Web Highlighter & Notes – Hilitely

Highlight a passage and find it again after reload. Stored as a quote on this computer, not as a place in the page.

Most tools remember where a sentence sat in the layout. When the page is redesigned, the mark disappears. Hilitely remembers the words and a little of the text around them, so the highlight comes back after a reload, a redesign, or a week away. How it works • Click the toolbar icon and switch the site on. Chrome asks once, for that one site only. • Select text. A small bar appears under the passage with five colors, a note, tags, and Copy as Markdown. • Click a highlight later to change its color, note, or tags, or to delete it. • Reload the page or come back later. Hilitely finds your highlights again by their text. • If the words are gone, the quote stays in your library as "not found". It is not deleted, and the highlight returns if the text comes back. Library • Quotes grouped by site and page, newest pages first. • Search, filter by tag, sort sites, open a quote, and jump to it on the page. • Copy a quote as Markdown with the page title, link, and date. • Download a JSON backup and import it on another computer. Import adds quotes and never overwrites the ones you already have. On the page • A highlight can span several paragraphs and headings. • Overlapping highlights stay visible, each in its own color. • Step through the highlights on a page from the toolbar popup. • Print the page from the same popup. Highlight colors show up in the printout; notes and tags are left out. • Text stays readable on dark pages. • Works when text loads later, and on sites that change the address without a full reload. Private by design • No account, no server, no analytics. The extension makes no network requests. • Everything stays in your browser on this computer. • The extension can't read a site until you switch it on. Switch a site off or remove its access at any time. Saved quotes stay in the library. Not in this version • PDF files, Google Docs, canvas-based editors, and embedded frames from other sites. • Sync between computers. Move the library with the backup file instead. Questions, or a page where a highlight did not come back? Write to hilitely.dev@gmail.com.