# Doccano like NER annotation UX

**URL:** <https://support.prodi.gy/t/doccano-like-ner-annotation-ux/4160>\
**Category:** Uncategorized\
**Tags:** usage, ner, front-end\
**Created:** [April 21, 2021, 7:00pm UTC](https://support.prodi.gy/t/doccano-like-ner-annotation-ux/4160 "2021-04-21T19:00:13Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![AlexFridman](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/support.prodi.gy/alexfridman/32/2109_2.png) [@AlexFridman](https://support.prodi.gy/u/AlexFridman)\
**Post date:** [April 21, 2021, 7:00pm UTC](https://support.prodi.gy/t/doccano-like-ner-annotation-ux/4160/1 "2021-04-21T19:00:13Z")

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Hi! Is it possible to implement doccano like NER annotation workflow:

1. select text
2. pick a category from the category list (drop down close to the selected text).

Thank you!

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**Author:** ![ines](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/support.prodi.gy/ines/32/3_2.png) [@ines](https://support.prodi.gy/u/ines)\
**Post date:** [April 22, 2021, 6:57am UTC](https://support.prodi.gy/t/doccano-like-ner-annotation-ux/4160/2 "2021-04-22T06:57:59Z")

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Hi! Prodigy's label selection UI currently follows a slightly different approach: by selecting the label first, you can annotate one label at a time and potentially save yourself a lot of clicks, because you'll only have to select a label once. It also means the UI doesn't need another interaction layer or context menu and all possible actions are visible to the annotator immediately. That's the underlying idea 🙂

(For completeness, I guess it'd theoretically be possible to implement a context menu, but it'd be a bit more involved: you'd have to listen to the `prodigyspanselected` event that fires whenever a span is highlighted, then include the context menu at the cursor position via JavaScript, track the most recently added span and then update the label via `window.prodigy.update` based on what the user clicks.)