What do you use for annotating webpages when reading?

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).

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I found this blog post about annotating websites as PDFs in Logseq: I’m printing out websites - you might want to do it, too

I use Raindrop and sometimes hypothes.is.

I’m looking for something like this myself.

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.

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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.

These notes are at most merely temporary. To consolidate the things that I read more permanently, I would make files with footnote citations, e.g.:

The links in the footnotes are generated using zotero-link in combination with zotero-bridge.

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.

How do you use hypothes.is on Firefox? Its always caught my eye, but the bookmarklet tends to bug a lot.

do you know any alternative that’s FOSS and e2ee ?
i plan to mainly use it to save youtube videos