Hypothesis Source: hypothes.is/users/may… This is Hypothesis, a site/tool for bookmarking and annotations (aka “write in the margins”). I saved the site pointing to Maya, a user I learned about through People and blogs. I am not sure I want to actively use Hypothesis, as I already kind of can do somethin... holgerfrohloff.de

@holgerfrohloff do you use a plugin for this:

as I already kind of can do something like this with Obsidian

Or do you just attach the page as a pdf to your note?

@V_ I use obsidian.md/clipper to save websites as bookmarks into Obsidian. Since the annotation doesn’t support specific comments (as Hypothesis would ☹️) I usually save my own comment as note body text instead of the website’s text.
Later I might publish that note using my custom plugin

@V_ have you tried building that yourself (maybe with AI coding help)?

@holgerfrohloff I have an automation setup that it converts email I sent to myself (with the right keyword in the subject). So what I do usually is use the share function of the browser and send the link to myself. On the Mac this hast the option to include a pdf. And it work quite well. I just must not forget to include the source. But iOS it is a bit cumbersome and I just found out recently hoe you can create pdfs from webpages here.

Of course I was thinking about creating a small clipping app for myself :-). What I like about this hypothesis thing is the ui of writing into the margins. Need to think about writing another Obsidian plugin ;-)

@V_ oh we should talk more. 😁 This sounds interesting to me.

Questions:

1. What browser are you using? Especially on MacOS i often have trouble sharing something from the browser.
2. Regarding the PDF. Does it use the print stylesheet of the website, or do you get the regular desktop view? What about ads?
3. > I just must not forget to include the source.
   You mean to add the site’s url in the email body? Or what does that mean?
4. > But iOS it is a bit cumbersome and I just found out recently hoe you can create pdfs from webpages here.
   How do you do that? Please share!
5. > Of course I was thinking about creating a small clipping app for myself
   I dipped my toes into that. And it’s soooo complex. I have basic highlighting (adding, removing, extending highlights) done. But the UX is not great (every selection is a highlight which break copy&paste text). Annotations also are possible already but their UX and UI is also not great. But there is no proper PDF export yet.
6. > What I like about this hypothesis thing is the ui of writing into the margins
   Right?!!

@holgerfrohloff this is only a short reply (I’m in transit right now). I’ve written about the note creation & import here. But not directly about adding notes about webpages.

To create a pdf on iOS, open up the printer dialog (from the share option/ in email it is in the reply to menu). Then inside of the printer sheet choose share again (icon is a the top right) and then select Mail as destination — for me this creates an pdf of the webpage/mail but there are also options you can change). I’ve noticed that it tries to use the reader mode on iOS and that does not always work unfortunately. I would prefer the original page I want to archive the page as I’ve seen it.

With sources I meant the source of how I found this specific link I’m adding a note about.