Yawas Web Highlighter di Laurent Denoue

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di PERCE-NEIGE, 4 anni fa

Very good idea, but should be improved. You should replace the text in the context menu by an icon (red pen icon, yellow pen icon, or simply yellow square, a cross for "delete"...), it makes it faster to use, because you don't have to read the description (more instinctive) "Comment" doesn't work. (That's a pity, because I would need to pin comments to highlights). And I would even prefer a way with fewer click to highlight, the highlight tool directly in the context menu, with only one click (and changing the color in the options), it allows to work faster. (I don't have the window with colored round icons, that we can see on the image of your website)

How does it work for linking highlights to Google bookmarks (it's the best part of the addon)? Because I didn't see any login section.

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pubblicato il 4 anni fa

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

32 recensioni

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di Andre Bell, 9 mesi fa
Thanks for the follow up question. Today I reinstalled Yawas, a day later. Now Yawas works on web pages. Probably one of the other numerous extensions I had installed was an issue. IDK. I disabled a bunch of them before reinstalling Yawas. Anyhow is now a partial win. Works on web pages but not PDFs read by Firefox. Thx x2

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Firefox 124.0.1 (64-bit) on Windows nothing happens. Neither right clicking the highlighted text nor using the shortcuts. Bummer.
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pubblicato il 9 mesi fa
When you right click on selected text, do you not see a context menu with Yawas that you can open and pick a color?
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di Majsek, un anno fa
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di Rival, un anno fa
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di Kevin, un anno fa
I wish I could use a keyboard shortcut to make a highlight but other than that it's perfect for me
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pubblicato il un anno fa
You should be able to highlight with the key shortcuts found in the context menu. Select text, right click, Yawas and you'll see the key shortcuts listed there. On Chrome it is Cmd Shift Y (Yellow, etc)
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di Utente Firefox 13404543, un anno fa
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di LSAFER MEEMER, un anno fa
works! the highlights are saved after refresh and not like the other add-on.

But, controls are not fast enough. I have to select the text then right-click then choose the Yawas option then choose the color I want.
If there is a short-cut combination it would be better.

Nevermind, there is shortcuts! `Ctrl` + `Shift` + `G` for green and `Y` for yellow and `R` for red and `B` for blue.

Also, there is a problem when there is too many highlights in a single page.

I was reading some document and highlighting the things I have read and understood and my highlights are over 140 but when I refreshed they got down to 70
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di Aqordeon, 2 anni fa
cool. but there was an issue if the font is in white (or something gray). the font is hard to read if the background is colored. it would be great if you add feature to change the color too.
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di piecevcake, 2 anni fa
Easiest highlighter to use because of shortcuts and context. Great that it auto-saves as searchable bookmarks including highlighted text and added comment.
Would be good to be able to see manual comments on the web page.
Doesn't highlight PDFs -Dev??
Haven't figured out how to download the bookmarks to a text file yet, or the "blue" notes feature.
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pubblicato il 2 anni fa
Mozilla wasn’t happy with me using a third party library pdfjs for viewing pdf files so I removed support for pdf highlights. But if you install Yawas from the GitHub source then you can enable it.
https://github.com/ldenoue/yawas

The highlights are stored now inside your browser bookmarks: so there must be a way for you to export them using the built in browser tool?
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di Markenson, 2 anni fa
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di Ahmed, 2 anni fa
Works and great idea to sync via bookmarks but could could use more features like:
--option to instead of date folder structure to just list all in one folder (prefixed with date stamp)
--option to exclude page title (for easier skimming and review on other devices)
--organizing them within folders via category
--"snoozing" to a certain time and using as a flashcard system and overall more highlight management.

Also it is confusing how this has to do with Google bookmarks.
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pubblicato il 2 anni fa
I tried to store all inside a single folder but it was hanging the chrome or Firefox bookmarks UI. That’s why I had to separate them into year and then months.
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di Utente Firefox 17258886, 3 anni fa
Does nothing on Firefox version 96 on Ubuntu (2022). Good idea though
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di Utente Firefox 13307652, 3 anni fa
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di mrRootLog, 3 anni fa
Doesn't work
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di thedivclass, 3 anni fa
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di Bout's Morgan, 3 anni fa
Excellente extension. Merci Laurent !
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pubblicato il 2 anni fa
Merci!
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di Utente Firefox 12643979, 4 anni fa
Using it for the first time and like it so far.Pity you don't propose to change web pages in pdf upstream. If you plan to do it let us know. Thank you. XL
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di Utente Firefox 13443820, 4 anni fa
Not work at all
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di laodan, 4 anni fa
Thanks a lot. I'm a writer and find Yawas is a great tool to store future usable quotes.

The highlight works fine and Google/bookmarks is great for storage.

One suggestion would be to customize how the text of the highlights appears in Google/bookmarks :
-- you are using << as starting point of the first highlight on a given page and close it with >> << ... >> << ... >>
-- the next highlights follow as indicated
-- the result is visually confusing.
I manually edit the text of a bookmark by replacing << with br inside < >
and >> << with br br < >
The result is a clean and visually ordered text.

Would it be possible to tweak Yawas along those lines ?
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Answer to your response here under.

I discovered indeed that Yawas does not find the highlights after having edited out the << and >>.

An empty line between highlights is radically improving readability and I discover that the presence of the markers is useful in the sense that they signal the presence of text on the webpage that was not highlighted in-between these markers.

Thanks for adding an empty line between highlights.
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pubblicato il 4 anni fa
Hello
By editing out the << and >>, Yawas will not find your highlights well the next time you visit the page. (It depends on these markers to recreate the highlights and comments)
But we could add newlines between highlights to improve readability.
Notice that Yawas is open source at https://github.com/ldenoue/yawas

Thoughts?
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di abtxu, 5 anni fa
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di OmTatSat, 5 anni fa
Thank you for great addon!
Also had problem "Didn't work. It said "Yawas cannot store your highlight because you are signed out. Please signin first and then refresh this page" I signed into google, didn't work.. "
To fix problem i logouted from gmail site in Firefox and logined again. After this, worked fine)
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pubblicato il 5 anni fa
Thank you!
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di JackD, 5 anni fa
Didn't work. It said "Yawas cannot store your highlight because you are signed out. Please signin first and then refresh this page" I signed into google, didn't work.. Signed into FF sync, didn't work. I have no other highlighters installed.
FF 69, Ubuntu 16.04
I'll keep it long enough for you to reply just in case it can be made to work. I really hope so.
EDIT: Tried that, made gmail the 1st tab open, didn't help. Couldn't find the .js script you mentioned.
Uninstalled.
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pubblicato il 5 anni fa
strange. could you try opening gmail in a tab, make sure you're signed in, then open a new tab, navigate somewhere and try to highlight something? Alternatively, open the extensions panel, and look for the script background.js of the Yawas: the console might show some error messages. Thanks.
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di Peter Lyons Kehl, 5 anni fa
How great. I compared many highlighting/note taking add-ons, and this one wins. Why?

- It stores the text(s) that you highlighted. Even if the page changes (or disappears) later, your highlights stay.
- It backs them up (stores them) and shares them with Firefox synchronization across your computers/profiles and devices.

Would you like to organize the bookmarks (and highlights stored in bookmarks)? Use https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/bookmark-search-plus-2.

Would you like to print a page with your highlights? Or to export it as a PDF? Don't use standard Firefox printing (or printing to a file). I tested nine most used and highest rated PDF extensions. Out of them, only one saves the page with your highlights. It's slow, but it works: https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/fireshot.

If a website disables right click/text select, use https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/absolute-enable-right-click.

Beware of 4096 characters limit for the total of the title and all the highlights.
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di Utente Firefox 15121230, 5 anni fa
I do not recommend you to use this extension. It suddenly started to use 50-60% of my CPU. I couldn't do anything until I remove this extension.
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pubblicato il 5 anni fa
You're right, I introduced a bug in version 6.0.16 but fixed it in 7.0.0 as well as made PDF highlighting work with local files.
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di Utente Firefox 12764574, 6 anni fa