highlight2comment

Select text on the web, add a comment, save locally, and export Markdown.

This might be the most minimal highlighting tool you've ever seen. No colors to pick. You never have to wonder whether this line should be yellow or green. No storage decisions. Everything goes into one Markdown file. No account, no cloud, no tracking. Your notes stay on your machine. The whole flow is one step and a half: Select a sentence, write what you think about it, hit Enter. Done. The loop is closed. Why Markdown? Because your downstream is AI. Markdown is the best input format of the AI era. Everything you highlight and comment goes straight into a file you can hand to ChatGPT, Claude, or any AI. You know that moment when a whole article comes down to one sentence that actually speaks to you? The old routine: copy it, switch to your notes app, paste it, type a thought, and then honestly, forget where it went. highlight2comment does one thing. Select the sentence, add a quick comment if you want, hit Enter. Saved. The idea gets captured the second it shows up, and you never left the page. Everything lands in one Markdown log, numbered, with sources tucked into footnotes. Download it in one click, or let it write straight into your Obsidian vault. Feeding your reading notes to an AI? It's one file. Just drop it in. Free. Open source. No account, no cloud, zero network requests. Your notes live on your machine and nowhere else. One more thing: some sites block copy and paste. Selecting and commenting still works there. The most minimal highlighter ever. Select, comment, save, done. No colors, no folders, no account. Your Markdown feeds AI. Detailed description: This might be the most minimal highlighting tool you've ever seen. No colors to pick. You never have to wonder whether this line should be yellow or green. No storage decisions. Everything goes into one Markdown file. No account, no cloud, no tracking. Your notes stay on your machine. The whole flow is one step and a half: Select a sentence, write what you think about it, hit Enter. Done. The loop is closed. Why Markdown? Because your downstream is AI. Markdown is the best input format of the AI era. Everything you highlight and comment goes straight into a file you can hand to ChatGPT, Claude, or any AI. The most minimal highlighter ever. Select, comment, save, done. No colors, no folders, no account. Your Markdown feeds AI.