Highlight web readings and PDFs

Create a useful excerpt

Choose a semantic colour, attach a label and add an annotation. The web anchor or PDF page rectangle remains tied to its exact source identity. In Composer, creating a mark or clicking its highlighted text opens the same fixed editor for colour, note, folder, Highlight Settings and deletion; private changes save automatically and Escape closes only the transient editor.

1. Select a passage or draw a PDF rectangle.
2. Choose a colour; in Composer, use the fixed highlight editor immediately or reopen it from the rendered passage.
3. Add a label, note or research folder. The private source workspace saves the change automatically.

Palette and folders

Highlight Settings puts the optional selected-text action popup first. Turn it off to hide Ratdolt actions in Composer and local PDF without disabling ordinary selection. The palette begins with Important, Question, Evidence and Reference; add, rename, recolour or remove entries to keep between one and 12 visually distinct semantic colours, while existing marks retain removed colours.

Cross-folder synchronization starts on. Turn it off to give as many as 40 research folders their own named palette while unfiled work and folders without an override inherit the global fallback. Use global fallback removes only the selected override, not the global palette or existing marks.

1. Choose All tools → Highlight Settings, or choose Settings from a Composer/PDF selection bar.
2. Edit the global palette, or turn folder synchronization off and choose a research folder.
3. Save explicitly; Composer and PDF use the resolved palette for future actions.

Share a cross-source folder snapshot

Open one highlight folder in Research and choose whether its nested folders belong in the snapshot. Ratdolt freezes the current web and explicitly saved account-PDF excerpts into one unlisted read-only link; labels, notes, colours, folder paths, credited web URLs and exact PDF SHA-256/page identities travel with it.

The bearer URL is shown only when created because Ratdolt stores its digest, not the reusable link. Later folder edits are private and do not rewrite that immutable page; create another snapshot when a newer edition should be shared, and revoke either edition independently from Research.

1. Open Research → Highlight folders and expand the folder to share.
2. Review Include nested folders, then confirm Create unlisted snapshot.
3. Copy the one-time link, inspect its visible boundary, and revoke it from Folder snapshots when access should end.