Trouble with annotatons

[Herbert Coleman]

I was able to annotate a document save on my Pocket web site (get.pocekt.com) but I wasn't able to share it.  Then when I created a PDF of the article and uploaded to my Google drive I wasn't able to annotate it.  I opened it as a Google doc and still was un able to annotate.  Then I noticed that Google allows you to comment and and save those in the the document so I guess, I'll just do that. 

[mdiro...@hypothes.is]

Hi Herbert,

I'm not familiar with Pocket nor how they store documents, but you can always annotate a locally-saved PDF in Hypothesis using these instructions: https://web.hypothes.is/help/annotating-locally-saved-pdfs/. If someone else using Hypothesis opens the same PDF on their computer they will see your annotations there.

Google will display a PDF in their own code which prevents Hypothesis from accessing the document (Pocket might do the same). In addition we display annotations based on the URL of the document and Drive might change the URL of the PDF over time, keeping us from displaying the annotations once the URL changes. We do have a WordPress plugin, however, so if you're able to host PDFs in a WordPress site (or similar) you can probably get Hypothesis working that way.

Best,

Michael

[Dan Whaley]

Can also try docdrop.org to store the document and annotate.

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[Chris Aldrich]

Your Pocket account requires a login, so the custom URLs that the service generates are specific to you and your account. Thus you can annotate them, but when shared, the URL won't resolve properly. At best those using the shared URL will get an orphaned annotation on a page that doesn't resolve. Your best bet in those cases would be to use the "view original" link in Pocket to go to the original web page which you bookmarked into Pocket and annotate that version which should be freely available to anyone you'd like to share those annotations with. (Pocket also doesn't mark up their pages with rel-alternate or rel-canonical links, so I think that Hypothesis won't be able to match them on the back end, which is another problem beyond the password issues.)

In personal experience, I find that Michael's solution works best for pdfs. Depending on the .pdf's source, I'll also often save it and modify some of the meta data so that the annotations in my feed have better Titles/authors and richer meta data so I can more easily search my account for them and identify them better visually.

Cheers,

Chris