Markdown notes that live in your browser bookmarks. Photos, attachments, built-in RAG. Free, private. Syncs via Google/Microsoft.
Users
59
+22 in 30 days
Rating
5.0 / 5
unchanged in 30 days
Ratings
1
0 in 30 days
Store rank
#103K
#86K among extensions
Version
2.3.37
updated 9 Oct 2026
Users
monthly, 4 months
Latest, 18 Oct 2026:59 usersMove the mouse over the chart for any month
Ratings count
monthly, 4 months
Latest, 18 Oct 2026:1 ratingsMove the mouse over the chart for any month
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About OWL-Note
🦉 Markdown notes — synced across your devices
OWL‑Note is a free, local-first Markdown notebook.
Notes automatically sync through your Chrome or Edge account when bookmark sync is enabled.
A notebook, right inside your browser.
**A notebook, right inside your browser extension.**
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✨ Save an entire AI conversation in one click
Right-click the page → Rebuild LLM chat to OWL‑Note
Convert supported ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and similar conversation pages into editable Markdown—not screenshots.
✔ User and assistant messages
✔ Headings, paragraphs, lists, and links
✔ Tables
✔ Fenced code blocks with syntax highlighting
✔ KaTeX math
✔ Supported images as attachments
✔ Original source URL
Conversion happens locally inside the extension. No API key or cloud conversion service is required.
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📸 Capture an entire page as one long image
Right-click → Capture entire page to OWL‑Note
OWL‑Note scrolls and stitches the page, including content below the fold, into one long image.
Useful for:
✔ Long articles
✔ Technical documentation
✔ Assignments and feedback
✔ Receipts and confirmations
✔ Dashboards and reports
✔ Complex page layouts
Capture and image stitching happen locally.
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🎨 Draw and annotate inside your notes
Click Draw to open the built-in sketchpad.
✔ Freehand pen
✔ Highlighter and eraser
✔ Lines and arrows
✔ Rectangles and rounded rectangles
✔ Circles and ellipses
✔ Multiple colors and stroke sizes
✔ Shift constraints for straight lines, squares, and circles
✔ Paste, move, rotate and resize photos
✔ Undo and redo
✔ Save the drawing directly into the note
Drawings are generated locally and inserted as PNG attachments.
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🎙️ Live Transcription save to OWL-Note
Right-click a supported browser tab → Live Transcription save to OWL-Note
Turn speech from a playing browser tab into an editable Markdown note using Chrome's native on-device speech recognition.
✔ Live captions in a draggable overlay
✔ Video continues playing normally
✔ Automatically organized into readable paragraphs
✔ Source URL, date, duration, and periodic timestamps
✔ Save or discard directly from the caption overlay
✔ Saved automatically if the captured tab closes
✔ Transcript opens immediately in OWL-Note
✔ Audio is never uploaded or stored
Chrome 139 or newer and a supported local speech language are required. Chrome may download the selected language resource after confirmation.
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🔗 Share and export individual notes
Open the note’s Share menu to:
✔ Create a PDF locally and share it through the system share menu
✔ Download the PDF when system sharing is unavailable
✔ Export an editable .owl-note package with supported attachments
✔ Optionally create a public, read-only PDF link in your Google Drive
Creating a public Drive link always requires confirmation. The shared PDF remains in your Drive until you revoke access or delete it.
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📝 A complete Markdown notebook
✔ Live Markdown preview and automatic saving
✔ Code syntax highlighting and KaTeX math
✔ Photos, file attachments, and drawings
✔ Mermaid diagrams support in the preview
✔ Zoomable, drag-to-pan image viewer
✔ Phonetic Assistance: IPA for English, hiragana for Japanese kanji, and pinyin for Chinese
✔ Nested notebooks and multi-select organization
✔ Pinning and newest-first sorting
✔ Trash, restore, and permanent deletion
✔ Search notes and find text within the current note
✔ Created and updated timestamps
✔ Import existing notes into OWL-Note from Markdown, ENEX, Json or DOCX documents.
✔ Export: Markdown ZIP, .owl-note package, PDF (via Share), and a Recovery key file
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🦉 Ask Owl — retrieval and on-device AI
Ask natural-language questions about your notes.
Without on-device AI, Ask Owl displays matching excerpts from your notes. When the browser’s on-device LanguageModel API is available, it can generate grounded answers with citations.
✔ Keyword retrieval across your notes
✔ Optional meaning-based semantic search
✔ One-click note summarization
✔ Deterministic Markdown tidying without AI rewriting
✔ On-device AI title suggestions
✔ CJK-aware retrieval for Chinese, Japanese, and Korean text
The optional semantic index requires a one-time model download of approximately 130 MB. Its inference and indexing run locally.
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🔒 Private by design
✔ No separate OWL‑Note account
✔ No subscription
✔ No OWL‑Note backend
✔ No telemetry
✔ No advertising
✔ Notes stored in browser bookmarks when within sync limits
✔ Notes encrypted with AES‑256‑GCM
✔ Capture, drawing, conversion, retrieval, and AI processing run locally
✔ Content is sent to Google Drive only when Drive sync or Drive sharing is explicitly enabled
✔ Manifest V3 extension
✔ Open source under GPL‑3.0-or-later
✔ Optional Google Drive support can sync large notes and attachments. oversized content remains safely stored on the current device.
Works with Chrome, Edge, and other Chromium‑based browsers.