At any moment you can make annotations on your display, save these annotations and share them. Below are some common questions and answers about i3ANNOTATE.
✅ Write on any content without affecting it
Annotating lets you draw or write over whatever’s on your i3CONNECT interactive display: websites, presentations, images, maps, and even a shared laptop screen. The Annotation tool adds a digital layer on top, so you can highlight, sketch, and explain in the moment without editing the original content.
✅ Write with many people on the board
Our displays support 10–20 simultaneous touch actions, but in practice they comfortably fit 2–3 people annotating at once. The screens are physically large, giving each person enough space to write without crowding, so small groups can co-create while the tech scales for busier sessions.
✅ Share your notes
The Annotation tool is for quick markups and doesn’t share directly. To share, tap the camera icon to capture the full screen or a selected area and then this is sent to i3WHITEBOARD automatically. You can also use the Whiteboard shortcut (square with a curvy line) to open i3WHITEBOARD with your capture. In i3WHITEBOARD, press the Share icon to export as PDF or PNG and share via on-screen QR (cloud or local IP), email, save to the display, or send to Google Drive/OneDrive; you can also choose which pages to include.
❌ Cannot use in-app drawing tools
Want your notes saved inside the original file (like a PowerPoint or PDF)? Use the annotation tools inside that app. The Annotation tool in i3CONNECT Studio sits on top of everything, so you’ll either take a screenshot to keep your markup or send it to Whiteboard to continue working.
Present with PowerPoint using cable connection on Studio
❌ Does not have all whiteboard options
i3ANNOTATE is a lighter, in-the-moment version of i3WHITEBOARD focused on quick markups. It doesn’t include full whiteboard features. It does have the essentials: selection, pen and eraser tools, shapes, text, sticky notes, icons, VR Measure tools (ruler and compass), screenshots, and a quick shortcut into i3WHITEBOARD. Any settings you change in i3WHITEBOARD carry over to the annotation tool. The biggest difference: i3WHITEBOARD has its own board background, while i3ANNOTATE uses whatever is on your screen as the backdrop.
What Whiteboard adds: multiple pages, an infinite canvas, page overview/position view and page removal, image uploads, background templates or black/whiteboard modes, split screen, or the full settings and file menu (new/open/save, export, share, help, and preferences such as pen vs finger, autosave/menu position, and background defaults)
❌ Is not usable in online collaboration
The annotation layer is an on-screen overlay that appears only on the touch display, so it isn’t captured in screen shares during video calls. Both Annotation and Whiteboard are local to the board, meaning remote participants can’t see or interact with them. For remote collaboration, use a cloud whiteboarding tool such as Miro.
No annotation tool can be shared in Hybrid meetings, but cloud whiteboards can: