LANcom Technology Blog

The Awesome Highlighter is an interesting site that allows you to highlight the important text on a website, so you can look back on it later or share it with others.

Here is how it works:

1. You go to The Awesome Highlighter homepage and enter the website that you would like to highlight (no registration required)
2. The Awesome Highlighter shows you to your selected webpage and allows you to highlight text on the page with a range of colours. You can even add post-it type notes to the page.
3. When you are finished you click the Done button and are taken to a page that gives you a hyperlink to your highlighted page. If you want anyone else to see your highlighted page you can simply send them this link. From the Done page you can also click: email and send someone just the text that you highlighted, or copy to clipboard and copy all the text that you highlighted to your clipboard.
4. The Awesome Highlighter site will also keep track of all the pages that you highlight. If you click your lighted pages on the homepage it will show you a list of all the pages you have highlights on. You can then view, remove, or edit any of these pages.

To see our example of a highlighted page click here

To try out The Awesome Highlighter for yourself click here

Note: You can use this site in both Internet Explorer and Firefox, but it seems to work best in Firefox. The add a note feature does not seem to work in Internet Explorer 7.