Annota tutorial

Annota user guide Powerful Firefox Extension

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

Click green button “Install Annota Extension”

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You will see balloon message on the upper

left side of the window

Click on “Allow”

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Extension will be downloaded

When warning appears click

“Install Now” button

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Prompt to restart Firefox will appear

Click to “Restart Now” button

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Annota After Firefox starts you can see Annota icon next to address bar

When you click on “A” icon, Annota menu appears

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1. Click on “Annota homepage” in Annota

menu to register

2. Click on “Register” button on top of the site

3. Fill registration form

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Sidebar is a gate to all functions of Annota

extension

To open sidebar

1. click on “A” button

2. navigate to “Show/Hide sidebar”

Alternatively use shortcut Alt + Shift + S

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Sidebar provides

1. Annotation buttons

a) Highlight tool

When clicked, all selected text will be highlighted

b) Bookmark tool

Creates bookmark on document

c) Read it later

Marks document as read later

2. List of tags

3. Note

4. List of highlights

5. Sharing options

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To highlight text:

Click on highlight tool (1) in the sidebar

Select text that you want to highlight (2)

OR

Optionally you can select text first

Right click on selected text and in displayed menu

click on Highlight (3)

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Hover highlighted text (1) and note window will

appear

Type message in textbox area (2)

Save message with Save button (3)

To remove highlight click on the trash button (4)

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To insert notes into PDF files, allow PDF

support in Firefox (version 15 and higher)

1. Navigate to about:config page

2. Click on “I’ll be careful, I propise!” button

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3. Type “pdf” to Search text box

4. Change “pdfjs.disabled” property to false

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You can now open all your PDF documents inside Firefox

You can add highlights and notes to PDF documents

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On Annota homepage (http://annota.fiit.stuba.sk)

you can manage your content

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Through profile menu (1) import bookmarks

from Delicious or export (2) them to file

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1. To manage groups, click on Groups button

in the top menu

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

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1. In new group dialog fill (1)

Name (required)

Description

2. Than click on “Create” button (2)

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1. Navigate to Search tab

2. Use keyword search

3. Click “Join” to ask for subscription

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If someone invites you to group, you can see

invitation in “invitations” tab

Click on approve or reject button

After joining the group, you can share and

see shared bookmarks of other members

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Share using sidebar

In Share to section choose

group to share document with

Than click to “share” button

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If you want to see bookmarks that belongs to

your group navigate to Groups menu (1)

Then go to “My groups” tab (2)

Select from your groups (3)

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You can see shared bookmarks in

Bookmarks tab and group members in

Members tab

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Now you are ready to use

Annota, powerful Firefox

Extension