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3 June 2010Rich text in notes
22 May 2010Hand-drawn annotations: writing on the page
25 March 2010Displaying the differences between versions of a document
22 February 2010Integrating A.nnotate with Moodle for keeping notes on on-line course materials
3 September 2009New features for annotating images and working on PDFs
16 June 2009Sharing an A.nnotate note link on Twitter
9 December 2008 A.nnotate 3 released for on-line and standalone users
20 October 2008 Preview of version 3: images, shared folders, and more.
17 August 2008 Enterprise server version available for installation
4 August 2008 A.nnotate at the Edinburgh Repository Fringe
20 June 2008 A.nnotate and (online) word processors for document collaboration
12 June 2008What we're working on
1 June 2008Update supporting UTF-8, scanned documents, and multi-size PDFs
4 April 2008A.nnotate launched
2 April 2008About A.nnotate
Robert, 12 June 2008

What we're working on

Work is well underway for two major developments in the coming months.

First, the standalone server will be out in July. This is for anyone who wants to run A.nnotate on their own server on their intranet, integrate it with existing systems, or be absolutely sure where your confidential documents are physically located. Beta testing for the install process will begin in a couple of weeks and there will be an announcement here when it's available. Why not subscribe to the RSS feed if you haven' done so already?

Second, there will be a major upgrade in September with a collection of features people have been asking for. In particular, you'll get:

  • Image annotation with points and regions selectable on images in both HTML and PDF. This will also work for scanned PDFs so even if the text isn' readable, you will still be able to add annotations to the right place.
  • Folders to organize your documents. You'll be able to create folders within folders, move groups of documents around, and keep your document store clean and tidy. Note that you will also be able to add tags / keywords as at present.
  • Shared folders so that rather than sharing just one document you'll be able to share a folder with a particular group of people. They will automatically be able to see and annotate anything you put in there. Useful for accumulating collective resources where each item doesn' necessarily justify a separate message.
  • Notifications so you can get an email sent when a new document has been added to a shared folder or someone has added a note somewhere. These will be optional of course, and easy to switch on and off. We'll also be adding RSS feeds for comments on documents.

There's still time to add features to this list, so if youòùve got a burning need, let us know ASAP!