Markup Hero

We longtime Notion lovers and side hustle hackers. The 3 of us have been building SaaS for ourselves and companies for decades. We have this little screenshot and annotation side project called Markup Hero we launched during Covid. It’s a little buddy with a strong user base. Super useful and people love it. Now, Notion is gold, no doubt. But it’s missing that simple little feature of annotating images in pages. If you remember back in the day, when Evernote was boss, and they bought Skitch? The integration there was stellar. Paste any image or screenshot, then one-click to add annotations, close and see the image updated. I used it on the daily. Evernote is dead, but that integration haunts me when I use Notion. Enter our little web based screenshot and annotation tool Markup Hero. We just launched a new Notion integration and Chrome Extension to address this problem. With the Chrome Extension you can snap website screenshots, scrolling screenshots, desktop screenshots and then choose a page to embed. That’s not really that special, there are a few other extensions that do this, although most are pretty janky tbh. The real juice is once the screenshot is embedded in Notion. You can now click an “annotate” button overlay on the image which opens our web-based markup tool. From there, add arrows, callouts, highlights, signatures, paste images and 25+ other markup tools. You can even crop your screenshot. Click save and see the changes reflected. On top of that, Markup Hero doesn’t flatten annotated images like almost every other markup tool does. So that means you can open and modify/add/remove annotations at any time. Plus all the expected share links, download png/jpg/pdf, copy to clipboard, all that. Finally, the Notion integration part itself is just enabled by default. So nothing to install. So when you start with a screenshot (desktop app, chrome extension) or even upload an image or PDF, all you need to do is /embed in Notion and paste the link. That connects automatically with our annotation app and you’ll see the annotate image button. Here’s a link you can just try yourself without even signing up or installing anything https://markuphero.com/share/2sU... — just /embed it in Notion. Love to hear your thoughts. Any Notion peeps that we can connect with to talk about making the integration even better, hit me up.

Congratulations on the launch! The seamless integration with Notion addresses a gap many of us have felt, offering the ability to annotate images directly within our pages. The fact that annotated images remain editable is a game-changer. Great work!

Very handy - great idea! Thank you 🙌🏻