SourceTrail

## Name SourceTrail — Research Evidence Collector ## Short description Capture web evidence with sources, screenshots, and notes. Build traceable research projects and export cited reports. ## Detailed description SourceTrail is a research evidence collector for market research, competitor analysis, product discovery, due diligence, content creation, and fact-checking. When you find an important statement, user comment, price, product claim, or data point on the web, save it as evidence instead of losing its context in a bookmark or note. SourceTrail captures the selected text together with its source information, so your findings remain traceable and ready to reference. Turn scattered web research into a clear evidence trail. ### Key features - **Capture selected text as evidence** — Save important passages directly from a web page. - **Preserve the original source** — Each evidence card records the page title, URL, domain, and capture time. - **Save a visible-page screenshot** — Keep visual context for pages such as pricing, product details, public statements, and user feedback. - **Organize research into projects** — Create separate workspaces for a competitor study, market landscape, product opportunity, article, or investigation. - **Add tags, notes, and source types** — Classify evidence as official, documentation, news, blog, community, review, marketplace, or other sources. - **Search and filter quickly** — Find evidence by keyword, tag, domain, or source type. - **Connect conclusions to supporting evidence** — Build research conclusions and link the evidence cards that support them. - **Return to evidence on the original page** — Locate saved text on the current page when the page content remains available. - **Export research reports** — Export selected conclusions and evidence as Markdown, HTML, or a Word-compatible document, with source links, metadata, notes, and images. ### Built for research that needs sources SourceTrail is useful when you need more than a browser bookmark: - Market and industry research - Competitor features, pricing, and customer-feedback analysis - Product discovery and user-pain-point collection - Investment research and public-information due diligence - Writing, reporting, and fact-checking - Saving public web pages that may change over time ### Privacy and permissions SourceTrail is local-first. Projects, evidence cards, screenshots, tags, notes, and conclusions are stored in the extension's local IndexedDB storage on your device by default. The extension does not actively upload your research data to a server. SourceTrail requests only the permissions needed to provide its features: - **Active tab access** to capture selected text and a screenshot from the page you are currently using. - **Storage** to save your projects and research data locally. - **Side panel** to provide a convenient research workspace in Chrome. Page access is used only by the declared content script to capture selections and restore saved evidence highlights. Keep the evidence behind every conclusion — with SourceTrail.