Hypothesis (hypothes.is) is an annotating tool, comes as an extension for Chrome Web browser, which runs as an overlay on any webpage or pdf (opened inside Chrome) and allows you to highlight and annotate content with collaborative features.
What is a “commonplace book”? Why you should have one?
Commonplace books (or commonplaces) are a way to compile knowledge, usually by writing information into books. Such books are essentially scrapbooks filled with items of every kind: recipes, quotes, letters, poems, tables of weights and measures, proverbs, prayers, legal formulas. Commonplaces are used by readers, writers, students, and scholars as an aid for remembering useful … Read more
