Frequently Asked Question

To create an annotation on a web page, first make sure you are signed in. (You can do this by hovering the mouse pointer over the Anotato icon in the top right corner: a tooltip will appear showing stating that you are signed in, followed by your User name and stating how many Create Credits and Forward Credits you have.)

Select a block of text from 10 to 100 characters that you want to comment on, by left-clicking, dragging and releasing the left mouse button. This will highlight the text you want to comment on. (We call this the "anchor text".)

Then, right-click on this highlighted text. This opens a dropdown menu called the "context menu".

From the context menu, select Create Anotato Annotation and either left-click or right-click on it. This will open the Create Annotation popup window.

The window shows: 

• The webpage text that you have selected at the top, 
• A text box into which you can type your annotation (up to 20,000 characters), 
• The number of Create Credits you have available and 
• A "Save Annotation button.

When you have finished creating the annotation and are satisfied with it, click on the blue Save Annotation button. This will create the annotation and send the annotation to our servers, where it will be visible to other Anotato users, who visit that web page. The Create Annotation window will automatically close after about a second.

Creating an annotation will deduct two (2) Credits from your credits balance. Do not click on Save Annotation until you are satisfied with it. We do not provide for interim saves.

If you change your mind about creating an annotation before you have saved it, you can simply click on the red Close button, or the X in the top right corner. This will close the Create Annotation window, without saving anything and without deducting any credits.

If you have created an annotation but then changed your mind, you can delete an annotation that you have created by clicking on the delete button that only appears when you are looking at one of your own annotations in the annotation viewer. However, this will not restore the two Credits you used when you created the annotation.