Instapaper, the app that lets you save and share online articles, has just launched a new annotation functionality called Notes. The feature allows users to select a piece of text from an article or ...

What’s It Like? Genius is a tool for annotating text online. An outgrowth of Rap Genius (a longtime tool for collecting and annotating rap lyrics online), Genius lets users annotate and analyze texts ...

The iWork suite, including Pages, received a substantial update today as a part of Apple’s iPad education event in Chicago. The biggest feature included in the new update is Apple Pencil support for ...

Most faculty members have a go-to activity that can be deployed at a moment’s notice in the classroom. It might be a quick, five-minute writing task or a more-ambitious, small-group exercise. When ...

Ever since I started using Obsidian to collate my digital research, I have continued to discover ways to maximize its functionalities. Lately, I’ve transitioned to Obsidian for handling PDFs and ...

Is a street preacher the right metaphor for every little blog online? UPDATE: Since this story was published, both Genius and Hypothesis have moved to undermine abuse via web annotation using their ...

The last time we explored Preview, OS X’s built-in document and image viewer, we discussed using it to crop and resize images, as well as how to undo those changes (see “The Power of Preview: Cropping ...