Using Zotero for Web-page Annotation and Highlighting

In addition to a whole host of great features, you can use Zotero to annotate Web pages that you have saved as snapshots.

Zotero allows you to take a snapshot of any web page for later viewing. If I then view that snapshot (all the files for which are stored on your hard drive, and therefore are in principle modifiable), a little toolbar pops up. The options are primitive, but helpful. I can highlight text or add little sticky-style notes to the page. The toolbar pops up for stored PDFs as well, but the functionality does not seem to work here yet–just web pages for now. Perhaps later releases will add PDF support.

You can download Zotero Sync preview here. Though this is the version I recommend, be  careful, it is still pre-Beta. If you want the stable release, go here.

If you have not yet set up Zotero, follow this guide.

Update: Apparently this functionality has been available for awhile now, and I just failed to notice. Ooops. This post has been modified to take that into account.

Related posts:

1. The Second “Preview” Release of Zotero 1.5
2. WebNotes Lets You Annotate the Web
3. Zotero 1.5 Preview Released
4. It’s Official: Zotero 1.5 Sync Preview Release 3
5. Zotero 1.5 Sync Preview Gets a Text Editor

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