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Copy & paste a few lines of JavaScript into your prototype to activate Protonotes.
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Add, edit, delete notes. Slap notes on your prototype and make it a requirements conversation. Try them out in this sandbox page.
What are Protonotes?
Protonotes are notes that you add to your prototype that allow project team members to discuss system functionality, design, and requirements directly on the prototype. You can think of it like a discussion board/wiki in direct context of your prototype.
To enable Protonotes on your prototypes, all you have to do is copy and paste a few lines of JavaScript into your prototype. That's it. Once you do that, anyone who visits your prototype can add/edit/delete notes. They don't have to install anything or sign up for anything. You can even hook up Protonotes to your own MySQL database with a single line of JavaScript.
Use Protonotes to annotate your prototypes for:
- Requirements collaboration
- Design crits
- Usability test findings
- Heuristic reviews
- QA testing
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What's so great?
- Everyone on your team can easily add notes to your prototype - helps the entire team collaborate quicker and easier.
- Project team members don't have to install anything or sign up for anything to use it. It just works.
- It's not bloated with extra "features". It does one thing and one thing well - adds notes to your prototype.
- Works in all major browsers including Firefox, Safari, Internet Explorer, and Opera.
- Export your data at any time to a .csv file.
- Subscribe to your group's notes with a Protonotes RSS feed.
- Hook Protonotes up to your own MySQL database with a single line of JavaScript.
- It's free.
How is it different?
There are a bunch of Web annotation services out there but they require the installation of a browser plug-in or the use of a bookmarklet. Try to get everyone on your project team to do that. These services are all geared for individuals (not teams) to annotate webpages.
Protonotes tackles Web annotation from a different angle. The functionality is enabled once from the website itself and all visitors can seemlessly add notes. No sign-ups or installs. Works on all major browsers.
In the News
- Mentioned in the Wall Street Journal article, "A time for sharing".
- "Protonotes is now live and it's really nifty." - Adaptive Path
- "I like simple. Simple means I don't have to think too hard and - done well - has a kinda elegance about it. Mike Padilla's Protonotes is one such idea." - Web Worker Daily
- "All the notes are subscribable by way of RSS or exportable via .CSV, and with an improvement that’s truly impressive, they now boast MySQL integration through just one extra line of JavaScript."- Mashable
- "15 Free Tools for Web-based Collaboration" - Six Revisions
- "Killer Application For Usability Testing." - Web Analytics Book
- "This tool comes as a big help for those teams who are working on web development projects." - Make Use Of
- "This is genius." - Tumbling Upwind
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