Notes Maker

Highlight webpages and PDFs into clean, contextual Markdown notes. Drafts persist locally. Download as .md whenever you want.

Notes Maker turns the web (and your PDFs) into a clean Markdown notebook. Highlight a sentence, save the whole paragraph, or grab a heading — Notes Maker captures it as proper Markdown with the surrounding context (page title, heading hierarchy, a deep link back to the exact text), keeps a persistent draft for every page, and lets you download the whole thing as a `.md` file whenever you want. Everything stays on your machine. No accounts, no servers, no analytics, no telemetry. WHAT YOU CAN DO • Highlight on any webpage. Select text, pick a color from the floating toolbar, done. Yellow, green, blue, pink, orange, purple, and red. • Highlight on PDFs too. Notes Maker ships its own PDF viewer (built on PDF.js). Online PDFs auto-open in it. Local PDFs work after you flip on "Allow access to file URLs" on the extension card. You can also drag-and-drop a PDF straight onto the viewer. • Two ways to organize. Save every page to its own `.md` file, or create a named "Notebook" (think: research project) and pile highlights from many pages into one combined file. • Smart re-highlighting. Re-highlight the same text in a different color and Notes Maker just changes the color instead of duplicating. Highlight a phrase that's already inside a longer saved highlight and it gets linked as a sub-quote rather than added twice. Unhighlight removes the note. • Persistent drafts. Close the tab, restart your browser, come back next week — your highlights are still there, ready to keep growing or to export. • Download as Markdown. Per page, per notebook, or your entire library. Files include a heading path (e.g. "Chapter 2 › Section 2.1") and a permalink that jumps to the exact phrase via a text fragment. • Side panel UI. The full library, search, color filtering, notebook switcher — all in a side panel that stays out of the way of the page you're reading. • Keyboard-first. Ctrl+Shift+H (Cmd+Shift+H on Mac) saves the current selection. Ctrl+Shift+N opens the panel. PRIVACY Notes Maker is local-only. Your highlights, drafts, notebooks, and settings live in `chrome.storage.local` on your device. The extension makes zero network requests on its own. The only network access is when you (the user) point the PDF viewer at an online PDF — that's a normal browser fetch of the file you asked to open. No data is collected, transmitted, or sold. Ever. WHO IT'S FOR • Researchers building a literature review across many papers and blog posts. • Students taking notes from articles and PDFs. • Engineers reading docs and RFCs who want a clean, contextual log of "the thing I want to remember from this page." • Anyone who's tired of copy-pasting into a separate note-taking app and losing the source link, the heading, and the formatting. WHAT IT DOESN'T DO • It doesn't sync across devices (everything is local — export the `.md` and check it into git or Dropbox if you want sync). • It doesn't OCR scanned PDFs that have no text layer. • It doesn't ship its own AI features. Your notes are plain Markdown — feed them to whatever tool you like. Open the side panel from the toolbar icon (or Ctrl+Shift+N) to get started.