Researching Your Ideas with Hypothes.is
The best free website annotator and highlighter for research
So you want to reinvent yourself…and you’re not quite at the point where you have your own ideas to document or save into a Second Brain platform such as Evernote or Notion. That means you’re at the stage of trying to find ideas or key information for topics that you’re researching and more importantly, be able to zoom into the key sections of that researched information that is of greatest importance to you.
Enter Hypothes.is as the preferred tool. This is the tool I wish I had in university because it is the equivalent of a digital highlighter that allows you to scribble your notes in the digital margins of a website page.
After you have collected your annotations and highlights, Hypothes.is creates a simple summary for you that looks like this:
It gives you a sidebar with all the keywords as well as a private link that you can share with others to join your private group. Note that it appears to be impossible as the group administrator to remove people from your private group, so if you don’t want people to join your group, don’t give out the link carelessly.
Hypothes.is also has public groups as well too! If you join a public group, you can see all the annotations and highlights on a public web page, such as Hypothesis!
In summary, if you are researching ways to reinvent yourself, and say you want to reinvent yourself as a cryptocurrency expert, you can annotate and highlight all the cryptocurrency pages that are relevant to you without having to webclip the entire page into a tool like Evernote. You can then extract your Hypothes.is summaries into a tool such as Readwise.