Research Notes
Bookmark, tag or add notes to pages, highlight and save quotes or images, save selected Google searches, filter out search results.
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4.30
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spammy, or outdated. 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.
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4.20
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| Date | Author | Rating | Lang | Comment |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021-08-06 |  | | en | Great notes app that works across multiple webpages. Data persists if you turn off and on the extension, and can import/export notes easily. Edit: -2 stars for pushing an update that deletes all my notes. I know was a bug, but a single event like that negates the convenience of the extension. The export is in json so it isn't very interoperable with other note apps anyway. |
| 2024-06-05 |  | | en | The most useful extension I have ever used. |
| 2022-04-18 |  | | en | Amazing lightweight but super useful tool. I can't live without it now. 2024 EDIT: Three years later and still perfect. This is the most underrated extension in the webstore. |
| 2024-03-17 |  | | en | 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. |
| 2023-07-18 |  | | WARNING: This extension just went crazy, creating close to 30 new _empty_ folders in my bookmarks. Developer, please update your app! | |
| 2023-07-18 |  | | en | WARNING: This extension just went crazy, creating close to 30 new _empty_ folders in my bookmarks. Developer, please update your app! |
| 2023-07-06 |  | | Awesome！！！Thanks developer!!! That would be better if we can see the context for the highlight and can export notes to markdown files | |
| 2023-07-06 |  | | en | Awesome！！！Thanks developer!!! That would be better if we can see the context for the highlight and can export notes to markdown files |
| 2023-06-01 |  | | 非常强悍的插件，即可以当笔记，也可以当导航 | |
| 2023-06-01 |  | | zh | 非常强悍的插件，即可以当笔记，也可以当导航 |
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