Reviews for Textmarker
Textmarker by underflyingbirches
166 reviews
- Rated 5 out of 5by mbib, 4 years agoExcellent tool, been looking for something like this for ages. Thank you!
- Rated 5 out of 5by monojo, 4 years ago
- Rated 3 out of 5by hmijail, 4 years agoWorks OK if used carefully and in strictly static pages. Unreliable if not. Beware of strange failures if the page does ever change, or if you happen to open the same tab twice.
Developer response
posted 4 years agoHi hmijail, as I tried to explain to you on GitHub: There is nothing strange about restoration failures of saved highlights for pages that change their content. In fact it's expected and I notify users in bold letters about it both on this addon page as well as on the Textmarker pages.
A restoration cannot be successful if:
1) The highlighted text is not on the page anymore (obviously) or
2) The "surrounding content" of the highlight has changed: As explained on GitHub, since DOM elements ceise to exist on page unload there is no way of saving a direct reference, which is why Textmarker has to rely on an indirect description of the highlight's location. This description holds information about the `nodeName` of the ancestor DOM elements as well as the position of those elements (i.e. 3rd child node of its parent element) and the corresp. text node's starting point of the selection. So a verbalized example description could be (a bit simplified):
"Starts at character 4 of the 3rd child node of a p-element, which is the first child of a div-element"
This is necessary, because a highlighted text could occur multiple times on a give page, so it wouldn't be sufficient on page revisit to just search for that text and highlight the first occurrence. - Rated 5 out of 5by Geetakshi, 4 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 13959700, 4 years ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by piecevcake, 4 years agoNeeds a proper support page not an email. Custom markers DONT import (they are in the json file)-please fix! Re-creating 14 markers in every profile is not fun. Can't read urls in history window please take size limit off the pane or wrap them.
Good shortcuts now - Need shortcut or DIRECT context (not 3 click, and not a whole sidebar!) to add note to a highlight
Excellent concept. Highlighter linked to note, with clickable index in separate browser page. Excellent customisation of highlighting and easy intuitive use. Can export all highlighted text from one or selected pages with URLs and dates, to paste into documents.
Enhancements suggested:
1. Notes resizing is limited - cant make small enough
3. notes with callout arrow to the highlight would be great.
4. Clickable marker on the highlight for notes (like the one for bookmark) would be very useful to show where notes are and access minimised notes (instead of 3 clicks through page context menu?).
+looking forward to ability to use on FF pages. :-) - Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 14699579, 4 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by antistress, 4 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Louis Cook, 4 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by abtxu, 4 years agoBrilliant but why there is no short cut for adding notes? Suggestion: click on highlight to creat notes.
1) via context menu (settings > shortcuts)——not possible
2) via button in Textmarker's sidebar -> just click a highlight first, then the button——not answering the question.
3) under settings > markers you can equip any marker with automatic notes. ——This one works. Thank you developer!Developer response
posted 4 years agoUpdate:
Latest version includes a shortcut for adding notes. By default this is Shift+N and disabled. Enable and customize on Settings>Shortcuts. Make sure the highlight to add the note to is being selected - i.e. by clicking it.
There are 3 easy ways to add notes to highlights:
1) via context menu (settings > shortcuts)
2) via button in Textmarker's sidebar -> just click a highlight first, then the button
3) under settings > markers you can equip any marker with automatic notes. Suggestion: just add a custom marker that will not only highlight but also automatically add a note in a color of choice ;) - Rated 4 out of 5by askolvid, 4 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by mggm, 4 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Cloris Bertha, 4 years agoThis is the best application I've ever used. It's really powerful to use with another app evernote web clipper!
It can easily highlight the key text on the web screen, which is so useful for learning!
这是我用过的最棒的应用,配合印象笔记简直强大!
轻松在网页屏幕上面高亮重点文本,对于学习来说太好用!
Das ist die beste Anwendung, die ich je benutzt habe.
Leicht markieren Sie den Schlüsseltext auf dem Web-Bildschirm, der zu leicht zu erlernen ist!
Это лучшее, что я когда - либо использовал, с эверноте просто сильная!
легко сделать основной текст на экране веб - сайта, слишком хорошо для обучения!
C 'est la meilleure application que j' ai utilisée, avec evernote, c 'est très fort!
Facile à lire sur un écran Web, le texte principal est très clair, très utile pour apprendre!
これは私が使った最高のアプリです。Evernoteと協力するととても強いです。
気軽にホームページのスクリーンの上で明るくて重点のテキスト、学習にとってとても使いやすいです!
이것 은 내 가 사용 한 최고의 어 플 이다. 에 버 노트 에 맞 춰 서 는 정말 강하 다!
쉽게 웹 화면 에 하 이 라 이 트 된 중점 텍스트 는 공부 하기에 아주 좋 습 니 다!
呢个系我用过嘅,最叻嘅应用,配合Evernote简直强大!
松喺网页屏幕上高亮我个point文本,对于学习嚟讲好用! - Rated 4 out of 5by Firefox user 15669163, 4 years agoI can not sync entries on different PC when my Firefox account is logged in
Developer response
posted 4 years agofor help please either contact the dev via e-mail (undflybir at gmx dot de) or open an issue on github (https://github.com/ufb/Textmarker/issues) - Rated 5 out of 5by Kartik, 4 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 15679260, 4 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Remmer, 4 years agoDev is a really nice person. This plugin is awesome. Amazing work!
- Rated 5 out of 5by visika, 4 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by NVMontana, 4 years ago
- Rated 2 out of 5by Firefox user 10396152, 5 years agoUnusable with fast changing websites:
I always have CookieClicker open in a pinned tab in background. This game has not a lot, but frequent changing text. My CPU fan was spinning up and I now found that Firefox was maxing out 2 CPU cores due to this addon (confirmed per about:performance report).
It's unacceptable for an add-on to skyrocket CPU usage. It's "monitoring for text changes" must be limited to the currently open tab at the very least. But it's apparent there're more power savings/optimisations possible.Developer response
posted 5 years agoWhy would you want to use Textmarker on pages that frequently change their text content? Doesn't make any sense to me. You can opt-out of automatic content script loading and decide yourself for each website to load Textmarker or not. Also, this skyrocketing CPU usage can't be reproduced - neither by me nor by users who help me testing. So, if you want to enjoy free open-source software with less bugs then helping the devs in supplying detailed bug reports would be more efficient than letting the world know about what'd be acceptable and what not. Cheers. - Rated 5 out of 5by petermouse, 5 years ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by picypoe, 5 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Arun G, 5 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Aftab, 5 years agoAfter initially it failing to work.
It sudenly started working.
Now i haver to give 5 stars becuase it works as good as i wanted it to work.
The ability to do Keyboard shortcuts and quick highlights and notes is briulliant.
Lots of kudos to the developer for this Addon. I'll even make a donation if it continues to work well. - Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 15235207, 5 years ago