We believe everyone deserves freedom on the web. With Spade, you can connect inspiration, ideas, and information with annotations on any site, and even share them with others. Understand the web better with site analytics, vocab, and summarization.

Draw anywhere and mark down important information with a pen, highlighter, and text box. Annotations are saved to the cloud and can be organized into folders on our website. Share annotated web pages with others to help them understand your thought processes.

Love it! Any plans for a mobile version of the tool?

@jiamuwang Thank you for the feedback! Currently, Spade works on a touchscreen. However, we haven't developed a safari extension (mobile version) yet. We will be working towards that soon. For now, if you use Kiwi Browser or any browser that allows you to download the chrome extension, it should work!

@jiamuwang @titut Yes, we wished the chrome app includes extension support, but Kiwi browser is a good alternative for mobile use!

Hi ProductHunt! 😀 After a year of developing between sports games, club meetings, and school work, we are re-releasing an improved Spade based on your feedback. Spade V3.0 comes with new features, major bug fixes, and a totally revamped UI. Born out of the pain of not being able to record notes on web pages while researching summer programs, we started Spade with the goal of creating the best web research/annotation tool for students. But, we realized there are many more use cases than just research. So, we redirected towards a more general use case. Spade’s Tools • Pen (w/ shape detection) • Highlight • Textboxes • Edit Tool (Move and resize annotations) • Keyboard shortcuts to switch tools, undo, and redo • Summarization of large paragraphs • Vocabulary list builder Other Features • Save annotations to the cloud • Organize annotations into folders • Share annotations • Annotate PDFs by uploading them to our site • Export annotations to PDF • Draw on touchscreen / mobile devices Here are some examples of what you can do with Spade: • Professional: Giving feedback on research papers / designs / websites, annotating and sharing articles, evaluating product selections, giving presentations to colleagues • Students: Doing problem sets on pdfs, crossing out online quiz answers, noting down notes as you go on a website, annotating articles for research, showing your work online for math, drawing out ideas for robot designs • Teachers: Grading and commenting, live work in online classes and classroom presentations • Developers: Annotating documentation • General: Using it as a whiteboard or mindmap, making decisions or purchases (detailing out pros and cons), annotating articles and organizing them online, filling out forms A huge thank you to @kevin for hunting us! It would be AWESOME if you could download our extension and give us some feedback in the comments. We hope you like it! Thanks, and let Spade-work for you! The Spade Team

@kevin @mrmuke Wow awesome tool. I'm going to download the extension and test this out to provide better feedback, but would you guys be interested in joining our VIP program? We're looking for startups to get proper feedback on our services as well and I think your team would be a perfect fit. Our team could also help you guys out as well in a similar way.

@kevin @sodaman89 Sure, we could try it out. How do we get started?

@kevin @mrmuke You can shoot me an email and I'll forward you to someone on our team! They can help you set up and get more familiar with the platform! sean@channel.io

Great tool! Upvoted 💫

@annstorm Thanks for the kind words!

Thanks for the review!

This is a great extension and VERY useful. However, the notes inside the pages are being saved based on the whole URI and that is a bummer; if it was saving notes based on the URL, that would be better, I guess. (not sure if that is the best solution). I mean, if I click on a 'div' link in the page and it changes the URI just a bit (even though it is on the same page) all my notes are lost, and that is awful. Therea are two other minor thing. First, I would appreciate if the option to highlight somewhere in the page is more customizable, with a more vast option of colors and transparency. Second, There are some web pages background colors that makes the 'Spade toolbar' hard to see, so maybe adding some customizations options for that as well. If those three things that I mentioned are updated (especially the one about losing notes on the URI changes just a bit), I will for sure give this a 5 star rating and recomend it to everyone

Hi, Thanks for the feedback! Sounds like an easy update to make, and I can understand why that is very frustrating. I will get on that right now. The options for more customizable colors and transparency are also doable, and I'll add them to the to-do list.

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