penciled – Highlighter & Notes for any web page

Highlight text and take notes on any website. Your highlights come back when you return. Nothing leaves your browser.

Highlight text and take notes on any website, like reading with a pencil in hand. Your highlights come back every time you return to the page. • Select text and pick a color to highlight it. Add a note to remember why. • Click penciled's toolbar button to see the page's highlights, and jump to any of them. • The notes page lists every highlight from every site, with search. • Export your notes as a backup or as Markdown, and import them in another browser. • Make it yours: your own colors, a light or dark toolbar, or a toolbar that only opens when you press Alt+A. • Hide highlights on a tab with Alt+Shift+H, or turn penciled off for a whole site. • Looks right on dark websites too. Private by design penciled has no account, no servers and no analytics. It makes no network requests: your highlights are saved in your browser and never leave it. It's open source, so you can check: https://github.com/marcellosso/penciled Highlights never change the page itself. They're drawn by the browser, so pages keep working exactly as before. If a page changes so much that penciled can't be sure where a highlight belongs, it doesn't guess: it lists the highlight as not found, so you can still read or delete it. Not supported yet: text inside frames (such as embedded posts), PDFs, and text fields. Highlights don't sync between computers; use export and import to move them. Built on penciled, the open-source text annotation library: https://penciled.org