Roam Highlighter

Web highlighter for Roam Research

What is Roam Highlighter?

Roam Highlighter is a versatile Chrome extension designed to simplify your research process. It allows you to effortlessly highlight any text on a website and bring your highlights into context by adding tags. The highlighted text can be personalized to suit your preferences and instantly imported to note-taking platforms like Roam Research, Obsidian, Logseq, or Notion. This tool is perfectly suited for researchers, learners or those building a knowledge base.

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By: https://danielwirtz.com

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Users: 10,000+

Rating: 4.63 (56)

Version: 0.4.5 (Last updated: 2024-06-30)

Creation date: 2020-05-29

Risk impact: Moderate risk impact

Risk likelihood: Very low risk likelihood

Manifest version: 3

Permissions:

storage
tabs
contextMenus

Size: 587.78K

Email: he*****@danielwirtz.com

URLs: Website

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# 8348 ▼ 21

Other rankings

#706 in Workflow & Planning ▼ 2 #8 in highlighter keyword 42 ▼ 1 #139 in widget keyword 14 ▼ 12 #156 in research keyword 31 ▼ 7

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Extension summary

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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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