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What’s new

Every notable change to Annotate, newest first.

Nov 11, 2026
Improved

Sharing is simpler: one Share sheet, one feed, and a bell

  • Everything you put in front of people goes through one Share sheet. It goes to your followers, or type a name or a group to send it only to them, or copy a link.
  • Want an answer? Ask in your words and send it to the people you want. The sheet shows who can read the site, which helps on a paywall.
  • Every post has one list of replies, in your feed and on the page.
  • Your Library is private. Sharing a highlight makes a post, and the highlight stays yours.
  • Inbox is now part of Feed. What people send you directly sits under Requests at the top, with Reply and Done. Involves you shows what is about you, and Waiting on lists what you sent that is still waiting for a reply.
  • A bell at the top of the dashboard shows what is new. People is now Following, Followers and Groups.
  • Needs Annotate extension 0.11.0 for the new Share sheet and posts on the page.
Nov 10, 2026
Improved

A wider dashboard, and folders inside My annotations

  • On a computer, every dashboard page now uses more of the screen. Lists keep a comfortable width, and a column on the right holds each page's filters, staying put as you scroll.
  • Folders no longer have their own page. Pick a folder, or Organize your unsorted annotations, from the column beside My annotations. Your folders and what's in them are unchanged.
  • Inbox can show just what was sent to you, replies and mentions, requests, or notices from Annotate.
  • Settings lists its sections beside the page so you can jump to one.
New

Overview and your reading history

  • Overview is the new first page of your dashboard: what you read this week, month or all time, how much of it you annotated or shared, and your most-read sites.
  • Keep my reading history, off unless you turn it on, keeps the articles you spend 10 seconds on so you can find them again. Only you can see it, and it starts with the pages you've already annotated.
  • All annotations is now My annotations, just below Overview.
  • Show my followers when we read the same site now sits under Keep my reading history. Turning it off hides your reads from your followers and deletes nothing.
  • Needs Annotate extension 0.10.0 or later to record what you read.
Oct 20, 2026
New

See where the people you follow read, in the rail

  • A new row at the bottom of the rail, People you follow here, shows who you follow has read on the site you're on this week.
  • Click it for the trail: what each person read, when, and a link to open it. Whoever read the page you're on comes first.
  • Hide this site and Hide this page stop your own reading being recorded, right from the trail.
  • Needs Annotate extension 0.9.0 or later, and Share what you read turned on in Settings.
New

Share what you read (off unless you turn it on)

  • New switch in Settings: Share what you read. It's off for everyone until they turn it on, and recording starts with the next extension update.
  • A never-recorded list: sensitive sites and account pages are never recorded, and you can see the list in Settings.
  • Hidden sites and Clear my reading history in Settings, plus a preview of what your followers see.
  • A clearer privacy policy about what is kept and for how long.
Fixed

The extension stays off useannotate.com

  • The Annotate rail and highlight toolbar no longer appear on Annotate’s own site, where your library already is.
New

Block people, and hide replies on your notes

  • Block someone from their profile or your People lists. You stop following each other, and neither of you can follow, send to, reply to or mention the other. You won’t see what they write anywhere. They aren’t told.
  • Remove a follower without blocking them. They can ask to follow again.
  • Hide a reply on your own note, or a take on your own question. Everyone else stops seeing it; the person who wrote it still does, and isn’t told. Unhide it any time.
  • See and unblock the people you’ve blocked in Settings.
New

A proper welcome

  • A new sign-up page, and a page for joining from a friend's invite that shows who invited you.
  • New accounts get a one-time welcome that explains Annotate and helps you add the extension. It moves on to your library by itself once the extension is in.
  • Four getting-started steps sit under the sidebar menu and tick themselves off as you go. Hide them any time.
  • Try a highlight right there on the website, before you install anything.
  • Clearer empty states in your library and feed, saying what will show up and what to do next.
Oct 7, 2026
New

An inbox, and a reminder email

  • A new Inbox collects pages people sent you, replies to your notes, mentions, insights and requests. Find it on the rail, on the toolbar icon and on the website.
  • The toolbar icon shows a red count when something is waiting.
  • If something has waited 30 minutes unseen, you get one email about it. It names who and which page, never the text of a note. Turn it off in Settings.
  • The send list now shows everyone you follow, with search, ordered by who you send to most.
Oct 6, 2026
Improved

A rail on the edge of the page

  • The card at the top of the page is now a narrow rail on the right edge, out of the way of the headline.
  • Click the Annotate mark on the rail to pull out a drawer that names every icon.
  • Save a page in one click, then add a note or change who sees it if you want.
  • Drag the rail anywhere and it stays there. It has no close button; turn Annotate off for a site from the toolbar icon.
  • Page-level conversations no longer appear on the page. Existing ones are still in your feed.
New

Reply to annotations

  • Followers can reply to an annotation, from their feed. Replies to yours show in your feed and on the annotation's card on the page.
  • Type @ in a note or a reply to mention someone who can read it.
  • Deleting an annotation that others replied to removes your note and keeps their replies.
  • Once someone else has replied, an annotation can no longer be switched to Only me. You can still delete it.
  • Your library shows how many replies each annotation has.
New

Annotations from people you follow, on the page

  • Passages annotated by people you follow are marked in green on the page. Click one to read their note and reply.
  • Save a passage someone else annotated to your own library. It is credited to them, and your note starts empty.
  • A saved copy starts as Only me.
Oct 5, 2026
Improved

Annotating is how a conversation starts

  • The selection toolbar is down to two actions, Annotate and Enrich. To start a conversation, annotate the passage: the people who follow you see your note on the page and in their feed.
  • A new annotation card holds your note and who sees it. Nothing is saved until you click Save.
  • New annotations go to your followers unless you pick Only me, which now carries a lock. Set your usual choice under Settings, Who sees your new annotations.
  • Everything you annotated before this change stays private.
  • Start a conversation is gone from the feed, the dashboard and the extension, and Suggest questions is retired with it. Conversations you already have keep working.
Sep 16, 2026
New

Send an Enrich answer to your followers (Pro)

  • Send a good Enrich answer to people you follow, straight from the answer card. Everyone you pick gets their own private copy.
  • Save the people you send to most as a group, under People → Groups, and pick the whole group in one tap.
  • Copy a link for anyone not on Annotate yet. They read the full insight and your message without an account.
  • Insights you receive land in your feed, and show up on the article itself beside the passage they came from, with a Reply button.
  • Your own shares appear in your feed too, and the on-page card lets you send to more people later.
Sep 15, 2026
New

Enrich — ask AI about any passage (Pro)

  • Highlight a passage and click Enrich to ask a quick question about it, answered right on the page.
  • One-tap prompts: Explain simply, Why does it matter?, Add context.
  • Turn an answer into an anchored conversation, pre-filled with your question.
New

Anchored conversations & @-mentions

  • Start a conversation on the exact passage you highlighted — it floats right beside the text and follows it as you scroll.
  • The on-page pill lists every conversation happening on a page, so you can jump into any of them.
  • Pull people into a thread with @-mentions, and see when you're mentioned in your feed.
New

Subscription recognition & getting a friend's read

  • Annotate recognizes the paywalled sites you can read, so friends who hit that paywall can ask you for a read.
  • See and manage everything in Settings → Your subscriptions, including sites you've hit but don't have access to.
  • When a friend can read a page you're walled out of, the paywall pill now leads with them and highlights the Ask button.
Improved

A calmer, clearer on-page toolbar

  • Highlight and note are now a single “Annotate” action — a note is just a highlight with words.
  • The selection toolbar matches the rest of the product, and stays off age-restricted sites by default.
Sep 14, 2026
New

Shareable highlights & a reading-first library

  • Share any highlight with a clean, mobile-friendly public page.
  • Your library is organized by smart folders that group saves by topic.
  • Followers-visible notes: choose, per note, whether the people who follow you can see it.