From: Ruud Hein

https://twitter.com/RuudHein/status/1263800137198993408?s=20

Edge case, maybe. I often create my own title, so I don't need the bullets as children. Have to manually unindent them. I know....tiring, right :D

Dreaming: combine with YAWAS, storing highlights in Google Bookmarks, so on next visit you can show the highlights :)

It would be a great tool, if that window remains open even when we switch the tabs.
this way we can copy text from more than one website in one go, and paste the final content in roam...

https://twitter.com/itsmelahi/status/1263196892768333824?s=21

Roam Slack Thread: https://roamresearch.slack.com/archives/G013D2T1SSG/p1589154146050400

Mat McGann: @ Murf Not sure if other people are getting this but my Windows Security is stopping me using the highlighter thinking there's a trojan in it

Mat McGann: This occured just as the download of the github repo finished

It would be amazing if roam-highlighter could handle MathJAX highlighting appropriately. Right now, the output is a little bit of a mess. See for example https://arxiv.org/abs/1404.1455, if I highlight the abstract,

this is the output:

We present the first results of searches for axions and axion-like-particles with the XENON100 experiment. The axion-electron coupling constant,

g

A

e

g_{Ae}

etc. Hopefully there's a way to detect MathJAX, and put in some $ signs? Thanks!

Settings like the added tag or how to handle line breaks could be saved across tabs & sessions, so you don't have to re-input them for every new webpage.

Btw, great ideas in this plugin.

I'm using the extension in Microsoft Edge (Chromium) and can't open respectively can't the settings. If I try to open them the content is moved to the left but no settings are display as you can see from the following screenshot.

Add in comments new specific issues as they come up for specific websites/articles that have some peculiarity with the way Roam-highlighter grabs the info.

From: John PB

Slack: https://roamresearch.slack.com/archives/G013D2T1SSG/p1590286888294400

Wondered if there was a way of simplifying the create new link function? Instead of one option for a single word link and one for a multi-word link could they be combined into a single command? Also any way of differentiating a # from a [[]] type link? Or even creating an attribute:: type link. I know - it could get quite complex! Thanks, great work.

Just installed latest Chrome Extension 1.9.7.2
Can only highlight using Crtl-X,
Mouse/cursor does not highlight ie no yellow and no copy to sidebar.
Have tried on Chrome and Edge latest versions.

https://roamresearch.slack.com/archives/G013D2T1SSG/p1592505413453600

is there a way that, having turned "this is a heading" (Alt-A) on once, it can be turned off?

Maybe have a “simple mode” which keeps all highlights together on same line if see things like last “element/part” ended with a “ “ or “(“ etc. or current element/part starts with a “ “ space or punctuation like period or exclamation point etc. or “)”.

Then user can see what that looks like and then choose another pre configured option from a drop down that maybe does today’s current mixed logic.

Create several options user can quickly flip between and see what text will look like and choose which setting/mode they like best.

From: Ivo

Slack: https://roamresearch.slack.com/archives/D013WA1GKFD/p1590242350002700

I have reported one serious issue with Wikipedia in the channel. Here's a smaller one with Wikiquote:

https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Louis_Pasteur

• Louis Pasteur - Wikiquote #[[Roam-Highlights]]
• Dans les champs de l'observation le hasard ne favorise que les esprits préparés.
• In the fields of observation chance favours only the prepared mind.

• Lecture, University of Lille (7 December 1854) 👈 the issue is with this line - it stays the same level while it shouldn't

• Variant translations of this or similar statements include:
• Chance favors the prepared mind.
• Fortune favors the prepared mind.
• In the field of observation, chance favors the prepared mind.
• Where observation is concerned, chance favors only the prepared mind.

Hi Murf - highlighter is good - great job.

Is there a way for me to configure so I can paste - this - by default - so that I don't have to go and delete it for each copy...
Rom 2:12 NIV - All who sin apart from the law will - Bible Gateway

as this: Rom 2:12

So without " NIV - All who sin apart from the law will - Bible Gateway "

Thanks Mate - (go to write mode to see my issue)

https://roamresearch.slack.com/archives/G013D2T1SSG/p1591790551427600

Abhay

Another [[Feature request]]: I use this extension to copy a Markdown formatted list of all the open tabs I have into Roam. Could this feature also be integrated in Roam Highlighter? Not super urgent, since I can always just use this existing extension as needed.

Murf

Oh I LOVE that! So you mean it would basically list all the tabs in page title format? So basically create “bookmark” links of all tabs open? And then would you like them nested under a parent bullet named like “[[Roam-Highlighter]] All Tabs” or something like that? Then I would still have option to uncheck the box so no parent bullet and you could change the [[roam-highlights]] tag as well or have it blank. Thoughts?

One thing I’ll probably do is have it only do the tabs in that current window so that you can group them and know this chunk of tabs is my “tabs I was researching Roam on” and then could do it in another window of tabs and say it is “random browsing tabs”. Make sense?

You could probably rebrand the Highlighter for all MD tools, including Obsidian, Notion, Bear, Slite etc (there are dozens). For most, it would probably work as it is and for some, it would require additional work but this way it could read a much bigger population.

Steve Poindexter(opens in new tab) @Murf This is incredible, thank you! Huge boost to what I've been trying to do. Very much appreciated! If you could figure out a way to preserve a URL link in what is highlighted, I would VERY seriously consider naming that fifth child I'm never going to have Murf.

I think this would add immensely to the value of the extension. Often the images are an important part of the article/text.

Hey Murf I had a feature request. basically, a way to paste highlights so that the article title is Page Title and highlights are pasted below. all the details in this thread https://twitter.com/shacrw_/status/1272262462088282115

Murf

shacrw I’m a little confused. You know there are two Roam highlighters (I know confusing) and this one you are showing in screenshot is not the one I created right?

Shacrw

Im aware of that. but it applies to both extensions. Right now the Title+URL are pasted in above format(This Is the Current Output image), what I want is in the next tweet.

Attaching the screenshot from 2nd tweet here. here, the article title is the page title and it's not a hyperlink. then all other content is in the bullet points in the body below. this is what I want. Is it clear now?

Murf

Ok yeah it makes sense. But obviously my extension can’t create a new page in Roam for you... until we get an API ofcourse ;)

So then are you saying you just want the highlights at “root” level instead of indenting under the Page Title / URL? And then have an attribute called URL:: and add the URL with that as the first bullet? Author isn’t something you can consistently parse out so I wouldn’t be able to do that from your screenshot.

Lastly for the URL:: atrribute do you just want the raw URL? Or do you want that in Page Title format?

Shacrw

Basically, what I want is the Page Title in the Title and URL format can be anything ( raw or Markdown). similarly, highlights could be under Source Highlights section . The main thing was that Page Title should have the website title (as I had described in the tweet below) and rest of the stuff in the body below (their formatting not a concern as Metadata layout is always changing). In order to jump from Title to main body, "Ctrl+Enter" needs to be triggered so would require some JS trigger b/w the Title and the URL I guess.

leave it for now because there's additional metadata in the body too, I am trying to combine metadata template with the Page Title+URL together, so that they can be pasted in one go and also I am constantly changing what fits my workflow so it's better that I first experiment with it myself first.

For now, I'll just use the highlighter extension for highlights. On my end, I am fiddling with a local version of the "copy as markdown" extension for trying out different stuff.
sorry for the late reply, had seen your comment on phone, then forgot to reply later when switched to the laptop.(should've used Quick Capture on phone to remind me of this😅).
https://twitter.com/shacrw_/status/1272262464181338112

btw, one thing I would suggest is offering a way to define own template like in the other Roam-highlighter, this is something which would be useful to all as it also saves time copying empty Metadata template and populating a New page with it ( a practice which is shown in many roam tutorials). So, that the URL, title and highlights get pasted in their respective fields and others remain empty which can then be filled up in the Roam page by the user. Like this:

From Ivo V: I used it a few times so far and I'm happy with it. The only annoying thing is that clicking on the icon started to bring a pop-up with options. It was nicer without it. I understand that in some cases it's useful, but for me it just takes part of the screen and I have to click "hide" every time. It would be better if it's optional and configured in the extension settings. I would certainly use the highlighter more.

From Ivo V: In terms of features, I hope that one day I'd be able, once a log in thought the extension, to send highlights to Roam directly from the web page, the way I one does with Evernote clipper. (Now, as I'm slowly leaving Evernote, the web clipper is one of the main things I miss)

Mat McGann: Brilliant! Only thought is that I'd be more likely to want to double click a word to link-highlight it than I would want to un-do the first highlight. So maybe Esc or right-click could undo the paste and double-click could select the whole word. But not sure, I'll download it and try it out.

Slack link: https://roamresearch.slack.com/archives/CN5MK4D2M/p1589153683094500?thread_ts=1588884673.262800&cid=CN5MK4D2M

My thoughts on this:

@ Mat McGann good point/idea. Although that is assuming you just want a "one word" page link for Roam. I have tons of pages/tags that are multiple words. I will put it on my list to look at options like this but probably wont be done for a few days as long as the feature is working "as is" with the current selection of text you want added with a page link. Below is my preliminary thought on it (but don't know exactly if this will work until i test it):

• Problem with double-click is that I already use "Single click" to remove a highlight so it may fire that event first before I can get the double click in.
• That being said, I may reverse it where double click removes a highlight (which is probably better anyways)
  • and then Single click would add/remove a page/link (highighted blue) if present
  • because then it won't interfere with the double click as long as if I try to remove a highlight with double-click I select the yellow part and not the blue page/link part.
• Then if you want multi-word page link, I will keep the current feature where if you select something in a already yellow highlighted text, then it will create page link for that too so you can have multi-word page links.
• I'll have to look into keystrokes like ESC etc. for potential other options

Hi!

Loved the idea! I'm a Firefox user, is there any chance this gets published as a Firefox extension?

Thanks for your work!

Hello again!

I am not sure if I framed this request right. Please, look:

Link: https://notes.andymatuschak.org/

When I replace the page that I am reading its highlights go away. Nothing unexpected--the address changes.

This is a very unusual use case, I guess. Ideally, I would want to insert notes regardless of the change of address, but I am afraid that is counterintuitive.

Another almost equal website is this.

Nevertheless, this doesn't affect me much right now. For me, a simple workaround is to send to roam right away. I just think you should know, even if it is to maybe give you insights on other features.

Thanks!

Start with this.

Here is a bulleted list:

• One
• Two
  • Two-one
    • Two-one-one
      • Two-one-one-one
    • Two-one-two
  • Two-two
• Three

No More bullets

https://roamresearch.slack.com/archives/G013D2T1SSG/p1594037382477200

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2020/07/white-evangelicals-black-lives-matter/613738/

@ Murf The Atlantic gives consistent line- or paragraph-breaks just before mid-sentence links:

Hi, I have RH installed in Chromium for use with Obsidian. I did something stupid: I clicked on the black button "clear all highlights".

I tried to undo with CTRL+Z but nothing happened. I am afraid you'll tell me they're lost forever, but I am hoping there is a way to recover them. Is there?

Hello,

Thanks a lot for making this. I am not sure what's the right place to post the popular websites where the tools isn't working as expected. But here are a couple of sites that I go to regularly:

http://www.paulgraham.com
https://numinous.productions/ttft/

As can be seen on these sites, the tool makes each line as a new bullet. Looking at chrome inspector, I do understand that the pages are structured in a weird way which is breaking the tool and maybe you are already working on fixing these outliers.

Apologies if this isn't the right place to post this issue.

Your plugin is amazing!! Thank you sir/Madam

I've been using it a lot. however one thing that troubles me is that when I am using it to selectively read of Wikipedia, I end up lifting links that I do not want. And so I end up editing the copy pasted page to remove links.
If only there was a way to turn off this feature!

Gary Basin from slack

feature request: image highlighting so they can be embedded along with notes!

I opened this link in GetPocket. When I highlighted, this is what I got in the sidebar. It would be great to remove the HTML formatting tags otherwise it's impossible to use the extension. Thanks!

Here's what it looks like - https://share.getcloudapp.com/2NuXDnGZ

• [Pocket - A Message from Co-Founder and CEO Brian Chesky](https://app.getpocket.com/read/2973631977) #[[Roam-Highlights]]
  • __would have to go further when we faced two hard truths:__
  • __We don’t know exactly when travel will return.__
  • __When travel does return, it will look different.__
  • __While we know Airbnb’s business will fully recover, the changes it will undergo are not temporary or short-lived. Because of this, we need to make more [[[[[[fundamental]]]]]] changes to Airbnb by reducing the size of our workforce around a more focused business strategy.__

From: theunis

https://roamresearch.slack.com/archives/G013D2T1SSG/p1589213159063700

@ Murf not sure if this has been mentioned before but i suggest you have the "chrome extension" folder be ready to go from the download, instead of having to copy the highlighter.js file in there, that workflow is quite strange ( / unexpected). the chrome extension folder is effectively a distribution, so I'd recommend just having a copy of everything in there for now.

From slack DM from Paul Loeffler:

hi Murf i have been using the highlighter esp for Kindle to Roam. I have long highlights and notes and it cuts them off. Can you allow for longer highlights and notes? They are in the HTML export ... Thank you for the very cool ext. cheers

https://roamresearch.slack.com/archives/G013D2T1SSG/p1591726531416900

Abhay

[[Feature request]] Twitter thread markdown export: If I’m on a Twitter thread, can the highlighter do a threadreaderapp style unroll of the thread (with just OP tweets, no other replies)? Not sure how difficult this is. Pasting original tweet URL is not searchable and not thread friendly. Believe Readwise has this feature, but given highlighter handles Kindle highlights, adding Twitter thread extract/export would mean I don’t really need Readwise at all.

Even imagining thread of threads where you get the underlying threads indented. Like https://treeverse.app/ (without the viz)

Murf

Awesome idea and twitter is on my list since I know so important to many of you. I personally don’t use twitter much so reason hasn’t been a priority but I’ll bump it up on the list. I’m already past due on an update in general ;-p

Do you mind doing like a GIF or video showing me manually what you want? I’m pretty twitter illiterate and the way everything gets threaded and comments of comments confuses me sometimes haha so I need a mock-up of what you would like. Start with basic example of 80% of what you’d want... and then maybe another example of perfect world with threading comments/replies etc. You think you could mock something up for me like that?

Essentially could just be video of you going to a tweet, copying manually what you want and pasting into roam... then going back to twitter and copying whatever else you’d like from a typical twitter “thread” and pasting into roam manually and then showing in roam the formatting/nesting you’d prefer setup. That would help a lot!!

Abhay

Oh snap as I was looking through I found https://jikji.pro/ which does a one-click thread unroll in nice format.

Murf

nice, I could definitely add something like that (similar to my kindle extraction).... just wont be as "pretty" as that tool haha

but would still be helpful if you can give me an example tweet/thread and what you'd expect to see and in what "format". Cuz then we can customize my extension based on all your wish list items 😉

Abhay

Her’s a GIF of how I would do it currently! What’s missing here is pasting in the link to the original Tweet and maybe some info about the original tweet (Account, Timestamp) - stuff that Roam Highlighter should be able to extract.

Murf I Linked you to the Treeverse branch that has created a really good implementation of this. I don’t think you should invest too much time in this feature.

Ok I’ll implement the auto highlight option into the settings over the next couple days so you can choose to highlight on selection without needing to use Ctrl+X. Does that sound good?

It's even simpler than that. It's a matter of actual experience starting from the extension page. For example: "To use the highlighter all you need to do is click on the icon, select text to highlight, pres Ctr+X, then next and when you are done, just paste in Roam. But if you want specific behaviour, the Highlighter is highly customisable and rich of features". Currently, the feeling is that RH cares only about the power user and one has the feeling that without watching a video and reading tutorials, one can't start using it just like that. Is it more clear now?

Hi!

Is there any way to add an option to remove external links? Sometimes they're not meaningful, and removing them takes some manual work...

Thanks!

On browser, open pdf files, and highlight the content in those files - extract as obsidian or roam formatted text. This should be possible (hypothes.is does something similar).

https://roamresearch.slack.com/archives/D013WA1GKFD/p1593939727001100

A small issue: when highlighting the references after Further reading here, they are not treated as blocks.

To your second point that one is a bit more sensitive. Since I’m messing with the clipboard and binding to a key like ctrl+X I don’t want to auto start the extension on every tab because I can hear it now “my ctrl+x is broken on websites after installing extension when I didn’t want to run it. How do I turn it off?” So that one is more dangerous.

I’ll dig around and see if there is a good way to give the user an option to auto start or not without me needing to change the overall code/structure too much. Fair enough?

Hello,

First of all, thank you for this great tool!

I am only using for a day. Yesterday I didn't find anything wrong. However, today I noticed this bug in the side window:

After recording it, I reinstalled the extension: same problem. I also tried in Chromium: no luck.

This is a minor thing, but I think you should know.

Thanks again and let me know if there is any info you need from here.

Roam-highlighter v. 1.9.7.1
Tested in Firefox v. 76 and Chrome v. 85

1. In a tab, Roam-highlighter panel expanded
2. Settings set to Obsidian
3. Hit save
4. Close browser
5. Reboot and go back to the same tab
6. Roam-highlighter has gone back to Roam as its default setting

From Ivo:

Wish: There is just one thing I would really love to have and it's the one I would surely use the most: the current "Copy Page Title & URL" feature to work directly, without clicking on the extension icon first. I can't overstate how useful this would be. 95% I just need the URL in and 5% - highlights. I guess this is the case with most people but I might be wrong.

From: Ivo

Slack: https://roamresearch.slack.com/archives/G013D2T1SSG/p1589818046233400

I'm decluttering very often with Mecrury Reader. It seems to clash with the great RH.

The RH doesn't do anything there. To reproduce it, you need to install Mercury Reader, and activate on an article.

Firefox extension/add-on is ready to go but just got this from Mozilla... they won't approve my highlighter extension until Roam is public or Open Beta! Lame!

Since Firefox won't let us upload a public add-on until Roam is open Beta, I created a private add-on you have to download directly. Here is the link.

https://github.com/GitMurf/roam-highlighter/blob/master/Firefox%20temp%20Add-on/roam_highlighter-1.8-fx.xpi

Go to that GitHub page, click "Download" and then choose to "Open" and choose "Firefox" as the program to open with (this is at least from a Windows perspective). It should install the Add-on for you. Let me know if you have any issues.

Hey man! Lovely plugin. Been using it with Obsidian for a while Now.

I use it to take notes off Wikipedia articles. It would be helpful if you could add the feature to turn off links. I would prefer not to have links in my note that arent added by me - I usually take notes off webpages and I will have to manually delete links from extracts - this takes a lot of time.

Thanks and regards!

I'm on a page, I hit Alt-X (or click on the icon) to show the Roam Highlighter window. I select any text on the page. The text is not highlighted yellow like in the demos. Nothing shows up in the Roam Highlighter pane.

I copy the text. Still nothing. Is there more to this than I'm not aware of?

When you highlight text that has a Link in it or Code formatting, the highlighter skips it and it is not copied. See comments below as I gather examples.

• Links [a]
• Code and other "pre" stuff [pre/code]