Research & writing

Digital annotation that stays on the source page

Most tools strip context when you save a quote. Gleanit is built for digital annotation on the live web: highlight text, write notes inline, and keep every mark tied to the URL you found it on.

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What digital annotation means here

Annotate where you read, not in a separate doc

Digital annotation should preserve the page, the passage, and your reaction at the same time. That's how you actually reuse research later.

Highlights on the live page

Select a sentence or paragraph and save it as a highlight. The passage stays visible in context, not pasted into a doc that lost the layout.

Notes attached to each mark

Add a digital annotation explaining why the quote matters: mechanism, objection, comparison to your thesis. Future-you gets the insight, not just the text.

Source URL on every item

Open the original article months later. Citations, fact-checks, and swipe-file references stay honest because the link never detaches.

Search your annotations

Find highlights and notes by keyword, tag, or project. Digital annotation only pays off when you can retrieve it when you write.

Why copy-paste breaks digital annotation

Quotes in Google Docs lose the surrounding argument

PDF annotators don't follow you across the open web

Bookmarks save URLs, not the sentence that made you stop scrolling

Screenshots can't be searched by the note you meant to write

Workflow

From digital annotation to finished work

Annotate while you browse with Capture, organize and search in Find, then pull quotes into drafts and decks with Use. Same library end to end.

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Try digital annotation on your next article

Install the extension and highlight one passage with a note on why it matters.

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