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Yeah I was thinking the same thing. A GUI where the original text material is loaded, then you highlight it and write the annotations. Bonus of each annotation could be tweeted/tooted/whatevered and include open graph screenshots of the annotation.

Also, I'm sure you didn't mean to trivialize the project, but it's more than "just a front end". The design is what's really great about it.

Sounds similar to Ted Nelson's Xanadu project.

Fermat's Library offers something that comes relatively close https://fermatslibrary.com/margins

Slightly tangential: is there software that converts multi-LaTeX PDFs into responsive HTML in a reasonable way? I'd read more of these papers if they were more viewable on a phone-size viewport.

Pandoc?

Cool idea, why don't you have a go at it and share the outcome on HN.

You might find https://web.hypothes.is/ helpful.

Does Hypothesis require a cloud account that syncs your annotations? If so, these products are a non-starter for any corporate environment, which is unfortunate.

Obsidian gets this right. Most software these days doesn't which is a shame.

This is what my fork of her project does https://github.com/kees-/annotate :)

Well, all it does is generate her identical format from a spec. Like @bradgessler said a gui to coerce annotations to that format from highlighting would be awesome