Notate

Notate is a free research highlighter designed to centralize and organize information from across the web. It allows users to capture highlights from webpages, YouTube videos, and PDFs, then review and work with that content in one place. Its primary purpose is to streamline research workflows and make it easier to turn scattered reading and viewing into structured, searchable knowledge.

Key features include browser-based highlighting for articles and web content, timestamped highlights for YouTube videos, and PDF annotation, all of which can be synced directly to Notion or Obsidian. Notate automatically organizes highlights with source links, making it simple to revisit original context. The built-in AI chat is grounded in your collected highlights, enabling you to query, summarize, and synthesize your own research rather than generic web data. This combination of capture, organization, and AI-assisted analysis reduces manual note-taking and speeds up the process of extracting insights.