BrowseNotes

Your memory layer for the web. Private, positional notes anchored to any web page.

BrowseNotes turns any web page into your personal notebook. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ THE PROBLEM You read something useful online. A key paragraph in a documentation page. A product detail you want to remember. A quote that matters. But there's no way to leave a note right there on the page — anchored to the exact spot where you found it. Bookmarks don't help. They save the page, not the context. Copy-pasting into a separate app breaks your flow. And browser history just tells you where you went, not what you thought. BrowseNotes fixes this. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ HOW IT WORKS Select any text on any web page, right-click, and choose "Add BrowseNotes note here." A small note card appears exactly where you selected. Write your thought, pick a color, add tags. Done. Come back to that page tomorrow, next week, or next month — your note is still there, exactly where you left it. Like a Post-it stuck to the internet. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ FREE FEATURES — NO ACCOUNT REQUIRED ✦ Add notes to any web page — anchored to specific text ✦ 3 notes per page, 10 pages total ✦ 5 note colors (yellow, blue, green, pink, purple) ✦ Text formatting: bold, italic, and code ✦ 5 tags per note with autocomplete ✦ Tag filter pills — quickly find notes by topic ✦ Pin important notes to the top (up to 10) ✦ Timeline view — see notes grouped by day (last 7 days) ✦ Search notes on the current page ✦ Delete individual notes ✦ Export all notes as JSON or Markdown ✦ Automatic light and dark theme ✦ Keyboard shortcut: Ctrl+Shift+E ✦ Auto-open toast when revisiting a page with notes ✦ Zero tracking — all notes stay on your device ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ PRO FEATURES — ONE-TIME PURCHASE, YOURS FOREVER Upgrade to Pro for €9.99 (one payment, no subscription) and unlock: ✦ Unlimited notes, pages, and tags ✦ No character limit on notes ✦ Universal search (Alt+K) — search across ALL your notes on ALL pages, instantly ✦ Text highlights — select text and mark it with 4 highlight colors, persists between visits ✦ Delete individual highlights ✦ Full timeline — see all notes from any date, not just the last 7 days ✦ Pro license works on up to 5 devices ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ WHY BROWSENOTES? Most note-taking extensions force you into their cloud, require an account, or lose your notes when the page changes. BrowseNotes is different: → ANCHORED, not floating. Notes stick to the exact text you selected — even if the page layout changes. → PERSISTENT. Notes survive page refreshes, browser restarts, and URL changes with query parameters. → PRIVATE. Everything is stored locally on your device. No cloud, no account, no tracking. We never see your notes. → SMART ANCHORING. Five fallback strategies ensure your notes find their position even when pages update: exact text match → context text → CSS selector → XPath → scroll position. → LIGHTWEIGHT. Under 100KB. Zero impact on browser performance. Pages without notes get zero overhead. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ PERFECT FOR → Researchers annotating sources across dozens of pages → Students marking key passages in online materials → Developers leaving reminders on documentation pages → Shoppers comparing products with personal notes → Writers collecting inspiration from across the web → Anyone who reads online and thinks "I need to remember this" ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ PRIVACY BY DESIGN BrowseNotes stores everything locally using Chrome's built-in storage APIs. Your notes never leave your device. The only network request the extension ever makes is to validate Pro license keys — and that request contains zero note data, zero browsing data, zero personal information. No analytics. No telemetry. No data collection. Period. Read our full privacy policy: https://browseby.app/privacy-policy ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS Q: Is BrowseNotes really free? A: Yes. The free version is fully functional with no time limits, no ads, and no account required. Pro is an optional upgrade for power users who want unlimited notes and advanced features. Q: What happens if a web page changes? A: BrowseNotes uses five fallback strategies to find the original position of your note. If the exact text moves, it tries context clues, CSS selectors, XPath, and finally scroll position. A small warning badge appears if the position may have shifted. Q: Does BrowseNotes collect my notes or browsing data? A: No. All notes, tags, and highlights are stored locally on your device. We never see, collect, or transmit any of your data. Q: Can I export my notes? A: Yes. Both free and Pro users can export all notes as JSON (for backup) or Markdown (for Obsidian, Notion, etc.). Q: Is the Pro upgrade a subscription? A: No. It's a one-time payment of €9.99. You pay once, it's yours forever. No recurring charges. Q: Does it work on all websites? A: BrowseNotes works on virtually any website. Some browser-internal pages (chrome://, about:) are restricted by Chrome and don't support extensions. Q: Does it work on Mac, Windows, and Linux? A: Yes. BrowseNotes works on any platform where Chrome runs — Windows, macOS, Linux, and ChromeOS. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ BUILT BY BROWSEBY BrowseNotes is the second product from Browseby — a small studio building browser tools that respect your time and your privacy. Also by Browseby: Quick Reopen — instantly search and reopen closed tabs, even from days ago. Questions, feedback, or feature requests? Reach us at team@browseby.app