These sample tasks run through all the key features of Notate 2.1.

Registering and creating an account

See the Getting started page to create an account and add the 'Snap!' button to your browser toolbar.

(1) Adding notes to pages

• Find a web page with text on it. As an example, you could use What is the Hobbit
• snapshot it using the Snap! button in your browser toolbar.
• highlight some text and add a note.
• highlight some text and add a tag.
• highlight a number of different names of people on the page, and tag them as 'Person'
• highlight a number of the University / Journal / Author / Country names and tag them as 'University', or 'Country' or something appropriate.
• try the different views of notes (overlay, inline, at end)
• add a reply to a note
• view notes on this page [hint: 'view notes' link in the title bar]
• view notes index [hint: the Notate button in your browser toolbar] - try searching / sorting too - e.g. show all notes with tag 'Person'

(2) Creating pages, attaching files

• go to your pages on Notate [hint: the Notate button in the browser toolbar, then the Pages tab at the top]
• create a page.
• edit a page - full screen and inline mode.
• create a subpage.
• attach a file.
• attach an image. [note: maximum image file size is 1Mbyte] add some descriptive text to the image
• attach a PDF or DOC. Add a note to the text.
• do a snapshot from the 'snapshots' page.

(3) Groups and discussions

• go to your settings page and create a new group, e.g 'my group'
• add a snapshot button for taking snapshots for the group.
• invite someone to join by email.
• snapshot a paper, write a comment.
• add a reply to one of your own comments, or reply to a note made by another group member.

(4) Linking notes to new pages

• find a web page which mentions different types of thing (e.g. pick a news story from google news)
• snapshot it
• highlight a number of interesting terms (e.g. all the people, companies, organisation names).
• Tag them with something suitable (e.g. 'Person', 'Company', 'Concept').
• link some of the terms to a new page

(5) Connections and properties

• find a sentence in a web page connecting two or more terms (e.g. 'Joe Bloggs works for Textensor' or 'MAPKK phosphorylates MAPK').
• tag subject and object (e.g. tag Joe Bloggs as a Person, Textensor as a Company, MAPKK as a kinase)
• link both subject and object to new pages.
• show the 'links' dialog for the note about the subject (e.g. Joe Bloggs) [hint: the 'Connections...' button on the notebox, or the 'Links' button on the note itself]
• add the connection 'works for' and pick the 'Textensor' target.
• view pages for Joe Bloggs and Textensor and check that the connection between the two is shown.