Highlights 0.9.7.2 (with annotation capability)
Highlights 0.9.7.2, is an ultra-light-weight (18 KB) multi-color highlighting tool that helps users highlight selected text on web pages with a right-click. Highlights are saved in a user-defined folder and saved highlights are automatically loaded when page is revisited. This version contains a major fix for erratic 'Shift' key behavior.
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What's New in Highlights 0.9.7.2?
The current version fixes a major bug that causes erratic behavior around 'Shift' key presses and display of 'Highlight & Annotate' and 'Highlight With Color' menu.
Add the power of annotations to your highlights. Highlights now comes with the ability to add personal notes to your selections.
Adding notes (annotations) is easy. To enable/disable annotations check/uncheck 'Enable highlight annotation' checkbox in 'Highlights Preferences'.
To add annotations to your highlights -
1. Select text,
2. right-click with 'Shift' key pressed (on Mac OSX, 'Ctrl + Shift + click'),
3. choose 'Highlight & Annotate' menu item,
4. write note in 'Annotate' dialog,
5. press 'Add Note' button.
Annotations appear as red sequential numbers at the top of the paragraph/section. To view a note, move mouse over the respective number.
Highlight 'color picker' can now be accessed either from the browser status bar or the context menu. You can set your preference through 'Highlights Preferences'. By default, the color picker is accessible from the browser statusbar. To enable changing highlight color through context menu, check "Enable 'Highlight With Color' context menu" check box in the preferences.
To change highlight color via context menu ('Highlight With Color' menu item)
1. Select text,
2. right-click with 'Shift' key pressed (on Mac OSX, 'Ctrl + Shift + click'),
3. choose 'Highlight With Color' menu item,
4. choose a new color with a double click action.
Highlighting is easy
1. Select text.
2. Right click to display popup menu. (On Mac OS X, 'Ctrl+Click')
3. Select 'Highlight' menu item.
Saved highlights are loaded by default when revisiting the page(s).
Note: The default action can be changed in Highlights Preferences (menu bar 'Tools > Highlights Preferences') by unchecking the 'Show highlights on page (re)load' check box.
Multi-colored highlights
The default highlight color (yellow) can be changed to display multi-colored highlights on a page.
To highlight with a new color
The default highlight color (yellow) can be changed. To highlight using another color.
Status bar color picker
1. Click Highlights icon on status bar (lower right hand corner)
2. select highlight color, from the color-picker, with a double-click.
3. select text,
4. right-click (Mac OS X, 'Ctrl + click'),
5. select 'Highlight' menu item.
'Highlight With Color' menu item
1. Select text,
2. right-click with 'Shift' key pressed *.
* On Mac OS X, 'Ctrl + Shift + click' (Note: key press order matters; 'Shift + Ctrl + click' will not work),
3. with 'Shift' key pressed, select 'Highlight With Color' menu item,
4. select highlight color, from the color-picker, with a double click.
Share highlights
Highlight files are saved in users' home directory under a folder named 'highlights'.
1. Browse to the 'highlights' folder in the home directory.
2. Select the respective highlights (.hld) file.
'Highlights' file have the same name as the webpage except that all '/'s are replaced with hyphens '-'.
3. Share with other users. (as email attachments, through shared folders etc.)
4. Receiving user must drop this file in their 'highlights' folder before loading its highlights using 'Show Highlights' menu item.
Remove highlights
If the default action of 'Highlights' is modified to not load highlights on page (re)loads, highlights can be removed temporarily by refreshing the web page using 'F5' key or 'Ctrl+R' ('Cmd+R', on Mac OS X).
To remove highlights permanently, delete the respective .hld file from 'highlights' folder.
Highlights preferences
Some behavior of Highlights is available for customization through preferences setting.
To access preferences, select 'Highlights Preferences' under 'Tools' menu.
('Tools' > 'Highlights Preference')
Shortcut key: 'Ctrl + Shift + P'
Show highlights on page (re)load
By default, saved highlights are reloaded every time a page is revisited.
To change this behavior, check/un-check this checkbox.
Default: Enabled
Save highlighted text to highlights file
To save highlighted text to highlights '.hld' file check/un-check this preference.
Default: Disabled
Enable highlight annotation
To enable/disable annotations, check/un-check this preference.
When enabled this feature can be accessed from the context menu with a 'Shift + right-click'
(On Mac OSX 'Ctrl + Shift + click).
Default: Enabled
Enable 'Highlight With Color' context menu
The location of highlight color picker can be set in the 'Highlights Preferences' dialog.
By default, the color picker is accessible from the browser statusbar. To move the color picker
to the context menu, check this check box.
Default: Disabled
Highlights home
The default Highlights home is a folder named 'highlights' in your home directory.
To select a new home folder use the 'Browse' button and set 'Highlights home' preference.
Highlights help
To display help, select 'Highlights Help' under 'Help' menu.
('Help' > 'Highlights Help')
Shortcut key: 'Ctrl + Shift + L'
Known issues:
1. Simultaneous highlighting of text containing header tags (h1, h2 etc.), list tags (ul, li etc.) with a paragraph fails in the current version.
This limitation can be bypassed by highlighting such sections separately.
2. Highlights to search (engine) result pages do not work.
3. When switching color picker location from context menu to status bar, color changing may fail.
This can be fixed by restarting the browser.
Contact us
Please direct all comments and bug reports at the following address.
When submitting bug report please attach the 'error.log' file found in the 'highlights' folder.
highlights.support@googlemail.com