What is Commenty?

Commenty is a lightweight browser extension used for annotating, highlighting, and adding contextual commentary to web pages. It provides users with a simple way to select sections of text or other page elements and attach textual notes or other metadata.

Once installed in the browser, Commenty presents an unintrusive sidebar interface for managing and interacting with comments and highlights. Users can create private personal annotations for their own reference, or toggle comments to public to share insights or have discussions attached to the source material.

The main differentiating value of Commenty is that it enables annotation and collaboration without modifying the underlying page content itself. The annotations and notes are saved as an abstraction layer rendered by the browser extension. This means web page authors do not have to provide intrinsic commenting features, and external viewers of the page are unaffected.

Compared to alternative solutions, Commenty focuses specifically on text-based commentary for enhancing understanding or enabling group discussion around online content. By optimizing for this use case rather than more general markup, Commenty offers a lightweight and fast way to add marginalia tailored for personal or shared analysis of writings available on the internet.

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