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Giddy at an experimental new feature in Pages: add annotations and marginalia in digital ink and they're anchored to the associated text regions. Textual edits preserve your marks! I'd love this kind of modality-crossing interaction in my reading software.

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Andy Matuschak

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Digital ink is so much more expressive than the impoverished "highlight / add note" interactions available in all e-readers. Many let you draw on documents (though not books), but I've never seen any connect those scribbles meaningfully to the underlying text.

4:33 AM · Jun 25, 2018Twitter Web Client

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At work, we've already used this kind of ink markup in two neat ways: 1. Annotating quoted text inline with connections to the quoting document's line of reasoning (can't share example unfortunately). 2. Deliberately lo-fi metacommentary layer (e.g. see image)