Fleck

When you’re in class, listening to a presentation, or even reading something, sometimes you might write down some notes to help you recall certain key points at a later time. This is a habit for many of us, but even the most avid of note takers probably scale back their note production when it comes to the Internet. Why don’t more of us jot down thoughts while we browse the Web? Well, for one thing, it’s not always the easiest thing to do. For example, you could write your notes down in a separate document, but by the time you reviewed the notes and sent them to others, the context would likely be lost or difficult to interpret. Fleck is a service that makes the process of annotating the Web simple and integrated.

You can either use the Fleck Web site or the browser extensions and bookmarklets to get started, and once you do, you’ll find that these notes are truly like sticky notes for the Web. One of the nice things about the service is that you can position the notes wherever you’d like while still being able to use the Web page like normal. These annotated versions of Web pages can be linked to and shared with others so that they can add their thoughts as well. Right off the top of my head, I can think of a large number of ways in which Fleck would prove to be useful.