The notebook your highlights belong in.
This does not exist yet. There is nothing to download, no waiting list, and no date being promised. This page says what is being built so that the word “bridge” in the extension has something to point at.
The extension already does more than mark a passage — you can write a note on one, and the panel lists every note on the page. What it cannot do is look across pages. Each document keeps its own marks and its own notes, and finding something three months later means first remembering which document it was in.
That is the gap. Marks and notes from everything you have read, in one place, each arriving with the document it came from, the passage around it, and the address that gets you back.
Marks and notes are trapped in the page they were made on. Finding one means remembering which document it was in.
Everything is local storage today, by design. Carrying it to another computer is something you have to opt into, and there is nothing to opt into yet.
Passages from ten sources that belong to one question, gathered in one place.
Markdown out, on demand, in a form you can read without Notestark. Data you cannot remove is not yours.
The extension came first and stands on its own — it will keep working as a highlighter whether or not you ever install the app. When the app exists, the extension gains one more job: handing over the marks you made, when you ask it to.
Two commitments about that hand-off, made now so they are on the record:
Progress on the extension is public in its changelog, and ideas are welcome on the issue tracker. There is no announcement list to join, and no address to leave: a mailing list would mean holding everyone’s email address, which is exactly the kind of data this project does not keep. Watching the repository on GitHub is the way to hear about it, and it costs us nothing to know about you.
In the meantime, the extension is the part that works today.