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Logseq Copilot

Highlight Comments

When you clip a selection, Logseq Copilot also keeps it as a highlight: the text stays marked in teal on the page, and you can click it to write a comment.

How to Use

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Creating Highlights

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  1. Select text on a web page.
  2. Clip it: press the clip shortcut (Ctrl+Shift+U by default), right-click and choose Clip “…”, or use the floating button if you turned it on. See Clipping & Templates for all the ways.
  3. The selection is clipped into Logseq, marked on the page right away, and saved as a highlight.

Clipping the link of a page, with nothing selected, does not make a highlight.

Highlights belong to a web address. They show again when you open exactly the same address, and the address has to be identical: a different query or hash is another page. Highlights work on web pages only (http:// and https://).

Adding a Comment

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  1. Click a highlight on the page. A comment popup opens next to the click.
  2. The popup shows the highlighted text (shortened when it is long), the date you created it, and your comment if you wrote one.
  3. Click Edit, type your comment in the box, and click Save. Click Cancel to drop your changes.

You can also edit the comment of a highlight in the Sidebar. If the comment popup of that highlight is open on the page, it shows the new comment.

Managing Comments

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  • Save: click Save, or click anywhere outside the popup while you are editing. Clicking outside saves, it does not discard.
  • Delete: click Delete in the popup. The browser asks you to confirm, and then the highlight and its comment are removed from the browser and from the page.
  • Comments are plain text. The popup shows them exactly as you typed them, with line breaks. Markdown is not rendered.

Keyboard Shortcuts

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  • Escape: while you are editing, drop your changes. Otherwise close the popup.
  • Click outside: close the popup, or save your comment if you are editing.

Features

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Smart Positioning

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The comment popup stays inside the window, wherever on the page you click.

Theme Support

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The popup follows the theme of the page, light or dark. The teal tint of the highlight does too: it is a little softer on dark pages.

Manage All Highlights

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Open the extension options and choose Highlights to see every highlight you saved, on all websites. There you can:

  • Search the text, title, website and comments of your highlights.
  • Filter by website, and click Apply Filters.
  • Open the page of a highlight by clicking its title.
  • Delete a single highlight, or Clear All of them (after a confirmation).
  • Export All to a JSON file, with the text, comment, address, title and dates of each highlight, to keep a copy or to use them elsewhere.

The page also shows how many highlights you have, on how many websites, and how many you made this week.

Troubleshooting

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The highlight does not show on the page:

  • Check that the address is the same as when you made it. A different query or hash is a different page.
  • The text of the page may have changed since you saved the highlight. The highlight is still in the list of the sidebar and in the options, and you can edit or delete it there.
  • On Firefox before version 140 the extension does not paint highlights. See Installation.
  • Reload the page if it was already open when you installed or updated the extension.

Clicking a highlight opens nothing:

  • Click on the highlighted text itself.
  • Reload the page if it was already open when you installed or updated the extension.

The comment does not save:

  • Click Save and wait for the button to finish. Comments are saved in the browser, so Logseq does not need to be running for this.

What’s Next?

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