Yawas

Highlight Web pages; stored in your browser bookmarks, searchable, and recreated automatically when you revisit a page

What is Yawas?

Yawas is a Chrome extension for highlighting web pages and adding comments in your chosen colors. All your highlights and comments are stored in your browser's bookmarks, and are automatically recreated when you revisit a page. The extension allows you to highlight text, add notes and delete or change the color of a highlight all from the context menu. It also features a quick search option to find your bookmarks and an edit function to make changes easily. The Yawas extension is a handy tool for efficient web browsing.

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Users: 10,000+

Rating: 3.37 (194)

Version: 7.4.0 (Last updated: 2022-03-16)

Creation date: 2020-04-01

Risk impact: Moderate risk impact

Risk likelihood: Very low risk likelihood

Manifest version: 3

Permissions:

activeTab
storage
contextMenus
tabs
bookmarks

Size: 52.24K

Email: ld*****@gmail.com

URLs: Website ,Privacy policy

Ranking

# 7698 ▼ 31

Other rankings

#3510 in Workflow & Planning ▲ 7 #174 in highlighter keyword 41 ▼ 5 #227 in web keyword 78 ▲ 8

Other platforms

Yawas Web Highlighter (v7.3.9)

3.38

(32) 613

Yawas (v7.3.2)

2.10

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Extension summary

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Yawas lets you highlight and comment web pages in multiple colors.

Your highlights are stored in the built-in Chrome Bookmarks API (you need to check Sync if you want them to be synchronized across all your devices).

Yawas automatically recreates the highlights when you reopen web pages.

All functions are available from the context-menu (Ctrl-Shift-Y for Yellow) To highlight, simply select some text and choose the color from the context menu. To add a note or comment, mouse over an existing highlight and pick "Add Note" (or the keyboard shortcut -N). To recolor or delete a highlight, select some of its text and choose another color or "Delete" from the context-menu.

You can also quickly search all your bookmarks with "Yawas - Search" or edit the current page's highlights using "Yawas - Edit".

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 Chrome Web Store does not verify user reviews, so some user reviews may be inaccurate, spammy, or outdated.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

Useful for highlighting text on web pages
Saves bookmarks even if the page is closed
Simple and easy to use for highlighting
Good for studying and research

Cons

Frequently loses highlights after page refresh
No option to delete highlights
Issues with highlighting on certain pages
Inconsistencies in saving highlights, especially with PDF files

Most mentioned

Highlights are frequently lost or disappear
Lack of response from support when issues arise
Desire for more organizational features, like custom folders
App is appreciated but acknowledges bugs and areas for improvement

User reviews

Péssimo! Não é funcional e te deixa na mão

MARIA YASMIN DE MORAIS RAFAEL, 2024-08-18

Não é funcional, ... o que é uma pena. A proposta é super interessante.

Igor Alencar, 2024-07-26

It works pretty good for me, I like it, but it has a feature that bothers me and a bug(I guess?): Feature: I can only find my highlighted pages under the folder of the month. I highlight those sentences because I might want to get back to it later, like months or even years later and I won't remember which folder should I look into - I believe if there would be a folder called 'new' (where the newly highlighted pages go) and if we could make new, custom folders and move the pages from one to another would be a big help. The bug: or I might just be dumb, but after clicking on the "Import" button ('Import your Google Bookmarks (you need to be signed in) into Chrome Bookmarks. This will create a 'Yawas' folder at the root of your Chrome Bookmarks) I lost all of my pages from the folder and don't find it anywhere (as there is no Yawas folder in the root). I am in the middle of a book and had (thank God, 'just') 2 chapters highlighted but now they are gone.