Highlight any website or PDF, add notes, and find them again later. Nothing leaves your computer. No sign-up.
Users
4
−1 in 30 days
Rating
5.0 / 5
+5.00 in 30 days
Ratings
1
+1 in 30 days
Store rank
#264K
#220K among extensions
Version
1.1.0
updated 10 Aug 2026
Users
monthly, 2 months
Latest, 16 Oct 2026:4 usersMove the mouse over the chart for any month
Ratings count
monthly, 2 months
Latest, 16 Oct 2026:1 ratingsMove the mouse over the chart for any month
The Chrome Web Store rounds user counts down to the leading digit, so the user line moves in steps. The ratings count is exact and is the better signal of real adoption.
About Notebook Highlighter
Highlight anything you read. Keep it forever. No account required.
Notebook Highlighter lets you mark up the web the way you would mark up a
book, and keeps everything you save on your own computer.
HIGHLIGHTING
Select text on any page, pick a colour, and it is saved. When you come back
to that page — tomorrow, or next year — your highlights are already there,
exactly where you left them.
It works the same way inside PDFs, including files stored on your own hard
drive, using the viewer built into the extension.
Add a note to any highlight, tag it, and search across everything you have
ever marked from a single box.
READING AND SAVING
Reader mode strips the ads and clutter out of an article and saves a clean
copy you can read again offline. You can bookmark pages, bring in the
bookmarks you already keep in your browser, and set a reminder to come back
to something later.
Keyboard shortcuts: Alt+H highlights the selection, Alt+S opens the
sidebar, Alt+B saves a bookmark.
GETTING YOUR NOTES BACK OUT
Export your highlights as a Markdown or PDF file, or send them straight to
the notes app you already use.
The PDF export embeds the fonts needed for non-Latin writing systems, so
highlights in languages other than English come out as readable, selectable
text rather than empty boxes — and in the right character order, so the
text can still be copied and searched.
YOUR READING STAYS YOURS
There is no sign-up, no account, and no server of ours that ever sees what
you read. Everything is stored locally in your browser. We run no analytics
and no tracking code.
The AI summary and chat features are optional and use your own API key. Add
a key and the extension talks directly to the provider you chose. Add
nothing, and no AI request is ever made.
To move highlights between machines, point the extension at a sync endpoint
you control, or export a backup file and carry it across yourself.
WHY IT ASKS FOR ACCESS TO ALL SITES
A highlighter cannot know in advance which page you will want to highlight,
and highlights you saved earlier need to reappear on their own when you
return to a page. The extension reads page content only to capture what you
selected and to restore what you marked before. Full details in the privacy
policy.
Growth
Window
Users
Change
Ratings
Rating
7 days
−3
−42.9%
0
0.00
30 days
−1
−20.0%
+1
+5.00
Chrome Web Store search rankings
Where Notebook Highlighter appears when people search the store, with the 30 day change