Roam Highlighter: Innovative Web highlighter Extension for Chrome
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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 → Add tags to bring your highlights into context → Customise the format of your copied highlights with placeholders → 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 twitter.com/wirtzdan
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- Very easy to use
- Efficient in highlighting text
- Works well with various note-taking apps including Roam and Obsidian
- Allows capturing of highlighted text with screenshots for context
- Praise for creator Daniel's responsiveness and support
- No option to add quotation marks to copied text
- Inability to undo highlights
- Does not support highlighting on large websites
- Limited support for PDFs
- Reported issues with Chinese language support
- Great service
- Perfect for highlighting
- Excellent extension
- Loves the functionality
- Developer actively working on improvements
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Roam Highlighter requires a few sensitive permissions. Exercise caution before installing.
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Roam Highlighter has earned a good reputation and can be trusted.
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