Highlights in the browser sidebar

Oct 23, 2026 · Last update Oct 22, 2026

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Logseq Copilot 2.0 keeps the highlights of the page you are reading in your browser’s own sidebar. In Chrome and Edge that is the side panel (the extension uses the sidePanel API). In Firefox it is the sidebar (sidebar_action). Browsers without a sidebar of their own, and Arc, get the same sidebar drawn on the page instead. This post follows a highlight from creation to deletion. The reference version is on the Sidebar page.

Create a highlight

A highlight is created when you clip a text selection.

1. Select text on a web page.

2. Clip it in one of three ways:

   • Right-click the selection and choose Clip “…”.
   • Press the clip shortcut. The default is Ctrl+Shift+U, and you can change it in your browser’s shortcut settings.
   • Click the floating clip button that appears next to the selection. It is off by default. Turn on Floating Button under Clip Note in the extension’s Settings.

3. The text is marked on the page. Reload the page later and the saved highlights are marked again. Click a highlight on the page to open a small comment popup.

A clip with a selection does two separate things. The selected text is converted to Markdown and written to Logseq with your default template. And a highlight, with its position on the page, is saved in your browser.

Note

Clipping without a selection, the sidebar’s Clip page button and the Clip page link menu item save a link to the page. They do not create a highlight.

Open the sidebar

There are three entry points.

1. Click the toolbar icon. In Firefox, click it again to close the sidebar.
2. Right-click the page or a selection and choose Open sidebar.
3. Use the Open sidebar command. It has no default key, so you bind your own.

To bind the command:

1. Open the shortcut settings. In Chrome that is chrome://extensions/shortcuts. In Edge it is edge://extensions/shortcuts. In Firefox, open about:addons, click the gear icon and choose Manage Extension Shortcuts.

2. Find Logseq Copilot and set a key for Open sidebar.

Note

Browsers only open a sidebar in response to a user action: a click, a menu item or a shortcut. That is why the extension cannot open it on its own when a page loads. Close it with the button the browser puts on the panel. The sidebar drawn on the page has its own × button.

The sidebar follows your tab

The sidebar is tied to the browser window and shows the highlights of that window’s active tab. Switch tabs, or navigate to another page, and the list updates. The sidebar stays open. In Edge the browser reloads the side panel on every tab switch, so the extension rebuilds the list from the active tab and from storage.

The header shows the name of your graph, a search box and the Clip page and Clip selection buttons. The list is newest first. Each entry shows the highlighted text (shortened to 120 characters), the note (shortened to 80), when you made it, and up to three tags.

Highlights belong to an exact URL. https://example.com/post, https://example.com/post?ref=feed and https://example.com/post#intro each have their own list.

Jump, edit, delete

• Jump to it. Click an entry and the page scrolls to the highlight.
• Edit the note. Hover over an entry, or tab to it, and click the pencil. Save with the button or Ctrl+Enter (Cmd+Enter on macOS). Escape drops your changes. If the comment popup for that highlight is open on the page, it shows the new note.
• Delete it. Click the trash button. The highlight disappears from the list and the page. There is no confirmation and no undo.

Two notices can appear when you click an entry. “Couldn’t find this highlight on the page” means the text is no longer there, usually because the page changed. The entry stays in the list. “Reload the page to jump to highlights” means the tab has no content script, typically because it was already open when you installed or updated the extension. Reload the tab and click again.

Pages that do not have highlights

Only http and https pages can have highlights. On the new tab page, on browser pages such as chrome://extensions or about:addons, on local files and on other extensions’ pages, the sidebar says “Not available on this page”. Open a web page and the list appears.

Where the data is stored

Highlights stay in the browser

Highlights and their notes are stored in the browser’s local extension storage. They are not sent to Logseq. The extension does not sync them between browsers or devices.

The clipped text becomes a block in Logseq, but a note you add to a highlight stays in the browser. Uninstalling the extension deletes the stored highlights.

To see everything in one place, open the extension options and go to Highlights. That page lists the highlights from all sites, can export them as a JSON file with Export All, and can remove them all with Clear All. Export before you uninstall if you want to keep them.

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