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Highlights and notes

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Select text in the reader to keep it as a highlight. Your highlights and notes are searchable and stay with the article.

Steps​

  1. Open an article in the reader.

  2. Select the words you want to keep with the mouse. A small toolbar appears next to the selection.

    A paragraph selected in the reader, ready to highlight.

  3. Pick a color: Yellow, Blue · reference, Pink · question or Green · to use. The app names them as a hint: blue for reference, pink for a question, green for something to use. Use them as you like.

  4. To attach a thought to the passage, press Note in the same toolbar and type it. The toolbar also has Cite to copy a citation and Copy to copy the text.

  5. To see all highlights of the article, open the side panel and choose Highlights. Each one shows its paragraph number.

  6. To write about the whole article, open the Notes tab and type in the field. It saves as you type, and search uses these notes to find the article later.

  7. To remove a highlight, press Remove on it in the panel.

Share a highlight​

In the panel, use Share publicly (link copied) on a highlight. Readsira makes a public link and copies it. Unshare (revokes public link) turns the link off again. Only highlights you share this way are public.

An address of the form /highlight/<id> takes you straight to the article the highlight belongs to. This is the link that Readwise shows next to a highlight that Readsira synced. It works only for the account that owns the highlight; for anyone else the page says it was not found.

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