Saving, managing, and annotating readings/reference material in HTML (or: will we ever evolve past PDFs?)

At least on the Mac, there‘s much better system framework support for annotation of PDFs, which may partly explain why PDF annotation is much more common among tools.

FWIW, I have long-standing plans to implement annotation of web archives. But the required tool chains aren’t as straightforward as with PDF annotation. And since the latter is still the current status quo, I have to focus on that first.

Both formats have their advantages & disadvantages, and PDFs have their use cases, so I don‘t see them as mutually exclusive. That said, I am really looking forward to working with a text+markup-based format such as HTML, the ability to easily read & modify the DOM, to parse or embed additional metadata, and to facilitate better semantic relationships.

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