You have keyboard shortcuts to quickly highlight text in the page. I like your idea of using icons though in the context menu.

Google linking works by adding your highlights in the comment field of google bookmarks. It’s handy because it allows you to have all your data stored inside Google Bookmarks: you can access them from any machine.

You should be asked by Yawas to login if you’re not when we try to highlight a page. There’s a little Yawas green box on the bottom right corner that you can click on if you’re not logged in.

Yawas is on Github so your contributions are welcome.

https://github.com/ldenoue/yawas

Laurent