Notate
Annotate anything for humans and their agents
93 followers
Annotate anything for humans and their agents
93 followers
Notate is for anything where pointing beats describing: design and motion review, product walkthroughs, code review, and handoffs. Unlike screenshot tools, it freezes open menus, hover and focus states before they disappear, or records a flow so you can pin the exact frame where an animation breaks. Gesture-based annotation keeps the flow fast; smart crop and reopenable sessions preserve the image, comments, and context so feedback stays useful when it reaches a teammate or an agent.
the 'no replay guarantees, I will never pretend to reproduce app state' line further up is a rare kind of honesty for a launch post, most tools would just quietly overclaim there. practical question on the recording side - a long capture with per-frame data plus the pixel history for the perceptual diff sounds like it could get heavy fast. is there a size ceiling or compression pass on longer sessions, or does a 10 minute recording just produce a genuinely large .notate file you're expected to live with
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@omri_ben_shoham1 Three things keep it in check before any ceiling: frames are only captured when the screen actually changes, so ten mostly-idle minutes cost almost nothing; every frame is hardware-encoded HEIC at capture time; and the trace itself — cursor, clicks, timings — is text, it weighs nothing. Then there is a real ceiling: a session stores at most 600 frames and a configurable max duration, and when a busy screen hits the cap the capture ends and says so, rather than quietly thinning what it kept. What there deliberately isn't is a quality pass — frames stay full resolution, because the pixels are the record. So yes: a genuinely dense session is a genuinely large file, and the tooling is built to make that cheap to live with — inspect, trace, and diff stream the manifest straight out of the archive, so asking an 800MB session what happened costs the same as asking a small one.
The hover-state capture is genuinely useful. I was reviewing a dropdown animation that kept closing before I could comment, and being able to freeze it mid-hover saved me a ton of back-and-forth with the dev.
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@averybrooks Thank you!