Annotations are indispensible for reading. Many academic institutions suggest hypothes.is for webpage annotations. But I think it’s beneficial for confidential thoughts to be hidden from the annotations provider. Are there particular comparable tools you use which are more privacy-respecting?
I use Zotero for bibliographic management and have tried the html annotations functionality of its beta version. It works, and depends on gildas-lormeau/SingleFile to make webpage snapshots (which sometimes fail to preserve the page).
There are methods like the Logseq way you mentioned. But I don’t find it very streamlined and convenient. I wish there was a way to annotate in the browser, and have your pdfs and annotations saved automatically. There are extensions but I don’t like them, and integrated browser functionality would be a lot better anyway.
Update: I now use obsidian-citation-plugin to create notes per bibliographical item from Zotero. In the image below, I have chosen to format my file names with just the item title; but it is customisable.
This way, the entire process occurs locally. It is also versatile with regard to the medium. Text-bound annotations are not really superior to this simpler approach in my experience.
PS I don’t know if I can remove this topic from the category “Questions”, under which I should have never posted it. It seems improper to mark this as a “solution”.
I previously used raindrop too until I saw this End-to-end encryption | Voters | Raindrop.io. It doesn’t matter if an extension is open source if it saves everything with no E2EE imo (the point of open source is that you can inspect the cryptology) so I stopped using it.