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Hypothesis
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Open Source
Hypothesis is completely free and open source, its source code is hosted in GitHub.
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No browser extensions apart from Chrome
Allegedly, one can use bookmarklet instead, but in Firefox it works only for some of websites.
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Everything can be searched through
Searchable stream of annotations, replies, and email notifications.
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Seems under development
Too many rough edges and/or bugs as you use it. For example, you have to keep logging in every time you want to add a page using the chrome extension. There are ways to add annotations on the mobile too, but way too buggy. Hopefully they fix these problems soon. Very good idea; poorly implemented.
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Private or public
You can work in private groups and then publish, keep annotations private, or make it public from scratch.
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Annotations are for text only, not images
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Tags
You can sort by tags, which makes it far more powerful.
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Lets you see public & private annotations on that webpage
Helpful to see what people thought or see useful references they might have left. Useful for group collaborations as well (research groups, book clubs, class study groups, etc)
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Chrome browser extension works on Brave browser
Most (maybe all) Chromium-based browsers let you use Chrome browser extensions.
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Chrome browser extension
Has browser extension for Chrome, which makes the job of annotating web pages even easier.
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Unique URLs for each annotation
You can link directly to an annotation.
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Lacks a coherent standard
Lacks a coherent standard, just many semi-compatible dialects (MultiMarkdown, etc). This inconsistency can cause problems if the person writing the Markdown is using a different dialect from the one that will be used to render it.
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Human-readable
Designed to be easy for a human to enter with a simple text editor, and easy to read in its raw form.
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Bad support for table
It has poor support for table, while table is an important part of article.
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Widely used
Markdown is quickly becoming the writing standard for academics, scientists, writers, and many more. Websites like GitHub and reddit use Markdown to style their comments.
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Bad support for larger documents
Works good for single file documents like READMEs. Lack support for cross-references, TOCs, document index etc.
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De facto standard
Markdown is ubiquitous. It's supported by nearly everything. The markup available in the common subset of all the many dialects isn't that rich, but it's usually enough to get the job done.
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It doesn't support semantic markup
It's unstructured.
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Multi-directional
You can convert HTML to Markdown or Markdown to HTML. You can use tools like pandoc to convert to other formats as well.
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Revision friendly
It is easy to track changes for markdown documents as compared to other formats like doc, html, etc. You only need to place your markdown documents under some version control system.
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