Lectiophile

Highlight and comment on web pages, and save each one under the right heading of the right Obsidian note.

Lectiophile is for people who read on the web and keep notes in Obsidian. Highlight a passage, add a comment if you like, and it is written under the right heading of the right note, while you keep reading. HIGHLIGHT AND COMMENT • Select text and click a color, or press Alt+S. Press Alt+C to write a comment first. • Six colors, each with a purpose you can name, such as finding, method or idea. • Highlights come back when you reopen the page, and stay in place when the page redraws itself. • Click a highlight to change its color, add or edit its comment, move it or delete it. FILED IN THE RIGHT PLACE • Papers are matched to an existing note by DOI, arXiv ID, address or title. Ordinary articles are matched by address and title. • If there is no note yet, one is created from your template. Paper notes are named by first author, year and a short title. • An optional AI routing service (Jev, using your own key) chooses the heading. Above the confidence level you set, it saves straight away. Below it, you see the options and press a number key. • You can highlight in AI chat pages too. The first highlight links the conversation to your notes, and later ones go to the linked notes. • Pin a note to send everything to it for a while. A wrong guess takes one click to move. AI NEVER WRITES YOUR NOTES • AI only decides where a highlight goes. Quotes and comments are written exactly as they are. • Without a key, everything still works: you choose the heading yourself. YOUR TEMPLATES, YOUR FOLDERS • Upload your own note templates and tie them to sites, with wildcards. • Send new notes from each template to the subfolder you choose. • Load metadata configs in the Web Clipper JSON format to fill in frontmatter and file names. Three common paper publishers are included. • A dashboard note lists your recently annotated notes (requires the Dataview community plugin). ONLY ON THE SITES YOU CHOOSE • Add a site from the toolbar in one click. Allowlist, blocklist and all-sites modes are available. • Two color themes, and an English or Chinese interface. • Back up and restore highlight positions, colors and settings from the settings page. PRIVACY • No account, no server, no analytics. Notes are plain Markdown files in the folder you choose on your computer. • If you add a Jev key, the text needed to decide where a highlight goes is sent to Jev (TypeSafe AI): the highlight, comment, paragraph, page title and address, and the titles and headings of candidate notes. The first highlight on an AI chat page also sends the first rounds of that conversation. Without a key, nothing is sent. BEFORE YOU START 1. Choose the folder in your Obsidian vault that holds your notes. Chrome may ask you to confirm access again after a restart. 2. Optional: a Jev API key for automatic filing.