Looking for a highlighting-notes-organized-storage app of some sort
reddit / selfhosted

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ORRAgain · 2023-12-08 15:25

Hey guys, I'm having a little trouble articulating this simply.

I'd like to be reading something, ideally on my Android phone, and
when I see something I want to remember later (*not* the entire
article) I'd like to be able to highlight it and, in as few steps
possible, store that line or paragraph in a doc or database somewhere
(self-hosted) with a link to the source (URL, article title, file
name, whatever) automatically added.

I think the closest example I can think of is the feature in Google
Books where you can highlight text in a book and it will automatically
be saved in a 'notes' doc stored in your GDrive under the
book/document title. But in addition to wanting to self-host instead
of use Google products I also want to be able to highlight and store
text from anywhere (especially Wallabag), not just eBooks.

Right now I'm highlighting text and using the share popup to share to
an Obsidian doc and then going back and copying the link/title and
returning to the Obsidian doc to paste that. If I'm using Chrome it
does give the option to share the text with a source link but this
option is not there when highlighting from an article in Wallabag or a
downloaded PDF. Plus I'd like to get away from Chrome soon, too.

Does this exist? Am I overlooking something very obvious? Do I have to
make it myself? Any help appreciated.

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LastTreestar · 2023-12-08 21:54

Trilium with web-clipping???

https://github.com/zadam/trilium

https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/trilium-web-
clipper/dfhgmnfclbebfobmblelddiejjcijbjm