What is the best textmarker for permanent highlights?

Dancer18

Every now and then I would like to permanently mark passages of text. That is, save the page as a bookmark and find the markings again when I open it again.

I have tried a few extensions, but none was satisfactory.

Which one would you recommend? Or is the feature available directly from Vivaldi?

Pesala

@Dancer18 It is already available in Vivaldi.

Select text on a page, copy "Link to Highlight" from the selected text context menu, and create a bookmark with that URL.

This method does not seem to work on all pages, however, e.g. it works on this forum, but not on the Blog.

Dancer18

@Pesala Thanks for the quick reply! So it's new in the latest snapshot.
The RC is already released. So I'll wait until the 5.4 stable.

Aaron

@Dancer18 said in What is the best textmarker for permanent highlights?:

5.4 stable

that is already released in the blog

Dancer18

Ok. I upgraded Vivaldi and found the context menu item.
However, I struggled with using it.
First, I highlighted any text and clicked on the item.
Then I bookmarked the page.
After opening the bookmark no highlight is visible.

So I prefer to have visible text highlighting, maybe yellow.
That doesn't happen so far.
Maybe it is a beta feature?

Pesala

@Dancer18 It works for me:

Highlight any text
Right-click
Copy link to highlight
Bookmark page
Paste copied link as the URL of the new bookmark

If you just bookmark the page, that is what you will get:

http://www.softerviews.org/vivaldi.html#LatestSnapshot

The full code is like this:

http://www.softerviews.org/vivaldi.html#LatestSnapshot:~:text=Add-,Link%20to%20highlight,-Added%20Web%20panel

Dancer18

@Pesala Ok. What if I want to highlight more than one text segment?

And I'd like to see the highlighting before any further steps.

There are some addons for it. However, I know only one addon that highlights permanently until removing.
That is programmed by my son - for Firefox.

Dancer18

Until I find a better one, I have installed Super Simple Highlighter and will test it.