Super Simple Highlighter
Make permanent, private highlights on any web page.
This extension lets you make highlights on any web page, and subsequently attempts to restore those highlights when you revisit the page.
This process is completely private. The location and contents of your highlights never leave your browser.
A variety of highlight styles are available, with built-in styles including basic colors, redaction, blurs etc. Highlights can be made via the mouse or a keyboard shortcut.
The highlights on a single page can be navigated to from a single popup dialog, and a summary of the page's highlights are also available to view, print, or save.
NOTE:
- The extension does *NOT* sync across your devices.
- There are many factors that may cause highlights not to be successfully restored on subsequent visits.
For more details, see the help page.
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It'd be wonderful if your highlighted pages wouldn't disappear. I've highlighted lots of laws in order to study and it takes a lot of time. I don't understand why it keeps getting deleted after some time. Any little change to the web makes them disappear? The strange thing is that I can load a backup and it restores all my work, so I don't see the correlation. If I could merge my backups it'd be great, as I rely on the extension to work, but suddenly I see everything is gone and I had many hours spent on my backup and many hours spent on my current version. So it forces me to lose one of the two, instead of being able to merge my backup with my current work somehow.
finally an addon that doesn't force me to make a BS account to add 5 lines of CSS... thanks.
perfect
Very useful!
So good for doing research, really helpful and very pretty colours!!
Working great has helped me 100% games like Elden Ring which is a massive game.
What is happening. All my work keep disappearing. From all my articles.
Super Simple Highlighter is a perfect and error-free highlighter that I am using in my research. Great for highlighting text in articles.
Didn't Work
It's a good one, but I need keyboard shortcuts for highlighting.
a+
Great wittle tool
love it, and great book recommendation.
Great Highlighter, unfortunately quite unreliable. The highlighted text isn't permanent. Extension keeps the highlight for say 2-4 days and then auto-delete the highlights, beyond that period so if you visit the page after say a week most likely your highlights are gone. Tested on more than one site. Dev notes in FAQ that it could be due to change in sites markup but I can tell you tested on multiple sites with same issue. Highlights are gone after certain time-period.
Has worked once in the last 2ish years I've had it... don't get it.
It's nice while in use, but does not save and show your highlights after refreshing the page.
Never works. Nothing simple about it.
This is probably the most helpful tool for studying. The fact that you can colour code highlights is so useful for reviewing and note making. I'm using this for my school speech. Research has never been easier!!!!
it is bad
Works great for me! Super useful when researching for homework.
Good extension, but I can't continue using it as when it's enabled, I cannot use the Command + Z shortcut in Google Docs.
Is there any way to make this work with chatGPT conversations? It would be so helpful to be able to highlight different passages.
great
It should highlight. Why it requests my history?
Is working for me on Chrome, but won't work on Brave. Stopped working yesterday on Brave. I had been successfully using it for years.
It isn't working well for me now, is anyone else having any issues? Before this it worked perfectly for years
Doesn't work well in Gmail, whenever I highlight a few words it jumps back and only highlights one word instead.
update 10/16/2024 Suddenly stopped working with a recent upgrade in chrome. I like how it works and how it maintains the highlights when you re-open the pages. But found a problem. Opened it today 4/1 and all the previous months marks were gone from one page I do check offs on. Its a calendar page with events that are marked after completion.
update 10/16/2024 Suddenly stopped working with a recent upgrade in chrome. I like how it works and how it maintains the highlights when you re-open the pages. But found a problem. Opened it today 4/1 and all the previous months marks were gone from one page I do check offs on. Its a calendar page with events that are marked after completion.
Been using it since before I graduated highschool in 21' its amazing and helps with whatever i'm doing regardless of the subject.
Super simple, yet full of options for user customization.
Work on dynamic content like AWS documentation sites. Which most other extensions for highlighting words are failed.
Seems to work on most pages except MSN news pages which, of course, has more to do with whatever crazy stuff MSN does to render their news story pages and not with the highliter tool. It would be nice but for free I'm not complaining.
I can't get this to work consistently. I mark what I want to highlight...I go up to the marker icon...and sometimes it reveals all kinds of colors to mark with and sometimes, it just takes me back to the info or download page. When it's working...it's a PAC (Piece A Cake)...otherwise it's a piece a coal.
Have been using it for a long time and now does not work on ANY site. There was a recent update to Chrome so dont know if this has any reason for the loss of use. Can you please advise? Once again it does not work on ANY site. I have removed and reinstalled yet no change. Thank you.
It works well on most of the pages. Just hope it can create sidenote as well.
seems like an awesome extension but not being able to highlight PDFs is definitely a huge draw back
Not sure if it's just me but sometimes my hotkeys doesn't work.
Set your preferred keybinding and highlight without touching mouse. Its amazing, many thnks for doing this great job!
This extension is AMAZING! How did I go so long without it?! It truly is super simple and easy to use, as well as very customizable. Just select some text, right-click, and set the highlight. There's a bunch of preloaded highlight styles and you can edit them or add new ones. You can also set overlapping highlights (so like a big block of yellow highlighter and then add underline to some portion of that and then bold to some portion of THAT). Lets you mark/organize any webpage however you desire. THIS IS SO HELPFUL! Seriously Idk how I never used this before. If you keep pages bookmarked to reference, this is a MUST HAVE extension.
Loved it
This is the best chrome extension of its kind. - customizable keyboard bindings - customizable highlight colors + customizable TEXT colors of what you highlight - in addition to highlighting, it can also bold and strikethrough - magnifies: this makes the text larger - quotes: creates what I call a 'callout' - redacts: hides the content, useful for quizzing yourself It does all of this WITHOUT interrupting/covering anything else on the website, it's like magic BUT WAIT THERE'S MORE - stores all your highlights in a very simple and convenient way, and can READ THEM TO YOU OUT LOUD - exports in markdown format The only thing this is missing is the ability to annotate, but frankly this extension does more than enough, it almost feels rude to ask for more Dev, I appreciate you so much, you've made learning (studying to be a dev / SWE myself) much faster for me
seamless and fabulous.. can you perhaps add other options though for color, texture, shadow, and a more realistic typical yellow highlighter option? thanks in advance
Simple and Easy to use, saves all my highlighted notes in labeled websites, lots of colors to choose ( colour wheel ) Suggestion: - maybe add like annotation / notes would be super helpful and accessible - add like translation options?
Great! Wish I downloaded sooner. You just highlight and right click and you press super simple highlighter with options of red, yellow, green, cyan, purple, grey, redact, bold, strikethrough, magnify and quotation. Make sure you press the puzzle icon, press the "Super Simple Highlighter" Extension and allow it, then reload the website after installing.
Doesnt work at all
Add hotkeys, please!🙏
I like it but needs the ability to also annotate. I find that I highlight things and then forget the signifigance of why I highlighted it or need to notate an additional comment about the highlighted sentence in relation to something else on the page or document. Syncing across devices would also be a plus
Great! There is not another one as great as this one, and there never will be.