SourceShelf — Research Clips

Save quotes with their sources. Organize research in folders, then export citation briefs. Free, private, and fully customizable.

📚 Your research, saved & citable — in one click. SourceShelf keeps the quotes you find while reading, together with the exact page they came from. Highlight a passage, save it, and write later with the citation already in hand. Everything stays in your browser. No account. No sync server. No telemetry. Ever. ⚡ SAVE ANY QUOTE IN ONE STEP • Highlight text, then right-click → "Save selection to SourceShelf" • Or hit the toolbar button to save the page as it stands • Add a note about why the source matters, plus up to 12 labels • The source page, title, and address are captured automatically 📁 CREATE A FOLDER IN SECONDS • The popup's "Save to folder" menu has a "Create a new folder" link right below it — name it and it's ready for the very next save • The library has a New folder button beside Rename and Delete • Folders are unlimited (up to 500), and deleting one never deletes the quotes inside it — they move back to Inbox 🔍 FIND IT AGAIN, FAST • Search across quotes, page titles, notes, labels, and source addresses • Filter by folder; switch between a card and a compact list layout • Full JSON backup and restore, whenever you want one ✍️ CITE IT WITHOUT BREAKING FLOW • Copy a formatted citation for any saved quote • Export a Markdown brief or a CSV table of everything you filtered to • Pasting into an essay, a report, or a spreadsheet is one click 🎨 MAKE IT YOURS • Theme: match your system, or force light or dark • Accent color: eight presets or any custom color • Density, text size, and card-vs-list layout • The dark, compact, large-text look in our screenshots is a real setting you can pick 🔒 PRIVATE BY DESIGN • Saved quotes, folders, and preferences live in Chrome's local extension storage, for this profile only • Nothing is uploaded, synchronized, or shared • No analytics, no accounts, no ads, no "sign in to continue" 🆓 COMPLETELY FREE Every feature is free with no limits and no paid tier. The only caps are storage sanity guards: 100,000 quotes and 500 folders per library, and 8 MiB per backup file. Perfect for Students writing papers · researchers building a literature base · journalists collecting sources · writers gathering references · analysts who need receipts · anyone who has ever thought "I know I read that somewhere." How it works, in three steps Highlight something worth keeping Right-click and save it (add a note or a label if you like) Search, cite, or export it whenever you need it Install SourceShelf and give your next piece of writing a head start. 📎