Annotation
A non-destructive mark — highlight, sticky note, comment, drawing — added on top of a document without modifying its content.
Annotation
An annotation is a layer of marks placed on top of a document — highlights, sticky notes, drawings, text comments — without modifying the underlying document content.
Papyrus stores annotations separately from the document. A user with view-only access can still annotate (their annotations are private); users with edit access can annotate publicly (visible to others with the same access).
Annotations are version-independent: they attach to the document, not to a specific version. They survive new versions of the underlying file. They can be exported with the document as a flattened PDF.
Annotations are searchable. The text of comments and sticky notes is indexed alongside the document content.