Annota user guidePowerful Firefox Extension

Bookmark and annotate web

pages or PDF documents

Organize your collection of

bookmarks

Share bookmarks and annotations

in groups

Follow other users activity

Annota

• About

• Installation

• Bookmarking

• Bookmark

organization

• Mendeley

synchronization

• Sharing in

groups

• Following others

Bookmark and

annotate

1. Navigate to http://annota.fiit.stuba.sk

2. Click green button “Install Annota Extension”

3. Register

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• About

• Installation

• Bookmarking

• Bookmark

organization

• Mendeley

synchronization

• Sharing in

groups

• Following others

The “A” button in the toolbar is a gateway to all Annotafunctions

Click to open popup and add various types of annotations

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• About

• Installation

• Bookmarking

• Bookmark

organization

• Mendeley

synchronization

• Sharing in

groups

• Following others

Sidebar provides

1. Annotation buttons

a) Bookmark tool

Creates bookmark on document

b) Highlight tool

When clicked, all selected text will

be highlighted

c) Settings

2. Mark to read later or as

favorite bookmark

3. List of tags

4. Shared or private note

5. List of highlights

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• Bookmarking

• Bookmark

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• Mendeley

synchronization

• Sharing in

groups

• Following others

To highlight text:

Click on highlight tool (1) in the popup

Select text that you want to highlight (2)

OR

Select text first (3)

Right click on selected text and click on Highlight (4)

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• Installation

• Bookmarking

• Bookmark

organization

• Mendeley

synchronization

• Sharing in

groups

• Following others

Hover highlighted text (1) and comment window will

appear

Type message in textbox area (2) and save it (3)

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• About

• Installation

• Bookmarking

• Bookmark

organization

• Mendeley

synchronization

• Sharing in

groups

• Following others

Organize bookmarks

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• About

• Installation

• Bookmarking

• Bookmark

organization

• Mendeley

synchronization

• Sharing in

groups

• Following others

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1. Organize your library

2. Search other documents

3. Manage groups

4. Search in for groups, users and documents

5. Get notified

6. Manage your profile

Organize bookmarks, groups …

1. Organize your library in different ways

2. Filter bookmark collection

3. Manage bookmarks

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• Installation

• Bookmarking

• Bookmark

organization

• Mendeley

synchronization

• Sharing in

groups

• Following others

Synchronize with

Mendeley

1. Click on Profile, to open profile management dropdown

2. Select Mendeley

3. Click in Link Mendeley

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• Installation

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• Bookmark

organization

• Mendeley

synchronization

• Sharing in

groups

• Following others

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Accept connection of Mendeley and Annota and

follow connection form

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• Installation

• Bookmarking

• Bookmark

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• Mendeley

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• Sharing in

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• Following others

Synchronization will start afterwards.

Share bookmarks in

groups

1. To manage groups, click on Groups button in the top menu

2. To create group, click on “Create group”

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• Bookmarking

• Bookmark

organization

• Mendeley

synchronization

• Sharing in

groups

• Following others

To create new group

Fill in new group dialog and click “Create”

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• Installation

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• Bookmark

organization

• Mendeley

synchronization

• Sharing in

groups

• Following others

Group home page

1. Group details and in-group activity stream

2. Bookmarks shared in the group

3. Group members

4. Group settings (only for group admin)

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• About

• Installation

• Bookmarking

• Bookmark

organization

• Mendeley

synchronization

• Sharing in

groups

• Following others

Share bookmark in My library

Click on icon to edit bookmark

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• About

• Installation

• Bookmarking

• Bookmark

organization

• Mendeley

synchronization

• Sharing in

groups

• Following others

Share bookmark in My library

1. Open share tab

2. Select one of your groups

3. Save

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• Installation

• Bookmarking

• Bookmark

organization

• Mendeley

synchronization

• Sharing in

groups

• Following others

Share bookmark using popup

1. Open bookmarked page

2. Open popup

3. Open haring tab

4. Select group

5. Share

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• About

• Installation

• Bookmarking

• Bookmark

organization

• Mendeley

synchronization

• Sharing in

groups

• Following others

Follow other users

activity

Follow other users activity

Use global search to look for other people

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• About

• Installation

• Bookmarking

• Bookmark

organization

• Mendeley

synchronization

• Sharing in

groups

• Following others

Follow other users activity

Find interesting people

Annota

• About

• Installation

• Bookmarking

• Bookmark

organization

• Mendeley

synchronization

• Sharing in

groups

• Following others

Follow other users activity

Follow people

Annota

• About

• Installation

• Bookmarking

• Bookmark

organization

• Mendeley

synchronization

• Sharing in

groups

• Following others

Follow other users activity

View community activity stream

Annota

• About

• Installation

• Bookmarking

• Bookmark

organization

• Mendeley

synchronization

• Sharing in

groups

• Following others

Now you are ready to use

Annota, powerful Firefox

extension