A simple Firefox extension to make ephemeral text highlights and copy them to the clipboard.
When I'm reading technical books on paper, I sometimes highlight key takeaways as I go, and then come back to write notes summarising the highlighted parts. I want to be able to do this for long web pages.
There are some existing extensions for Firefox (eg. Textmarker), but they tend to either:
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have a lot of features that I don't want to manage,
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not have keyboard shortcuts, or
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have very few users, in which case I prefer not to provide the wide permissions that these features require.
- Copy the selected text:
Ctrl + Shift + L, or right click > "highlight selection" - Copy all highlights to the clipboard:
Ctrl + Shift + ;, or right click > "copy all selections"
Use make to package up the zip file. This can be installed from file on
Firefox Developer Edition.
As of [2020-06-27] I'm using this myself, but am holding off on listing it on https://addons.mozilla.org/ until I've fixed a couple of issues.