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Roam Highlighter

by Daniel Wirtz

v0.4.6 Updated Feb 3, 2025 741KiB
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Description

πŸ“’ Update: I'm working on a new and improved version of this web highlighter called Markway. To learn more and get notified about the release, go to https://markway.io πŸ™‚ DESCRIPTION: This extension offers an easy way to highlight text on a web page and import it to note-taking apps like Roam Research, Obsidian, Logseq or Notion in the format that best suits your workflow. This is especially helpful of you are doing research, want to build your own knowledge-base or just want to save your favorite blog articles. FEATURES: Easily highlight any text on a web page β†’ Add tags to bring your highlights into context β†’ Customise the format of your copied highlights with placeholders β†’ Jump to the next open Roam Research tab, to quickly insert your highlight HOW TO GET THE MOST OUT THE EXTENSION? The quickest way to launch the extension is with a hotkey (e.g CMD + SHIFT + R). You can set a hotkey in the Chrome Settings for Extensions. Next you can create your own format for the highlights, by going into the widget settings. Play around with the placeholders and use spaces to indent content. QUESTIONS / FEEDBACK: Do you have questions or feedback? The best approach is to write me directly on x.com/wirtzdan PERMISSIONS: Roam Highlighter needs to modify the websites you visit to display the widget. That's why it needs the requested permissions to function properly. However, the exact phrase ("Read and change all your data on the website you visit") make it sound more invasive than it actually is. Currently, the extension runs completely on your local machine and the only thing that is saved, are the settings you make.
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Reviews (5 cached)

β˜…β˜…β˜†β˜†β˜†2023-10-12
mohamed anshad

its just highlight small web pages - large site extension not supported

β˜…β˜…β˜†β˜†β˜†2022-04-07
Dave Buitenhuis

I could highlight text on websites, not in PDF's. I could not find my dashboard locally on my computer.

β˜…β˜…β˜…β˜†β˜†2023-11-27
Belay Mulat

After highlighting, search integration for a single/ combined selection must be included for search engines, youtube, yandex etc.

β˜…β˜…β˜…β˜†β˜†2020-09-07
Scott Otterson

This is certainly useful, but better would be something that saves entire web pages into a searchable archive, like the Evernote web clipper. The reason is that I sometimes find that my highlights and notes were missing something, and to get that something, I have to go back and reread the original. This can be hard to do if you rely upon a page or tweet to still exist on the ephemeral web. Also, when I write notes, I almost never copy in chunks of literal article text. Instead, I highlight while reading, and then go back through the highlights, writing down points in my own words. But maybe I'd still like to somehow link to those highlights...

β˜…β˜…β˜…β˜†β˜†2020-07-16
Yehmin WU

Would be a great without the bug: Not sure if this has to do with language/OS/browser, the highlighter never, and I mean never, highlight the exact paragraph. It always drifts to at least one line before and after the text I'm highlighting, making this plug in essentially unusable. I really hope you guys fix this. would be a great product. Cheers.

Permissions (3)

Permissions

contextMenusβ„Ή Can add items to the right-click menu storageβ„Ή Can store data locally in your browser tabsβ„Ή Can see your open tabs and their URLs

Details

Version 0.4.6
Updated Feb 3, 2025
Size 741KiB
First Seen Mar 26, 2026