our JOURNEY
It started at school. We were forever switching between pencils and highlighters when annotating textbooks. One day we came up with a simple hack to combine them, by taping a highlighter to a pencil. Soon we noticed our friends started doing the same thing.
When we showed our parents, they went to get us a real product that would do the same thing. But they quickly found that none existed. So we decided to design one ourselves. The Annotator was born.
What’s in a name?
We called our all in one pencil and highlighter The Annotator, as our teachers were always telling us to annotate our books..
But we also wanted a brand name. We’ve always loved stationery, there’s just something about putting pencil to paper. We felt The Annotator was just the beginning. Since we were twin sisters, we decided to combine elements of our names. SOZY (SOphie and IzZY) was the result.