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Memex Working Group: Round 5

Exploring Social Annotation Use Cases

Date: 2026-04-23

  • People show up between 18:00 and 19:00
  • Start at 19:00

Basic Intro Speech

  • Why are we here?
  • Develop a "Community of Practice" that shares and cultivates behaviors of life enhancing knowledge tool use
  • Focus is Goals, Plans, and Tools, IN THAT ORDER
  • Tools exist to make your life better, don't force your life to fit into a tool

Follow up on lessons learned

  • There are no active quests beyond my daily logging one
  • Hands up if you have an Obsidian Vault?
  • Has anyone integrated the collective-memex into the Obsidian Vault
  • Documenting your PKMS work flow
  • Jordy from mememaps.net talks about their lunch with Jon Udell

Intros

  • What is your name?
  • What do you want to socially annotate, articles, youtube, podcasts, songs, books, etc
  • What are some tags you would use while socially annotating?
  • Favorite Knowledge Management Use Case

Select 2 Note Takers for the Meetup

  • You are expected to demo and share your notes at the end of the meetup

What are Social Annotation?

Social annotation is a collaborative hypermedia medium that allows people to highlight, comment on, and discuss components of hypermedia is a contextualized fashion.

Example Annotation Software

Examples of Tags used for Social Annotation

Brainstorm Social Annotation Use Cases That Inspire People

Review Existing Social Annotation Quests

Self Assign Quests

  • No more Vox bot, let's come up with a new processes