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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Summary
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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User reviews summary
Pros
- Easy to use
- Effective highlighter tool for web pages
- Allows customization and retains format of highlighted content
- Links and captures pages efficiently
Cons
- Does not support large web pages
- Struggles with highlighting Chinese characters
- Does not work with PDFs
- Does not save entire web pages like other tools
- Lack of commenting feature for highlights
Most mentioned
- Useful for Roam Research and other note-taking apps
- Allows capture of title, link, and highlighted text
- Works well with Roam and Obsidian
- Developer responsiveness
Safety
Risk impact
Roam Highlighter is risky to use as it requires a number of sensitive permissions that can potentially harm your browser and steal your data. Exercise caution when installing this extension. Review carefully before installing. We recommend that you only install Roam Highlighter if you trust the publisher.
Risk likelihood
Roam Highlighter has earned a good reputation and can be trusted.
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