🖥️🖱️ Save any text from Chrome to your notes

A few weeks ago I shared how you can share text from your iPhone to your notes. Today, I’ll show you how to do something similar.

This email will walk through how to save highlighted text from your Chrome browser, right to your notes.

Use it to:

• Quickly save text from emails to your notes

• Highlight and save any text from an article or webpage

• Save highlighted text using a keyboard shortcut

Download the Reflect Chrome extension

First you’ll need to download and login to Reflect’s Chrome extension.

It does a number of things syncing Kindle books, saving Tweets, and let’s you take notes from a browser page, etc. If you want to ignore these, simply toggle them off.

Highlight and save text

Now you should be able to select any text on a Chrome webpage, right click and select “Save highlight to Reflect”.

You can also use the shortcut cmd shift p after highlighting text to save it.

How the saved text appears in your notes

The highlighted text will be saved under a backlinked note with the webpage’s title on the current day’s daily note.

Within this backlinked note, you’ll find the webpage link, a #link tag, a short description and any text you’ve highlighted.

This means that any text you highlight will be added to this same backlinked note. You can highlight as many chunks of text, and they will appear as new line items.