Notes & highlights

Select any text on a page you're browsing and a small toolbar appears, offering two ways to save it alongside Summarize and Explain: Create note and Highlight. They look similar but serve different purposes.

Highlighting a passage

Highlighting marks the exact passage you selected. Come back to the page later and it's still there, colored on the page itself, no need to remember where it was.

• Add an optional note to a highlight afterward, to explain why it mattered.
• Change its color to categorize at a glance.
• Every highlight also becomes a node in your Knowledge Graph, linked back to the page it came from.

If a highlighted quote appears more than once on a page, Trace uses the text immediately before your selection to find the right occurrence when re-marking it.

Writing a note

A note is freeform text about the page in general, your own words, not tied to a specific passage. Use it for a takeaway, a question, or a reminder that doesn't map to one exact quote.

Which one to use

• Highlight when you want to mark and re-find a specific sentence or quote.
• Note when you're writing your own thoughts about the page as a whole.

Both show up in their own tab (Notes, Highlights) next to the AI sidebar, scoped to whichever page you currently have open.

Sharing with a team

If you're a member of an organization, any highlight can be shared into a Space so teammates see the same annotated passage, alongside shared pages, documents, and artifacts.

Next steps

• Knowledge Graph for how highlights connect to everything else you've read.
• Memory & search for how indexed pages are stored and searched.
• Personal memory for the separate system that extracts facts about *you*, not page content.