Highlighting & Annotations
Highlight important passages, add notes, and export your annotations to external tools.
Creating Highlights
- Select text in the reader
- A floating toolbar appears with options:
- Color picker — Choose from 6 colors (yellow, green, blue, purple, red, orange)
- Tags — Optionally tag the highlight for organization
- Note — Add a personal annotation
- Click Save Highlight to persist
Highlights work in article, PDF, and EPUB readers. Each reader uses a position format appropriate to the content type (scroll position for articles, bounding rectangles for PDFs, CFI strings for EPUBs).
Managing Highlights
In the Reader
- Highlights are visually applied to the text
- Click the Highlights button in the reader header to open the highlights sidebar
- From the sidebar, jump to any highlight, edit the note, or delete it
Highlights Page
Visit /highlights for a unified view of all your highlights across all articles:
- Search across highlight text
- Filter by color to find specific categories
- Filter by tag for thematic grouping
- Bulk select for batch operations (delete, tag)
Exporting Highlights
Export your highlights from the Highlights page using the Export button. Available formats:
| Format | Description |
|---|---|
| Markdown | Flat list of highlights with article titles |
| Markdown (grouped) | Highlights organized by source article |
| Obsidian | Markdown with YAML frontmatter and [[wiki links]] for Obsidian vault integration |
| JSON | Structured data for programmatic use |
| Plaintext | Clean text without formatting |
| ZIP | Archive containing all formats |
Obsidian Export
The Obsidian format is designed to drop directly into an Obsidian vault:
- YAML frontmatter with title, author, URL, and tags
- Highlights formatted as blockquotes with color indicators
- Notes appear below their associated highlight
- Wiki-link references for cross-article connections
See Obsidian Integration for setup details.
AI-Suggested Highlights
Subscribers receive AI-generated highlight suggestions that surface connections across their library. These appear on the Insights page.
When you accept a suggested highlight, it becomes a regular highlight — visible on the Highlights page and included in exports.
Tips
- Use consistent colors for categories (e.g., yellow for key ideas, blue for quotes, red for disagreements)
- Add tags to highlights to build a searchable knowledge base
- Use notes to capture your own thinking alongside the author's words
- Export regularly to Obsidian to keep your vault in sync