Collect sources anywhere. Find them by what you remember.

Research has two failure modes. Either you save everything and can’t find any of it later, or you burn your reading time maintaining a filing system instead of actually thinking. Every folder taxonomy you’ve built has died one of those two deaths.

Marqly is a research organizer built around a different bet: collection should take one click, organization should happen automatically, and retrieval should work from whatever fragment you remember. You do the reading and the thinking; the filing isn’t your job anymore.

Collect without breaking your reading flow

While you’re deep in source material, every save needs to be frictionless or you’ll stop doing it. Marqly gives you one-click save from the toolbar, with tags if you want them. At the end of a long session with fifteen sources open, the tab saver captures every open tab at once — no tab-by-tab triage.

The side-panel library keeps your collection visible while you work: browse and search your saves next to the page you’re reading, check whether you’ve already captured a source, and keep moving. Videos count as sources too — save a YouTube video and its transcript comes along with it, which pays off at retrieval time.

Highlight the passage, not just the page

A saved link tells you a source was useful. It doesn’t tell you why, and six weeks later that difference is everything. Marqly’s highlighter fixes the why: select text on any website, highlight it in one of six colors, and attach a note if the thought needs words.

Two things separate this from copy-pasting quotes into a doc. First, highlights persist on the page itself — revisit the source and your markup is still there, in context, exactly where you left it. Second, highlights sync to your library, so the flagged passages become part of the searchable record, not marginalia stranded on pages you’ll never reopen. Color becomes a lightweight code: evidence in one color, counterarguments in another, quotable lines in a third — whatever scheme matches how you work.

Retrieve by meaning, because that’s how memory works

You don’t remember titles. You remember that there was a study about remote teams shipping faster, or a long piece arguing the opposite of everyone else. Traditional bookmark search fails here because it needs the exact words; folder systems fail because they need Past You to have predicted this exact question.

Marqly’s semantic search runs on meaning. Describe what you remember — even vaguely — and it finds the source, searching across titles, full content, your highlights, and video transcripts. Highlighted passages make this sharper: the lines you flagged as important are precisely the ones search can match against. The full picture of how this works is in how to search bookmarks with AI, and why it beats folder discipline is argued in how to organize bookmarks.

When the backlog gets deep, AI summaries triage it: each saved article gets a summary, so deciding what deserves a full read takes seconds instead of a re-skim. And on Pro, you can go one step further and chat with your saves — ask “what did my sources say about switching costs?” and get an answer drawn from your own collection.

Keep each project’s sources together

Research is project-shaped, so Marqly gives you boards: group the links and highlights for one investigation in one place. A literature review, a competitive teardown, a story you’re reporting — each gets its own board, and a board can be shared as a public page that anyone can view without signing up, which is the low-friction way to hand a source list to an advisor or editor.

Getting started

Install the extension (Chrome, Edge, Firefox, or Safari) and create a free account at app.marqly.com — no card required. Then run your next research session normally, with two changes: save sources as you hit them, and highlight the passages that made each one worth saving.

That’s the whole methodology. No setup weekend, no taxonomy design. If you want the deeper system-building angle — research organization as a long-term knowledge practice — read how to build a second brain.

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Who this is not for

Marqly is not a citation manager. It won’t format references, export BibTeX, or manage citation styles — academics with bibliography requirements still need Zotero or similar alongside it. It’s not a collaborative workspace either: there are no shared team libraries or multi-user editing, so a lab group needing simultaneous access should look elsewhere. And it’s not where you write — drafting happens in your editor of choice.

The fit: you research alone or mostly alone, your sources are scattered across the web, and your real bottleneck is capturing them fast and finding them again weeks later. That collection-to-retrieval loop is exactly what Marqly is built to run.