Research Notes

Bookmark, tag or add notes to pages, highlight and save quotes or images, save selected Google searches, filter out search results.

What is Research Notes?

'Research Notes' is a Chrome extension meant to enhance and streamline online research sessions. It allows users to bookmark, tag, or add notes to web pages, search in Google, and save relevant findings systematically under different topics. It comes with highlighting features to stress important quotes or images directly from the web pages or PDFs right into your notes. It also provides advanced tagging and value-adding to keep all aspects of your research systematically organized. All data created during the usage of this extension is privately stored in your browser and is not shared with anyone.

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Extension stats

By: https://onlineresearchnotes.com

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Users: 3,000+

Rating: 4.30 (20)

Version: 1.0.8.5 (Last updated: 2024-11-17)

Creation date: 2020-04-26

Risk impact: High risk impact

Risk likelihood: Moderate risk likelihood

Manifest version: 3

Permissions:

tabs
storage
unlimitedStorage
background
contextMenus
bookmarks
clipboardRead
scripting

Host permissions:

http://*/*
https://*/*
file://*/*

Size: 681.98K

Email: fe*****@onlineresearchnotes.com

URLs: Website ,Privacy policy

Ranking

# 17927 ▼ 158

Other rankings

#4077 in Tools ▼ 9

#3 in research keyword 32

#37 in topic keyword 1 ▼ 1

#76 in author keyword 8 ▼ 6

#174 in google keep keyword 49 ▲ 10

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Extension summary

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(What's new in latest version: see https://onlineresearchnotes.com/#latest)

KEEP NOTES AND ORGANIZE PAGES Bookmark, tag or add notes to pages.

SAVE & HIGHLIGHT QUOTES Save quotes or other text snippets from pages (or PDFs), highlight quotes on the page.

SAVE IMAGES Save images with pages - either pictures directly from the page or copy-pasted screenshots via a tool like Snipping Tool or Paint.

TAGS WITH VALUE Advanced tagging: you can add values to the tags. For example, to record a page’s author, add a tag like “Author: <author’s name>”. Or, when searching for products and comparing good websites with alternative offerings, add tags to pages such as “Product: <product name>” or “Price: <product price>”. You can group and sort by tags and values separately on the all notes -page.

User reviews

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Pros

Works across multiple webpages and data persists through browser restarts.
Lightweight and easy to use; highly appreciated for enhancing productivity.
Excellent tagging functionality helps organize notes effectively.
Privacy focused, storing data locally in the browser.
Ability to import/export notes easily.

Cons

Recent updates have caused bugs, including loss of notes and creation of empty folders.
Does not work with PDFs, which is a major limitation for researchers.
Export format (JSON) is not interoperable with other note apps.
Popups open when saving quotes, which can be disruptive.

Most mentioned

Best note-taking extension on Chrome.
Immensely important for local storage and privacy.
Improves quality of life and productivity.

Recent reviews

The most useful extension I have ever used.

Jared R (jared gmail), 2024-06-05

After discovering Research Notes (RN) several months ago, I now use it whenever I open a web browser. It is the best extension for storing notes about individual web pages on a computer (not someone's server!) and comparing them later within topics, further refined by tags. • At first, I used RN just to store notes for future references when visiting a web page of interest to me. • Then, I found it was very helpful to see web pages (actually, their clickable URLs) about offerings on a product or service I am shopping for, with my notes, grouped under one topic. • Eventually, because RN is so well-designed, reliable, and easy to use, it became my primary tool for searching the web for articles and books related to my science project. While still in the RN, I can group, sort, and compare search results to decide which ones to keep for reference or acquire materials they describe. The ability to save quotations and images from a web page helps their use as sources. • RN also allows me to save its data in a spreadsheet for further slicing and dicing. Alternatively, I can export RN data to a file and import it to (or merge with) RN on another computer.