Annotated — Share the part

Capture the exact passage or moment behind your take, add context, and share a source-backed citation.

Share the part, not just the link. Annotated is a focused Chrome side panel for turning one exact passage, video moment, or podcast segment into a source-linked annotation. Start from the current tab or paste a website address to open it, select text or capture the current media position, add a written take or a short voice note, review the source and commentary together, then open the hosted preview. Opening a pasted address does not read or capture that page, and nothing is published by opening the side panel or making a draft. What ships: - Capture a live text selection with its page title, publisher/author when available, canonical URL, and bounded text anchors - Paste a credential-free HTTP(S) source URL from first run or the regular composer; Annotated opens it, then waits for a separate toolbar/side-panel or selection-menu capture gesture on that tab - Mark a video or podcast range no longer than 90 seconds - Add up to 5,000 characters of written commentary or a voice note no longer than two minutes - Autosave the current draft and recover it after the side panel or service worker closes - Keep a local list of up to 50 hosted-preview shortcuts - Preview the complete source-linked card before website sign-in or publication - Reopen the original source from every published annotation - Use a direct **Open original source** link on every public feed card and annotation page - Use the companion website for public feed, profiles, follows, comments, applause, reports, and a prominent private **File a claim** intake on every annotation page - Review public, project-generated rights-cleared video and podcast sample annotations under the neutral **Annotated Sample** profile For a video or podcast draft, Annotated also offers a source-tab clip. It may be skipped while drafting or previewing but must be completed before publishing that media annotation. After a separate rights confirmation and dedicated Record click, Chrome records the visible contents and audio of only the invoked active tab for the chosen interval. This is not necessarily limited to the page's video element. It does not capture browser chrome or other tabs. Chrome shows its recording indicator, the side panel shows a countdown and Stop control, and the clip auto-stops at 90 seconds or earlier. Source-tab video is downscaled to at most 426×240 (240p), limited to 30 fps and 16 MiB; podcast capture is audio-only. The user can play the result locally, discard it, and cancel publication. Annotated's optional server media worker is a different, unused path that shares the same pixel ceiling. Privacy by design: - Annotated reads a page only after a toolbar, side-panel, or selection-menu gesture - It has no persistent content script and requests no host permissions - The pasted-URL launcher only opens the destination. The user must invoke Annotated on the opened tab before it can read the page - Selection-menu capture is consent-gated: before onboarding consent, Annotated stores no selection, URL, or other page data and opens the disclosure instead - Incognito operation is disabled by `incognito: "not_allowed"` and rejected at runtime - Drafts, voice notes, and source clips begin in this Chrome profile - Preview metadata uses the new tab's URL fragment, which is not sent in the page's HTTP request - Voice and source-clip bytes transfer only to `https://annotated-source-clips.vercel.app` through 256-bit, single-use capabilities that expire after five minutes - Google/X sign-in and live social actions happen on the companion website, not inside the extension - Publishing is a separate, explicit action - The header says **LOCAL DRAFT**; the built-in example is visibly unverified/local, its seeded profile is **Annotated Sample**, and **Examples** is explicitly static local reference content with no simulated social activity Annotated preserves the source URL and capture selectors supplied by the extension. The service validates their format and ownership at publish, but it does not independently refetch or certify the source page, quote, or the user's media rights. Chrome-managed pages such as `chrome://` URLs and the Chrome Web Store do not allow normal page extraction or source-tab recording. Annotated is not available in Incognito.