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Highlight and take notes on any web page, kept locally
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PH · launched Nov 8, 2026 · 2 upvotes (top 19%) · 0 views
Niche: browser productivity extensions · 205 launches, 19 in the last 7 days ▲ +46% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Horizontal
- Workflow automation
- Prosumer
- Not AI
- Chrome Extensions
- Productivity
- Open Source
- GitHub
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More like this: all 205 launches in browser productivity extensions →
Could you build this?
Yes A browser extension that highlights text and saves notes locally with Markdown export is a small, self-contained project. It uses standard extension APIs and local storage.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 754 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #93 of 755 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 341 days after the earliest competitor.
- Highlight to Action · ph · 2026-10-04 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.64
- Highlight My Website · ph · 2026-09-17 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.63
- Web Memo · ph · 2026-11-07 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.60
- ScrollTag · ph · 2026-10-13 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.57
- Open Draw · ph · 2026-10-15 · 3 upvotes · similarity 0.57
- WebPad Studio · ph · 2026-11-06 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.57
- Sitenote · ph · 2026-10-23 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.56
- re:note · ph · 2026-09-24 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.56
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