Google Sidewiki vs scrible

Google Sidewiki

Description: Google Sidewiki was a social annotation tool that allowed users to make comments and annotations alongside web pages from 2009 to 2011. It enabled collaborative annotation functionality for information on websites.

Type: software

scrible

Description: Scrible is a free online note taking and writing tool. It allows you to take notes, highlight portions of websites, and organize your research visually on an infinite digital canvas.

Type: software

Google Sidewiki Features

• Allowed users to make comments/annotations alongside web pages
• Enabled collaborative annotations on websites
• Browser extension let users view annotations on web pages
• Users could vote on annotations
• Annotations were public and visible to all Sidewiki users

scrible Features

• Web browser extension for highlighting and annotating web pages
• Infinite digital canvas for organizing notes visually
• Collaboration tools for sharing notes and editing together
• Importing and exporting notes
• Text editor for writing notes
• Web clipper for saving web pages