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Tool to highlight and annotate text on websites?

This isn't a coding question per se however it relates to it. I apologise if it this in the incorrect place as I wasn't quite sure where else to post it.

I am new to the world of coding and as I leap from one web page to another learning about PHP, XHTML, etc and I often find parts of an article , forum, etc interesting. I currently bookmark the pages I like however what I would really like to be able to do is highlight the part that interests me and save it so that when I return to the page again, all I have to do is look for the highlighted part or parts. Does anyone know of such a addon or extension I can use with my browser?

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Be great if the tool integrated with Google Bookmarks or Firefox Synchronization

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  • Not that I'm aware of, but you've definitely given me and potentially a few other coders a great idea! –  May 05 '11 at 20:41
  • What you're looking for is called [web annotation](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_annotation). – CanSpice May 05 '11 at 20:44
  • This seems pretty close (firefox extension): http://www.makeuseof.com/dir/awesomehighlighter/ – ChristopheD May 05 '11 at 20:44
  • @Paul Zaczkowski - I am full of ideas. One of the many reasons I am picking up coding. Be great to work with a team of developers/coders on any number of ideas I am continually coming up with :-) –  May 05 '11 at 20:44
  • @CanSpice - Thanks. Do you know of any existing tools I can use? –  May 05 '11 at 20:45
  • @ChristopheD - Thanks. I had a look at that but it is extremely slow and doesn't integrate with say my Google bookmarks or Firefox synchronization –  May 05 '11 at 20:46
  • It's not a browser extension, and is not free, but `Microsoft OneNote` is excellent for this. I have not tried it, but it could be worth checking if `EverNote` can automatically tag URLs to pasted notes as well. – paradroid May 05 '11 at 21:19
  • @paradroid - Thanks. Might have a look at One/Ever Note. @Mehper C. Palavuzlar - It is similar and thanks for pointing it out. Will go through it. – PeanutsMonkey May 05 '11 at 22:36

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http://www.makeuseof.com/dir/awesomehighlighter/

This highlighter does what your asking of it.

  • @Greg Agnew - Thanks. I had a look at that but it is extremely slow and doesn't integrate with say my Google bookmarks or Firefox synchronization – PeanutsMonkey May 05 '11 at 20:53
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Wired Marker is an option for Firefox that does exactly that.

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  • @jonsca - Looks like what I was looking for. Not sure if it integrates with Google bookmarks though so that I can access the information elsewhere without having the tool installed. – PeanutsMonkey May 05 '11 at 20:50
  • @PeanutsMonkey I'm pretty sure it's local access only, but there's probably a config/data file that you can keep with you on a flash drive or email around. – jonsca May 05 '11 at 20:53
  • @jonsca - yeah I read about that about it's rather inconvenient especially if I forget to bring my flash drive like I did today. They do suggest using dropbox but again be cool if there was a tool that integrated with existing services such as Google Bookmarks. – PeanutsMonkey May 05 '11 at 20:55
  • @PeanutsMonkey They've got contact info on the site, it couldn't hurt to put in a feature request ;) – jonsca May 05 '11 at 20:58
  • @jonsca - Will certainly do. Thanks for your help. – PeanutsMonkey May 05 '11 at 21:00
  • @PeanutsMonkey: `Google Notebook` is pretty much exactly what you want, but they have discontinued it, and it is now only available to legacy users. However, `Google Bookmarks` now has most of its features. – paradroid May 05 '11 at 21:23
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Heres a firefox addon:

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/firefox/addon/highlighter/

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If you want to share your interesting clips with others, or want access to your clips from other computers, you could try out ClipMarks.

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