How to highlight and annotate web pages?

[SidMan]

What I’m trying to do

I am trying to highlight and annotate web pages. Then sync these highlights to obsidian for further organization.

What extension/plugin should I use for it ? I am looking for something that works on both android and

Things I have tried

• Omnivore : Article must be first imported, cannot highlight directly on the page
• Hypothesis : Works well but extension does not work properly on android.
• Raindrop.io : Article needs to be imported on android ?

I am using kiwi browser on android so I can install extensions.

[ichmoimeyo]

Glasp

Chrome extension: Glasp Web Highlighter - PDF & Web Highlights

Tutorial: How to Export Highlights and Notes into Obsidian

Videos:

Highlight Web Pages with Glasp | Social Web Highlighter

YouTube Summary - AI_Follow-up Prompts - PDF Summary

[playlist]

[SidMan]

How to use it on android ?

[ichmoimeyo]

I mainly use Glasp on my Chromebook these days, however …

I have the Glasp Android app installed on my Android phone but currently it only allows me to view my past highlights and annotations … not to make new ones.

I have the Glasp Web Highlighter - PDF & Web Highlights chrome extension installed on my Kiwi browser.
I just wanted to double-check its functioning but when logging in with “Continue with Google” it is giving me …
“Something went wrong. Please try again”

Not sure what the issue is … I’ll keep trying and let you know if I manage to log on.

[ichmoimeyo]

UPDATE: I managed to login with “continue with google” by both disabling Kiwi’s “block ads” as well as ublock for that login page(… I think it was Kiwi’s block ads that prevented it)

I am now seeing e.g.

… a page that I had previously highlighted & annotated on my chromebook.

Trying to highlight & annotate a new page in Kiwi so far isn’t working unfortunately.

[SidMan]

Thank you for very much looking into this.

I got the hypothesis extension to work with kiwi browser. The highlights and sync work well. I plan to keep using that.

[ichmoimeyo]

Good to know, thanks. I have Hypothesis on my Chromebook and at one stage had their Obsidian Plugin(broken?) for it.

I’ll also install it on Kiwi on my Android phone then; also Glasp can import from Hypothesis in case I need it.

PS: I quite frequently use the Hypothesis related docdrop(especially the bookmarklet) for youtube transcripts, annotations & highlights.

[SidMan]

Docdrop works with youtube ? Thats great ! I have started using reclipped but might switch to docdrop.

I would suggest turning on “Plugins on top” in accessibility to easily turn on hypothesis. If you highlight a lot, it might be better to use this bookmarklet script instead of plugin. It autoloads hypothesis for every page.

[ichmoimeyo]

Yes, having the plugins on top makes accessing them so much easier.
Thanks for pointing out the Tapermonkey script.

[SidMan]

I discovered that you have to log in your hypothesis account on every new tab when using TamperMonkey script.