Highlight what matters. Let AI shape your notes.

Turn your highlights from web pages, online PDFs, and videos into notes grounded in the source.

Highlight What Moves You

Highlight web content

Select a passage and save it as a highlight in one click. Return to the source to read it in context.

A highlighted passage in a web article with the MagicGourd highlight popover and side panel

Highlight PDF text and regions

Highlight text in online PDFs, or select an area to capture a figure, chart, or other detail.

A region highlighted in the MagicGourd PDF reader

Highlight video frames

On YouTube and Bilibili, click Highlight to save the current frame.

A saved video frame shown in the MagicGourd side panel

Enhance the Note

From highlights to a note

AI brings together the source, your highlights, and your notes to create a standalone note you can edit, with numbered references to the source.

Source highlights and the enhanced note’s core claims, with evidence references numbered 1 and 2

Ask the Highlight

Go deeper into a highlight

Ask AI to explain a passage, examine a claim, or explore an idea. Ask follow-up questions in the same conversation, with your highlight as the focus.

The source passage with the yellow highlight quoted in the conversation
The side panel conversation anchored to the selected highlight

Collections and search

Organize by topic and quickly find the source.

Sync across devices

Keep your library in sync across computers.

Works offline

Keep highlighting and taking notes offline.

Export anytime

Export as Markdown or a long image.

Your material. Your control.

  • AI reads only when you ask

    Enhance the Note and Ask the Highlight read the page only when you click. Nothing reads on your behalf in the background.

  • Never trained on your data

    Your highlights, notes, and other content are never used to train models, nor handed to any third party for that purpose.

  • Take your material with you

    Easily import into Notion, Obsidian, and other note apps, or share on social platforms.

Your material. Your control.

AI reads only when you ask

Enhance the Note and Ask the Highlight read the page only when you click. Nothing reads on your behalf in the background.

Never trained on your data

Your highlights, notes, and other content are never used to train models, nor handed to any third party for that purpose.

Take your material with you

Easily import into Notion, Obsidian, and other note apps, or share on social platforms.

Better notes. Less effort.

Unlimited highlights and notes. Free forever.

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