Beacon

About

Beacon is a minimalist Chrome extension for highlighting text on webpages and navigating long content faster.

It helps you mark important passages while reading and turns each highlight into a small color marker on the right edge of the page. These markers reflect where the highlighted text appears in the article, documentation, report, or reference page, so you can quickly jump back to key sections with one click.

Beacon is built for people who read long articles, do online research, review technical documentation, collect important information, or study web content in depth. Instead of interrupting the page layout, it adds a lightweight visual map that makes highlighted content easier to revisit.

📌 Why use Beacon

• Highlight important text on any webpage
• Navigate long articles and web pages more efficiently
• Quickly return to key passages while reading or researching
• Keep track of important sections in documentation, reports, and reference materials
• Review highlighted content without losing your place

✨ Key Features

⚡ Fast text highlighting
Select text and use a keyboard shortcut to create a highlight instantly. This makes Beacon a simple and efficient web highlighter for research, study, and focused reading.

⌨️ Custom keyboard shortcuts
Default shortcut:
Mac: Command + Shift + F
Windows: Alt + Shift + F
You can customize shortcuts anytime in Chrome’s extension keyboard shortcut settings.

📍 Edge-aligned highlight markers
Beacon displays your highlights as clickable color blocks along the right edge of the page. This gives you a quick visual overview of where important information appears in long-form content.

🎯 One-click navigation
Click a marker to jump directly back to the original highlighted text. This is especially useful for long articles, research pages, documentation, and technical references.

👀 Clean and distraction-free reading experience
Beacon is designed to stay subtle and lightweight. It helps you highlight and navigate content without cluttering the page or disrupting your reading flow.

💬 Hover preview
Hover over a marker to preview the related highlighted text before jumping to it.

💾 Local highlight saving
Highlights are stored locally based on the current page URL, so your reading markers stay available after refreshing the page or revisiting it later.

🧹 Easy management
Open the extension sidebar to view your shortcut and clear highlights for the current page when needed.

🛠 Great for

• Web research
• Deep reading
• Long articles
• Technical documentation
• API reference pages
• Reports and knowledge pages
• Study and review
• Information collection

Beacon is a simple text highlighter and webpage navigation tool that helps you find important content faster and return to it anytime.