Every reading, lecture, and source — findable at essay time

The essay is due Friday. You read the perfect source two weeks ago — you remember it argued something about labor markets after automation — but it’s gone. It’s not in your browser history, it’s not in the doc where you pasted “links to use,” and the seventeen tabs you kept open as a filing system got closed by a restart. Students don’t have a saving problem; browsers save things fine. They have a finding problem, and it gets worse every semester.

Marqly is an AI bookmark manager built around that finding problem. You save readings and lecture videos with one click, AI tags and summarizes them automatically, and when the deadline arrives you search by describing what you remember — not by guessing what a title was.

Highlight readings the way you’d mark up a textbook

Assigned readings live on the open web: journal pages, news analysis, course blogs, long PDFs of policy reports. Marqly’s highlighter lets you select text on any website and mark it in one of six colors, with notes attached. Use a color system — yellow for definitions, green for evidence, red for claims you want to argue against — and add a note like “counterexample for thesis, para 3” while the thought is fresh.

Two things make this more than a browser trick. First, highlights persist: reopen the reading before the seminar and your markings are still on the page. Second, every highlight syncs to your Marqly library, so at essay time you’re not rereading whole articles — you’re scanning the exact passages you flagged, with your own notes beside them.

Save lecture videos with the transcript attached

A huge share of studying now happens on YouTube: recorded lectures, exam-prep channels, that one 40-minute video that finally made eigenvectors click. Marqly puts an AI card on every YouTube watch page. The Summary tab streams a TL;DR with key sections (and lists books mentioned in the video — useful when a lecturer name-drops further reading). The Transcript tab is synced to playback, so you can jump to the exact minute a concept is explained, and copy the whole transcript in one click for your notes.

The part that pays off later: the bookmark button Marqly adds to YouTube’s action row saves the video with its transcript attached. That means the content of the lecture becomes searchable, not just its title. If you’re revising and only remember “the video where he compared entropy to shuffling cards,” that’s enough. There’s a full walkthrough in how to summarize YouTube videos with AI.

On Pro, a Chat tab answers questions from the video’s transcript — handy for “did she cover the 1929 comparison in this lecture or the last one?” without scrubbing through an hour of footage.

Find every source when the deadline hits

This is where the two weeks of saving turn into a bibliography. Marqly’s semantic search finds saves by meaning, not keywords — it searches across titles, page content, your highlights, and video transcripts. Type “study about sleep and memory consolidation in undergrads” and the article surfaces even if its actual title was something unhelpful like “New findings challenge assumptions.” If you’ve never used search that works this way, what is semantic search explains it in two minutes.

AI summaries help at the other end of the process too: before an essay, skim the summaries of everything you saved for the unit and shortlist the five sources actually worth citing, instead of reopening twenty tabs.

One board per course

Boards let you group links and highlights, so “ECON 201,” “Dissertation,” and “Internship applications” stay separate instead of blending into one pile. A board can also be shared as a public page that anyone can view without signing up — one link sends your whole revision reading list to a study group, and they don’t need accounts to use it.

Getting started

1. Install the extension. Marqly runs in Chrome, Edge, Firefox, and Safari, and the Chrome extension is rated 4.8 on the Web Store. There’s also an iOS app for saving from your phone.
2. Import what you already have. Every browser exports bookmarks as an HTML file, and Marqly imports that format directly — along with Pocket exports and Raindrop.io collections if you used those.
3. Let AI tag the backlog. Every import and every new save gets tagged automatically. The pile of bookmarks from three semesters becomes an organized, searchable library without an afternoon of manual filing.

You can do all of this on the free tier — is Marqly free? covers exactly what’s included — and try Pro free for 7 days at app.marqly.com.

One honest caveat before you commit: Marqly has no offline mode, so it won’t replace a read-it-later app for studying on a flight or an underground commute with no signal. There’s also no Android app — the web app works in Android browsers, but saving from an Android phone is clunkier than the one-tap experience iOS users get. If your studying is mostly offline or Android-first, Marqly is a weaker fit; for everyone working in a desktop browser, it’s built for exactly the semester you’re having.