Selectiophile

Highlight and comment on web pages, file each under the right heading of your Obsidian note, and keep the page as the original.

Selectiophile is for people who read papers on the web and keep notes in Obsidian. Highlight a passage, add a comment if you like, and it lands under the right heading of the right note. The page itself can be saved to your vault too, as an original your notes link back to. HIGHLIGHT AND COMMENT • Select text and click a color or press Alt+S; press Alt+C to comment first. • Six colors, each with a purpose you name, such as finding, method or idea. • Highlights come back when you reopen the page; click one to recolor, comment, move or delete it. • Press Alt+R to write a short comment on the whole page. FILED IN THE RIGHT PLACE • Papers are matched to an existing note by DOI, arXiv ID, address or title; if there is none, one is created from your template. • An optional AI routing service (Jev, with your own key) chooses the heading. When unsure, it lists options for a number key. • AI only decides where things go; quotes and comments are written exactly as they are. Without a key, you choose the heading yourself. • Highlight in AI chat pages too; the conversation is linked to the relevant notes. • Pin a note to send every highlight to it. KEEP THE ORIGINAL • Clip the page into your vault as Markdown: original text only (no translations), formulas as LaTeX. • Citations and figures become links within the file, and each highlight in a note points to its paragraph in the original. • Each clip is checked against the page, with a warning if it looks incomplete. YOUR TEMPLATES, YOUR FOLDERS • Sort pages into document types, such as papers and articles, each with its own template, folders and clipping settings. • Metadata configs use the Web Clipper JSON format; configs for several common paper publishers are included. • A dashboard note lists recent notes and clipped originals (requires the Dataview plugin). • Allowlist, blocklist and all-sites modes; backup and restore; two themes; English and Chinese interfaces. PRIVACY • No account, no server, no analytics. Notes and originals are plain Markdown files in the folder you choose. • Without a key, nothing is sent. With one, what filing needs goes 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 the conversation. Clipping sends nothing.