Annotating notes?

[tsastra]

I was wondering what’s the best way to annotate notes in Obsidian.
Sometimes I have an article that I want to annotate like I would with a PDF.
I thought of doing it with footnotes but that cam get messy as some notes have footnotes already.
The best option I can think of is exporting the note to pdf and then importing the pdf in obsidian and annotate with the PDF++ plugin. But I’m sure there has to be a better way.

[_Dan]

I use highlights for this and have a keyboard shortcut to make adding highlighted text quick and easy. Of course, this is less helpful if you want to highlight text in the article too. Perhaps there is a plug-in that allows for easily highlighting in more than one colour. That might work - so long as you remember which is for your words!

[allanelder]

What I do is use a callout beneath the paragraph in question. It’s clunky, but allows me to roll up my comments.

[DiCaver]

I went through the forum to check what’s new and saw a post about this snippet …

New snippet: Short callout

Short callouts are useful for brief lines of information that should appear close to the preceding paragraph. They follow the normal syntax for callouts and are characterized by the fact that their type identifier ends with a colon (:). I like to use them for source references. [01] > [!book-copy:] See also > HIBBELER, Russell C., 2023. _Mechanics of Materials, SI Edition_. Also useful as simple headers for project notes. [02] Some useful default types are already pr…

… and based on @allanelder idea, I wanted to point it out. Hope it helps

Cheers, Marko

[Amelio]

There are many ways you could do so ! PDF ++ or the Zotero-Obsidian path are the most used by Obsidian users.

I personally save the PDF in Zotero, annotate it there and export the metadata and the annotations in Obsidian once I’m finished.

For what you want to do, PDF ++ is pretty simple and straightfoward. I haven’t used it lately, so I can comment, but if I recall correctly, multiple updates helped with the design and the how-to. If it wasn’t for Zotero, I would have chosen this one instead. It really depends on what you want from those annotations !

[writtenfool]

I am using the Enhanced Annotations Plugin

It presents in the sidebar and is able to identify and distinguish between %%comments%% and ==highlights==

In the picture, I’ve embedded the comment in line, but you can just easily put it before or after a block.

[vanem]

May I ask:

• what theme are you using?
• what is the difference between comments and highlights with Enhanced Annotations Plugin? It looks to me there is not much even cosmetical difference. Is it possible to toggle annotation visibility on/off? the documentation is non-existent

[writtenfool]

Theme is Obsidian gruvbox.

Styling for comments is a snippet:
.is-live-preview .cm-comment:not(.cm-formatting) {
color: cyan;
}

.is-live-preview .cm-comment-start, .cm-comment-end {
color: grey;
}

/* hide comment markup except for line is selected */

.cm-line:not(.cm-active) .cm-comment.cm-comment-start, .cm-line:not(.cm-active) .cm-comment.cm-comment-end

{ display: none; }

the plugin has css style settings. In the photo above you can see that comments in sidebar ar plain text while highlights are in italics.

both comments and highlights are standard markdown. The plugin allows me to shred a long document and have my own comments and highlights visible in the sidebar.

[MrShoaff]

Sorry this is off-topic, but what theme are you using?

It looks a bit like a gruvbox-ish theme is that correct?

[writtenfool]

It is Obsidian Gruvbox. I get tempted by others but keep returning; tried and true. How about you?