioned in a text - for example that Joe Bloggs works for Microsoft, or that MAPKK phosphorylates MAPK. You can create a new web page for each item you annotate, and this page displays all the relevant connections. In this example, the page about 'Microsoft' would show that it was a Company and that 'Joe Bloggs' worked for it; the page about 'MAPKK' would show that it was a kinase with links to the reactions it is involved with.