What’s It Like? Genius is a tool for annotating text online. An outgrowth of Rap Genius (a longtime tool for collecting and annotating rap lyrics online), Genius lets users annotate and analyze texts ...

Is a street preacher the right metaphor for every little blog online? UPDATE: Since this story was published, both Genius and Hypothesis have moved to undermine abuse via web annotation using their ...

Ever since I started using Obsidian to collate my digital research, I have continued to discover ways to maximize its functionalities. Lately, I’ve transitioned to Obsidian for handling PDFs and ...

The last time we explored Preview, OS X’s built-in document and image viewer, we discussed using it to crop and resize images, as well as how to undo those changes (see “The Power of Preview: Cropping ...

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Most faculty members have a go-to activity that can be deployed at a moment’s notice in the classroom. It might be a quick, five-minute writing task or a more-ambitious, small-group exercise. When ...

The Department of African Languages at the University of the Free State hosted a dynamic two-day Digital Text Analysis and Annotation Workshop from 24 to 25 February 2026, introducing participants to ...