Roam Highlighter

Web highlighter for Roam Research

Roam Highlighter: Innovative Web highlighter Extension for Chrome

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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Extension stats

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:
Manifest version: 3
Permissions:
  • storage
  • tabs
  • contextMenus
Size: 587.78K
URLs: Website

Other platforms

Roam (v1.36.6)
4.33 (28) 6,798+
Not available on Firefox
Not available on Edge
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Extension 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

These summaries are automatically generated weekly using AI based on recent user reviews. Chrome Web Store does not verify user reviews, so some user reviews may be inaccurate, spammy, or outdated.
Pros
  • 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
Cons
  • 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
Most mentioned
  • Great service
  • Perfect for highlighting
  • Excellent extension
  • Loves the functionality
  • Developer actively working on improvements
User reviews
by Pablo del Castillo, 2024-09-02

После обновления ничего не остаётся.
by Я, 2024-06-20

i wish there is a way to undo some highlights that I no longer want.
by Hảo Nguyễn Quý, 2023-12-07
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Extension safety

Risk impact

Roam Highlighter requires a few sensitive permissions. Exercise caution before installing.

Risk likelihood

Roam Highlighter has earned a good reputation and can be trusted.

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