Tutorials:

Install the browser extension

Notes are placed on web pages with the YellowNotes browser extension. Go to Downloads and install it for your browser. The extension is free to install and use.

When it is installed you will see a small, semi-transparent control panel in the upper-left corner of web pages. You can leave it as it is for now.

Log in

You can read notes without an account, but to create notes you need one. Log in with your login provider; registration is free.

Write and send your first YellowNote

using the web page

You don't have to login to YellowNotes application to make a YellowNote
    new note
  1. Open any web page you find useful, for example an article you are reading.
    2. new note form
  2. Highlight a sentence you want to comment on, then right-click it. (On a touch screen: press and hold.)
  3. In the context menu choose YellowNotes and pick plain text as the type of note.
  4. Write why the passage matters to you, and save the note.

Write and save your first YellowNote

using the web page

You don't have to login to YellowNotes application to make a YellowNote
  1. Open any web page you find useful, for example an article you are reading.
  2. Highlight a sentence you want to comment on, then right-click it. (On a touch screen: press and hold.)
  3. In the context menu choose YellowNotes and pick plain text as the type of note.
  4. Write why the passage matters to you, and save the note.

using the extention

  1. Open any web page you find useful, for example an article you are reading.
  2. Highlight a sentence you want to comment on, then right-click it. (On a touch screen: press and hold.)
  3. In the context menu choose YellowNotes and pick plain text as the type of note.
  4. Write why the passage matters to you, and save the note.

Reload the page: your note is still there, attached to the passage you highlighted. Write two or three more notes on other pages about the same subject — you will need them in step 6.

No extension yet? You can also write a note on the website itself with New note.

Find your notes again

Open My notes. Every note you have written is listed here, with the page it belongs to. Switch between the notes view and the table view to see the two ways of browsing them.

Create a topic

A topic is a named collection of notes. Open My topics, choose + Create a new topic, and give it a name and a short description of the subject your notes are about.

6. Put your notes in the topic

Go back to one of the pages where you wrote a note. Open the note's menu bar and select your new topic. Do the same for the other notes from step 3.

Open the topic from My topics to check that the notes are listed under Notes.

Ask AI about your topic

Open AI chat, select your topic in the topic picker, and ask a question about the subject. The answer is based on the notes in the topic you selected — the material you chose and annotated.

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