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Reading tools

Notes & Highlights

You can highlight any sentence in this book, write a note on it, and keep it. You can also share those notes with a study group, so you read the same chapter together instead of alone.

You do not need to install anything. This is already built into every lesson page. Open any lesson, click the ⌄ button in the toolbar above the text, and choose Notes & Highlights.

You may also spot these three small buttons at the far right edge of the screen — open notes, show or hide highlights, write a page note. They do the same thing as the menu item, and they are easy to miss.

How to start

Four steps, about two minutes.

  1. Open the notes panel

    On any lesson, find the toolbar above the text — the one with Feedback. Click the ⌄ button at its right end and choose Notes & Highlights. A panel slides in from the right.

  2. Make a free account

    The panel asks you to sign in. Create a free account — it takes about a minute, and it is free for personal use and for sharing with other people.

  3. Highlight and write

    Select any sentence in a lesson. A small Annotate button appears. Click it, type your note, save. Your highlight stays on that sentence and comes back every time you open the page.

  4. Choose who can see it

    At the top of the panel there is a dropdown. It decides who sees your note. This is the one setting worth getting right — see below.

Who sees your notes

Every note goes to whichever group is selected in the dropdown at the top of the panel. Check it before you write — it remembers your last choice.

Only Me
Nobody but you

Your own study notes. Marking the parts you want to come back to.

A private group
Only the people you invited

Reading together with classmates or teammates. This is the one you want for sharing. Make a group, send the link, and everyone posts there.

Public
Everyone on the internet, forever

This is not a group of people you know. It is a shared space open to any Hypothesis user anywhere. Fine for open discussion, wrong for study notes.

Reading with other people? Make a group first. Do not post to Public and hope the right people find it — Public is open to every Hypothesis user on the internet, not to your class.
  1. Create a private group (takes about ten seconds)
  2. Send the invite link to the people you are reading with
  3. Pick that group in the dropdown before you write
Everyone who joins then sees the same notes on the same sentences.

Optional: use it on other websites

Skip this if you only read here. The same tool works on any page on the web — research papers, documentation, newsletters — but only if you add its browser extension. That extension is for everywhere else. It changes nothing on this book, which already has notes built in.

Get the extension for other sites

Good to know

  • Notes live with Hypothesis, the tool that powers this — not on our servers. Your account there is separate from your Agent Factory login.
  • Notes are attached to the page you wrote them on. A note on the English page will not appear on the Urdu one.
  • Found a mistake in the book instead? Use Suggest — highlight the text and pick Suggest. That one reaches us directly.