Notate — Research Highlighter & Web Clipper with AI

About

Notate is the browser toolkit that turns what you read and watch into lasting knowledge—highlight, chat with AI, and export to Notion or Obsidian.

Capture text from any webpage, video timestamps from YouTube, or selections from PDFs. Add notes, ask AI questions about what you've found, and sync everything to your knowledge base. One workflow for all content.

Key features

- Highlight anything: Save text passages from web pages, timestamped video segments from YouTube, PDF selections, or screenshot any region—all with full source context preserved.
- Built-in AI chat: Select any text and ask GPT-4o questions about it instantly. Deep Dive fetches relevant resources to expand your understanding.
- Notes on the fly: Add quick notes to any highlight while the context is fresh.
- Collections: Group related highlights and notes into organized sets.
- Trail recording: Capture a sequence of highlights across multiple pages in one session, then export the whole trail.
- Export to Notion & Obsidian: Sync highlights directly to your Notion databases or Obsidian vault—structured and ready to use.
- Screenshots with context: Capture any region of a page, annotate it, and save it alongside your highlights.
- Keyboard-first: Cmd/Ctrl shortcuts for highlighting, notes, AI chat, and screenshots. Built for speed.

Works with

- Web pages
- YouTube and video platforms
- PDFs (native and embedded)
- Screenshots from any site

Perfect for

- Researchers and students who need accurate citations and organized references
- Knowledge workers building a personal wiki from daily browsing
- Anyone who wants to ask AI about content they're reading, right where they found it

How it works

1. Highlight: Select text, a video moment, or a PDF passage.
2. Enhance: Add a note, ask AI a question, or file it in a collection.
3. Export: Sync to Notion or Obsidian, or return to the exact source later.

Why Notate

- Capture without context-switching: Highlight and annotate without leaving the page.
- AI where you need it: Ask questions about selected text immediately—no copy-paste to ChatGPT.
- Your knowledge, your tools: Export to Notion or Obsidian, not a proprietary silo.

Privacy & control

- Your data stays yours. No ads, no data selling.
- Local-first with optional cloud sync.
- Fast, reliable, and respectful.

Get started

- Install Notate, highlight something meaningful, and click once.
- That’s it -- clip, think, return, faster.