This extension offers an easy way to highlight text on a web page and import it to note-taking apps like Roam Research, Obsidian, Loqseq 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
PERMISSIONS:
Roam Highlighter needs to modify the websites you visit to display the widget. That’s why it needs the requested permissions to function properly. However, the exact phrase (“Read and change all your data on the website you visit”) make it sound more invasive than it actually is. Currently, the extension runs completely on your local machine and the only thing that is saved, are the settings you make.
Hello, developer! Thanks for your great work!
This plug-in is really useful. It provides a flexible way to mark any websites.
But sadly, it goes on badly with Chinese websites. You can’t accurately choose these Chinese characters you want. I hope one day this problem can be solved.
Like others, I would like the ability to clip the entire article (similar to Notion Saver), but this is the best of the highlighter tools I have come across for Roam. It gets 5-stars because it allows me to set my metadata header info, apply tags, and all for free from a generous community member.
Amazing to have this tool that works flawlessly with Roam Research. Thanks!
Such a simple and great extension, thanks for the work.
2 things to make it better:
– When you highlight a word with a closing parenthesis, it doesn’t include it automatically.
– Support better comment feature. Right now I’m adding the comments before the tags, but then the extensions suggests me the whole comment when typing tags on future highlights
This is so simple and smooth. Thank you for this. I use it all the time.
very useful
super sinnvoll! Danke dir
This is the most efficient highlighting extension I’ve found. New update is very smooth, changes to this version are useful and well-considered.
A great extension for Roam users. Love the thoughtful design that went into this.
This is a brilliant way to pull highlights into Roam… many at once, keeping formatting, with titles and link. Love it, thank you!
This is the best of the Roam Highlighters. It’s clean, simple, and extremely easy to use tool for pulling web content into Roam. Grabbing the Title and link is a single click. Add highlighted text (with formatting) as blocks nested below the title. It’s the only tool I’ve tested that works perfectly both in Windows and in ChromeOS. Fabulous!
This is my favorite highlighter tool! An absolute gem.
This is certainly useful, but better would be something that saves entire web pages into a searchable archive, like the Evernote web clipper. The reason is that I sometimes find that my highlights and notes were missing something, and to get that something, I have to go back and reread the original. This can be hard to do if you rely upon a page or tweet to still exist on the ephemeral web.
Also, when I write notes, I almost never copy in chunks of literal article text. Instead, I highlight while reading, and then go back through the highlights, writing down points in my own words.
But maybe I’d still like to somehow link to those highlights…
Great app. The best highlighter app for Roam I’ve tried. Good UI
Thanks very much
Quick and easy way to get articles into Roam
Easily the single-most used Chrome extension if my daily workflow.
not support Chinese, 😭
Geil, hilft mir jeden Tag!
Would be a great without the bug: Not sure if this has to do with language/OS/browser, the highlighter never, and I mean never, highlight the exact paragraph. It always drifts to at least one line before and after the text I’m highlighting, making this plug in essentially unusable. I really hope you guys fix this. would be a great product. Cheers.
fantastic. this is so slick. works great!
as Roam Research has not yet an API, this extension is the closest you can get to get bookmarks and text snippets into Roam
Nice Work, but sometimes still a bit buggy…therefore not 5 stars…yet.
Really cool app and smart just like Roam. Thanks a lot!
Fantastic work. Super helpful, beautifully designed. Thank you!
Amazing, love it, i tried all the roam highlighter, this is by far the best!
It also allows to highlight multiple sections in a text and then copy them all at once.