Trace

About

Save, organize, and rediscover important text from any webpage.
Trace is a lightweight Chrome extension that lets you highlight and save text snippets as you browse. Your highlights are automatically restored when you revisit pages, making it easy to build a personal knowledge base from the web.

Why Trace?
• AI Conversations — ChatGPT, Claude, and other AI chats get long fast. Trace lets you mark the golden nuggets so you can find that perfect code snippet or explanation from weeks ago.

• Research & Learning — Highlight key insights across articles, documentation, and tutorials. Build your own searchable knowledge trail.

• Reading & Reference — Save quotes, statistics, or important passages. Never lose that paragraph you meant to come back to.

Features
• Instant Highlighting — Select text, right-click, and save. Your highlight appears immediately.

• Auto-Restore — Highlights automatically reappear when you revisit a page.

• Quick Navigation — Click any saved highlight to jump directly to it on the original page.

• Organized Library — Browse all your highlights in a clean popup interface, grouped by page.

• Privacy-First — All data stays locally in your browser. No accounts, no cloud sync, no tracking.

• Lightweight — Minimal permissions, fast performance, zero bloat.

How to Use
1. Select any text on any webpage
2. Right-click and choose "Save to Highlighter"
3. Your highlight is saved and appears with a yellow background
4. Click the extension icon to view all your saved highlights
5. Click any highlight to jump back to the original page

Keyboard Shortcuts

• Alt+S — Save selected text as a highlight
• Alt+F — Open Trace popup

All your data stays private and local in your browser. You don't need to sign up.