PixelPal - Pixel Companion: Bookmarks, Scraps, Snippets, Screenshots

PixelPal is a browser extension that helps you read the web, save what matters, and reuse it instantly. Stop losing time hunting for “that sentence from earlier,” “the reply I always send,” or “yesterday’s screenshot” across endless tabs. PixelPal brings bookmarks, scraps (highlights), snippets, and screenshots together in one side panel—ready when you need them. A mint-colored pixel octopus companion lives on the page and makes every save a little more delightful. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Why install PixelPal? ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ • One hub instead of many extensions You don’t need separate tools for capture, highlighting, text expansion, and bookmark organization. Four core workflows live in a single side panel. • Save in the moment you read Select text and a nearby toolbar offers scrap, bookmark, snippet, screenshot, and copy—no hunting through menus or switching tabs. • Reuse in the moment you type Save greetings, support replies, code fragments, and checklists as snippets. Type a short trigger and the full text expands where you need it. • Capture the scene, not just the link Capture the visible area, a selection, or a full page. Edit in the built-in editor, then share as PNG, PDF, or a clipboard image. Pull text from images with local OCR and copy—or listen with text-to-speech. • Start without signing in Core features work without Google sign-in. Sign in only when you want sync across devices. • Stay productive—and a little happier The pixel octopus walks, jumps, drowses, and reacts when you save. Feed it items if you like. Hide it per site whenever you need focus. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Key features ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 【Side panel — four tools in one place】 Manage bookmarks, scraps, snippets, and screenshots from a single side panel. • Fast search across your library • Emoji folders and tags for organization • Favorites and drag-and-drop ordering • Show/hide menus and reorder them • Open instantly with a shortcut (Windows/Linux: Alt+Shift+P, Mac: Command+Shift+L) Keep your collected knowledge beside every page instead of buried in other tabs. 【Bookmarks — pages you’ll return to, properly organized】 Save important pages with title, URL, folders, tags, and notes. • Bookmark the current page from the popup or selection toolbar • See when a page is already saved to reduce duplicates • Spot items quickly with favicons in your list Go beyond the browser’s basic bookmarks with notes and structure in one place. 【Scraps — highlights and notes that stay with the page】 Highlight key sentences in five colors (yellow, green, blue, pink, purple) and attach notes. • Scrap selected text or create note-style scraps • Highlights remain on the page so context stays intact • Organize research with folders and tags • Change color or delete from the highlight toolbar Revisit what mattered without rereading the entire article. 【Snippets — text that expands as you type】 Save frequent writing with a trigger. When the trigger appears while typing, the body expands automatically. • Global snippets or domain-specific snippets • Rich-text editing for formatted replies • Optional visual and sound feedback on expand If you repeat customer answers, sales emails, issue templates, bios, or code fragments, PixelPal pays for itself in time saved. 【Screenshots — from capture to edit to share】 • Capture the visible area • Drag to capture a region • Capture long pages with full-page stitching • Built-in editor: crop, rotate, draw, shapes, icons, text, mask, filters • Download PNG, save PDF, or copy an image to the clipboard • Re-open to re-edit; search and batch-manage your library • Start from the context menu, popup, or shortcut (visible area: Alt+Shift+S / Mac Command+Shift+S) Bug reports, meeting follow-ups, design feedback, receipts—explain less with words and leave the scene. 【OCR — text from images, locally】 Select a region on a screenshot to extract text. • Local on-device processing with Tesseract (no per-use OCR fee) • English and Korean language packs • Edit results, copy, or hear them read aloud • Reselect and extract again Use the words in a captured scene without needing to upload the image for OCR. 【Selection toolbar — actions appear when you highlight】 Select text on the web and PixelPal offers: • Scrap • Bookmark • Copy • Save as snippet • Screenshot • Open side panel Turn it off globally, require a modifier while dragging, use double-click selection, disable per site, or hide until the next visit. Stay out of the way when you don’t need it. 【Pixel companion — an octopus in your browser】 PixelPal’s mint pixel octopus lives on the page. • Walk, jump, drowse, sleep, startle, and more • Eye tracking toward the cursor and blinking • Reactions and speech bubbles when you save • Toss hearts, stars, apples, cookies, emoji, or a tab favicon • Adjust speed, size, color themes, and custom colors • Summon the character or turn it off per site A productivity suite with a companion that makes everyday browsing feel warmer. 【Popup, right-click, and shortcuts】 • Popup: quick capture (visible / region / full page), OCR, bookmark this page, open side panel • Right-click PixelPal menu: save selection as a snippet, capture options, open side panel, summon character • Optional capture delay countdown so menus can close before the shot Start where your hands already are; organize everything in the side panel. 【Settings, theme, and site exceptions】 • Light/dark theme and language (Korean & English) • Fine controls for character, toolbar, snippets, and menus • Per-site exceptions when you need a quieter page Quiet when you focus. Rich when you browse. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Who it’s for ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ • Researchers, students, and planners collecting quotes and sources from the web • Support, sales, and community folks who send similar answers every day • Anyone who files bug reports, design feedback, or docs with screenshots • People who need more than bookmarks—sentences, notes, and…