Commenting, Annotating, and Highlighting Web Pages or PDF Documents

Some of the resources on hbiostat.org and fharrell.com have specific discussion pages already set up at datamethods.org. Looks especially for special links to datamethods topics when you see a clickable blue bubble in the right margin of the screen.

If you don’t use datamethods, use annotation and highlighting capabilities of hypothesis. hypothesis allows you to post both public (visible to all users connected to hypothesis) and private (visible only to you) comments/highlights. Here are some steps to get you started.

For MacOS with Safari

Go to web.hypothes.is/start and drag the Hypothesis Bookmarklet to the plus sign at the top right of a Safari window. You can activate hypothes.is from a web page by clicking on the hypothes.is bookmark in your Safari Bookmarks tab. Previous annotations will show, and clicking on one of them will bring up the hypothes.is panel on the right. To add a new annotation, highlight some text and then select an action from the pop-up window.

Previously, the app did not show the hypothes.is sidebar on the right of the browser window unless I prefixed the URL with via.hypothes.is. I installed this shortcut to the share symbol at top right of Safari window. This shortcut is a conversion of the official bookmarklet. When running the shortcut I got a message that scripting actions must be enabled, leading me to an Open Preferences box. This opened a box with headings of General Sidebar Advanced with Advanced highlighted. I clicked to Allow Running Scripts. But I got an invalid javascript error. Removed the permission. Tried the other shortcut here but got a URL error. It didn’t seem to need script running permission though. This link worked when opening a section of a chapter. May be easiest just to manually put via.hypothes.is in front of URL.