Often while reading a webpage, we may like to note or highlight some of its contents so then when we check back that page again and find the content we are interested in to be highlighted.
Won't it be helpful if there is a basic feature in the browser itself to mark some text of a webpage which is stored as cache on the hard drive of the user. An issue may arise that the webpage gets updated in a couple of days and the text we've marked is now no longer available on the page. In such a case, the browser can alert that a new version of the webpage is available (Just like revisions in wikipedia pages).
What do other users say?
Update:
I mean if there is something important in a website we want to mark, like we bold or highlight some text in a regular word document so that when we revisit that page, maybe a wikipedia page, we are able to locate the content we are interested in.
1/29/09
I think that a highlighter application in google chrome would be great.I love everything google does, chrome in particular. But chrome would be better with a lot of applications for researchers, writers, web programmers and so on. The highlighter app would help me since I am a writer and do a lot of research. it will help me, as many others, tremendously. But Finsternis is on point as well, google notebook is great for taking notes, something that you can add the highlighted notes on the website we use the highlighter on. Since notebook is not a chrome app you can add it to your chrome bookmark tool bar for easy assess. But chrome is great we need a lot of apps.
Google already has such an application, it is called Google Notebook. Notebook as a plug in (for FF and IE, Unfortunably) in which you can select stuff, right click it and then click "note this". The selected stuff (text, pics) will be saved in a online notebook (Google Notebook, duh) along with a link to where you got that (so you can always go back to it). Unfortunably, Google is ending this great app (for some reason) and no one is allow to sign up anymore. But if they decided to put it back, they should make a Chrome version of the plug in.
Btw, google notebook is also great for taking notes (like in class) and other stuff (so it serves more purposes than simply getting info from the Web).
I think that a highlighter application in google chrome would be great.I love everything google does, chrome in particular. But chrome would be better with a lot of applications for researchers, writers, web programmers and so on. The highlighter app would help me since I am a writer and do a lot of research. it will help me, as many others, tremendously. But Finsternis is on point as well, google notebook is great for taking notes, something that you can add the highlighted notes on the website we use the highlighter on. Since notebook is not a chrome app you can add it to your chrome bookmark tool bar for easy assess. But chrome is great we need a lot of apps.
Finsternis, I for got to give you this link (http://googlenotebookblog.blogspot.com/2008/09/theres-been-lot-of-excitement-about.html) that shows you how to add a plug in that allows you to note pictures, clipping and so forth and added straight into you google notebook. And I do not think google will stop notebook because is the most popular feature they have. If they do stop gnotebook I will stop using google.
I just searched for a highlighter in Google for specifically this reason. That's how I found this post! I was looking for a plugin/add on to right-click and highlight. I just assumed someone had made it up already! It's a shame I'm going to have to open Firefox for such purposes... Get at it Google, I like Chrome best!
I concur with the OP and unspoken's first post. This is a feature I'd love to see. I find myself bookmarking a lot of sites because they contain information valuable to my field that I would like to be able to go back and at a glance see what I liked. For example I could mark some some areas as "scientific breakthrough" others "activism tactic" others "answers for real people" etc. I imagine there are apps I can download and install to do this, but I think having this capability already built in would save me a lot of time and hassle from having to research and download apps just to research my field!
I too am surprised that the highlighter isn't availalbe for Google Chrome. Yes, they did away with google notes....but....I would like to suggest Evernote. It's better than google note.
I love wired-marker for Firefox - it is simple, and doesn't require sending links, copying and pasting text or any of that. You right click and highlight - easy for lazy people like me :-) Now, we just need a version for Chrome, and I could stop bouncing back and forth. I think Chrome is sleeker and faster than Firefox, but the trade-off is a lack of the extras (I know that is part of what keeps it fast and sleek, but customization is important)... Wired-marker is great because when I return to a webpage, what I highlighted is instantly visible - which is great for researchers, students, and those of us who return to certain websites over and over...
check out Yawas (Yet Another Web Annotation System), including a video demo http://keeness.net/yawas This firefox extension ties your highlights to your google bookmarks, so you can always find the highlighted pieces later. I'm trying to port it to Google Chrome now.
I noticed a lot of people suggest using websites to do highlighting on the document. As a student, I get a tone of online articles from prof's and it would be awesome to be able to highlight the important ideas quick and easy when reading it, and also retrieve the highlights and notes when in class. Just a thought.
I just had the same idea. I was reading an article about the Oka Crisis and wanted to mark a few sentences. I searched to see if something like that existed and ended up here.
I totally agree.. I love using Chrome, but I miss all the extensions/extras that Firefox is offering.. I also want to see a highlight extra from Chrome, I was googling it and this page came up.. So Google, listen to your users and give us this feature!!
I agree with mostly all of the posts so far, but i wanted to share some insights of why I think Wired Marker compared with Digo would work well with Chrome. I like the new ways that Google search engines can sort information especially for images as i am an artist. I can choose the size im looking for, the color, and the resolution just from Googles search engine options.
Im a visually minded user and i also have a visual processing disorder which means that lots of text in large quantities without some whitespace in between is hard for me to comprehend. Having something like GNotebook, Wired Marker, and Digo are all things that would help us help Google get the content we want and become more context sensitive with information. When you make a mark, as in highlighting information, selecting information, or doing screenshots like i can with SnagIt and then edit those images you have the freedom of showing a sense of context from the way you speak your words. But as we can see Google has shown us that you can search for mostly anything you can conceive.
In the same way, i do a lot of research, and i like going deep into the content, so with my experience using Wired Marker in FF it was nice because the plugin was built into FF and i could highlight, right click and choose any color i desired, make the stroke of the font a certain color, along with the background. I could give it a name i wanted and even make folders for content like i can with Bookmarks in Chrome. I want to be able to customize in detail the information that Google is helping me find, and i need a library that catalogues the citations for each highlighted information. I can store it on my computer so Chrome would be more robust.
It would actually be very cool if we had a Google library of peoples profiles with a list of citations they have to any reference they make. Then other people if they want the details could find the references to find out if someone is speaking truth, or being able to follow the context of someones thought patterns by seeing the paths they have been for a certain topic.
In my understanding i believe we are looking for answers, and information is all around for us to find, and having a way to sort through iconography, writing, technical information, illustrations, flow charts and symbolism that gives meaning to our lives will help Google Chrome stand out from the many others that are out there.
Chrome is fast. I was a FF user but i use Chrome on all my machines both Mac and Windows.
Digo is a good tool if you want to make a quick note with a few colors, but I want to have the option to have unlimited potential to work with then have the ability to find and network with people i want to be around that think in a similar way.
The thing about it is Google Chrome isn't my own personal browser where Google will do anything i want it to to fit my specific needs. We share it and everyone has different strengths and weaknesses which could be harnessed together to find and location the answers we are looking for.
I would hope that something like Wired Marker, Digo, and SnagIt with another library of citations with individualized profiles could both be integrated for both the light or power users or any in between just like Google has done with their image search engine options.
Wired marker is awesome. because not only you may highlight sentences but make annotations. You may save jpegs also. It caches the original. So everything is backed up as well. It offers sort of bookmarking, annotating, higlighiting and saving for later usage. It helps to get your citations easily for a research paper. Along with zotero wired marker is the most useful tool I have ever seen.
Zotero and wired marker binds me to firefox. And I am really interested to find them on chrome.
Some additional features: the great color cuts in the vertical scroll bar already developed for the "Find in page" (Ctrl+F) function, and/or browsing arrows allowing to jump from a result to another.
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