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Interesting way to highlight text on web pages in Chrome and save them for later
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There is this tool called Super Simple Highlighter that I came across, which is an extension for Google Chrome and it can be used to highlight text on web pages and save them for later

It can be installed from https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/super-simple-highlighter/hhlhjgianpocpoppaiihmlpgcoehlhio?hl=en

So here's how you can use it once you've installed the extension. Visit any site and select the text you wish, do a right click and you will see an option called Super Simple Highlighter in the context menu as below

   

You may then wish to select any color of your choice to highlight the selected text and it will be saved. If you now were to revisit the site, you will see the highlight there. I selected red for the text and here’s how it looks.  

   

Plus, you can highlight as many extracts as you want on a web page with different colors as you can see below. One of them is in grey and the other is in green

   

If you happen to be on the page where the highlights are, you can simply click the Highlighter icon once the page has loaded completely, and you will see all the highlights of that page in a sequence

   

The best part is that these highlights are saved for future reference and they don’t reset if you clear the browser history or if you remove the local cookies, which makes me think that the highlights are saved in a server

If you want to access them, you just have to click on the ‘Super Simple Highlighter ’ icon from the top, select Options and once there, select Pages as illustrated below

   

   

If you select Styles, you can explore the other options that are included like changing the highlight definition colors, setting the opacity of the colors and more

   

There are some similar browser extensions out there like highly which is in its beta version, and I've tried that as well but feel that Super Simple Highlighter makes it a bit more easier
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#2
super jub
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#3
Very nice
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(05-14-2016, 12:11 PM)Compton Wrote:  super jub

Thanks, Compton

(05-14-2016, 12:39 PM)Britec Wrote:  Very nice

Thanks, Brian
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A Highlighter...I love it.
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(05-14-2016, 12:52 PM)Timster Wrote:  A Highlighter...I love it.

yeah, me too.. thanks!
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I just wanted to share an update with everyone. I've just been told by their support that the saved highlights are actually saved on the local client where it is installed and not on a server as I thought initially.

Nevertheless, your saved highlights will stay saved even if the browser history or the cookies are cleared and that itself is an amazing thing

It would be interesting to know how the highlights are retained
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