Need Highlighter+Save highlighted function in a browser...

Is there any plugin/add-on or inbuilt function in Opera browser that would let me highlight text in a web page and then save it with the highlights intact. I desperately need this function, please recommend any other browser or any method/trick that would let me do this. Thanks.

 

I sincerely doubt you can do it directly in the browser or with any plugins, but if you just save the page, and then edit the HTML to have the highlights you want, you'll get the effect you're looking for.

 

Thanks for the advice. But it's just the huge number of pages that I have to go through and I can't edit each of them. I need something of an instant highlighter using which I can highlight as I read and then save the page. Any other suggestions?

 

I used to have an app that did this very thing. It was back in Win98 or Win2000 days. It was a browser add on. It did not save the page. It saved a list of pages you had added highlights to and then kept a list of where on the page you added the highlight. If you browsed back to one of those pages and the add-in was active it would put your highlights back onto the page. Of course if the page content changed the highlights would be in the wrong spot. It had two or three different highlighters and if I remember correctly sticky pad notes and text bubbles like in a comic book. I REALLY miss it. It also allowed you to send link to another person and they could see you highlights. It did this by caching the highlight info and URL onto their own web site and then creating a new URL that you emailed to someone. They didn't need to have the tool in place. The URL they received would display the page and add the highlights.

DAMN! I REALLY miss that app. I had totally forgotten about it. When the folks who developed this went "belly up" the URL sharing thing went away. But the highlighting on your OWN machine feature still worked. I used that part myself for a long time.

I hope someone else remembers this and maybe knows of some web 2.0 solution. If not maybe there is a business model here... add some text bubbles with Google ad links and make a few bucks on it. Hmmmmmm.... any one have a number for the folks on Sand Hill road? I think I just wrote an elevator pitch.

Gary

 

Huh. Maybe they do exist.

 

That add-on doesn't seem to be the right thing. It's kind of an online tool, an account needs to be made on their site, it's more for sharing the highlights rather than saving them.

I found a program called Browser Buddy that has the perfect highlighting ability but it doesn't save the highlights.

Still looking...

 

How do you want to save the highlights? I am not sure I understand what real difference there would be in sharing versus saving the highlights like the first add on did.

Gary

 

I want to be able to highlight text in a web page when I am online, and then I will save the page onto my harddisk. Then, I would access that page offline from the hard disk and I want the highlights to be there. It's a simple function but i am kind of surprised there is nothing out there that lets me do that.

Now I could use an html editor to 'highlight and save' the offline page, but I have to deal with quite a large number of pages in a small time, so I don't have time for that.

 

I see, the offline part is the key here. Now it makes sense as to why the first method was not going to work. Two thoughts. Would "screen grabs" suffice? The other is (and you may have already tried this) what happens if you use Browser Buddy to highlight and then use the browser to save the page. Oh I forgot you are using Opera, does it support saving an entire page as a single file like Windows Explorer does? I sort of doubt if this idea would work, but...

How are you saving the pages for offline use now? For this scenario, any highlighter is going to have to add the highlights directly to the in memory image of whatever you are using to save the pages offline. Any highlighter that layers the highlights OVER the in memory image is not going to work for you.

Gary

 

Screen grabs would be too clumsy, I need to try to keep the stuff in text form from where it can be copied etc.

Browserbuddy highlights well but it works only with IE and when I save the page, the highlights are no longer there. Even if I do this on an already saved page. Opera does support saving web page in a single file (mht).

Currently, I use opera OR IE to save the page using the Complete type (a separate folder is created with the html that contains the images etc.).

I think I should be looking at Browsers rather than add-ons.

 

http://www.internetresearchtool.com/
http://www.diigo.com/tools
http://www.highermath.com/webmarcation.htm

Give those a try.

 

I had checked out the last 2 earlier also.
The first one looks good.
It has its own browser and I might just use it. Thanks a lot.

 

That third one says it saves pages to a local cache. Doesn't that resolve your "offline issue"???

Gary