Pundit Annotator

Annotate the web using Pundit Annotator: highlight and comment text on any page and manage your annotations in the Pundit Dashboard.
What is Pundit Annotator?
Pundit Annotator is a unique Chrome extension designed to aid research and studying. You can highlight and comment on specific sections of text across the web, express your thoughts, and manage your content efficiently using Pundit's annotations and notebooks. Moreover, it adds a social dimension, allowing you to interact with other users' annotations.

Extension stats

Users: 1,000+
Rating: 3.58 (19)
Version: 1.11.6 (Last updated: 2024-07-03)
Creation date: 2019-12-07
Risk impact: High risk impact
Risk likelihood: Very low risk likelihood
Manifest version: 3
Permissions:
  • tabs
  • storage
Host permissions:
  • <all_urls>
Size: 8.27M

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Extension summary

Pundit Annotator is the perfect web annotation tool for your research, study, and productivity: highlight, tag, comment, and semantically annotate fragments of text in any web page. Pundit is used by students, researchers, journalists but also general users who want to remember a part of text in a page or leave their comment about it.

HIGHLIGHT

  • Select a part of text
  • Choose "Highlight" from the popover
  • Select or create the Notebook you want to save your highlight into
  • Click save
  • Review your annotation on the sidebar on the right

COMMENT

  • Select a part of text
  • Choose "Comment" from the popover
  • Write your comment
  • Select or create the Notebook you want to save your comment into
  • Click save
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User reviews

These summaries are automatically generated weekly using AI based on recent user reviews. Chrome Web Store does not verify user reviews, so some user reviews may be inaccurate, spammy, or outdated.
Pros
  • Incredibly easy to use, yet very flexible and powerful.
  • Best web annotation tool for commenting and highlighting text.
  • Useful for researching and studying on the web.
  • Allows annotating and highlighting key texts without downloading files.
  • Flexible sidebar detail that lines up with highlighted text.
Cons
  • Basic version is useless; Pro version has issues and is unobtainable.
  • Bugs that prevent basic functionality like text copying.
  • Hogs CPU time even when idle, slowing down computers.
  • No composer available in the basic version to add annotations.
  • Login issues reported, making the app inaccessible for some.
Most mentioned
  • Basic version is useless.
  • Pro version is buggy.
  • Hogs CPU resources.
  • Text copy does not work.
  • Overall user experience varies from excellent to very poor.
Recent reviews
Horrible! The Basic version is useless and the Pro Version which might have real utility is unobtainable. For a "Semantic Annotation" Tool that was introduced way back in 2013 what have the developers been doing in the meantime. Dusting off old open sources research and attempting to turn it into a commercial application...in this case...is an utter failure! Don't waste your time there are plenty of 'modern' alternatives! https://www.researchgate.net/publication/262358453_Semantic_annotation_with_Pundit_A_case_study_and_a_practical_demonstration
by Kenneth Taylor, 2023-01-14

the app does not allow me to log in...can you solve this issue please? It used to work a few moths ago, but now it doesn't. Thanks!
by Antonio Manzoni, 2019-05-09

Basic version doesn't have a composer like the Pro version so no idea how you are supposed to add any annotations. Pro version isn't functional, super buggy.
by Logan Lynn Roberts, 2016-12-07
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Extension safety

Risk impact

Pundit Annotator requires some sensitive permissions that could impact your browser and data security. Exercise caution before installing.

Risk likelihood

Pundit Annotator has earned a good reputation and can be trusted.

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