How do I add notes to highlights?

Highlight text on any website with Marqly, then add a note to the highlight — a line about why it matters, a counterargument, a reminder to act on it. The note attaches directly to the highlighted passage, so your thinking stays anchored to the exact text that prompted it, both on the original page and in your Marqly library.

Why note at the moment of capture

A highlight records what mattered; a note records why. Six months later, the “what” is easy to reconstruct — the passage is right there — but the “why” is gone unless you wrote it down when it was fresh. A one-sentence note (“contradicts the retention study,” “use this framing in the pitch”) is the difference between a highlight you can act on and one you stare at blankly.

What it costs

Highlighting itself is free on every plan: six colors, any page, no subscription required. Notes are where the plans draw the line — the free plan is capped at 10 highlight notes, and Marqly Pro makes them unlimited. That cap is actually a useful test: ten deliberate notes will tell you whether annotating is your habit or just a phase. The full split is in free vs Pro, and pricing has the numbers.

Where notes live

Notes travel with their highlights. Revisit the page and the highlight is still there with your note attached — markup in context, like marginalia in a book you own. And since highlights sync to your Marqly library, the passage you marked is also available away from the page: semantic search (Pro) runs across your highlights along with titles, page content, and transcripts, so a marked passage can be found by what it’s about, not only by what it says.

From scattered notes to organized research

Notes shine when a project accumulates material. As highlights build up across many pages, pull the related ones together with links into a board — one place holding the sources, the exact passages that matter, and your running commentary on them.

Who this isn’t for

If you annotate hundreds of passages a week inside a dedicated reading app, a browser-anchored workflow may feel like a downgrade — Marqly’s highlighting lives on the pages you’re already visiting, not in a separate reading environment. Try the workflow before committing: the web highlighter page shows the full picture, and if you haven’t set up highlighting yet, start with how to highlight text on a website or the longer guide, how to highlight text on any website.