Highlights and instant notes

Grab a passage from any app with one shortcut and let CogniPage file it for you.

Sometimes you want to keep a specific passage rather than leave it to dwell-time. Select it in any application and press one shortcut — CogniPage saves it, titles it, summarises it, files it and links it to what you already know.

Shortcut H on macOS · CtrlH on Windows

Using it

  1. Select the text

    In a browser, a PDF reader, a document, an email — anywhere text can be selected.

  2. Press the shortcut

    A small confirmation appears. If nothing was selected, it tells you so — select something and press again.

  3. Find it in Notes

    The passage is saved as a note, with the original source text kept alongside anything you later write yourself.

What AI does with it

Shortly after a highlight is saved, and only if you are signed in with credits available:

  • It is given a title and a short summary.
  • It is filed into the right folder, creating one if nothing fits.
  • The concepts it touches are extracted and linked to concepts in your other notes, which is what the Knowledge Map draws.

Without an account it is still saved, verbatim, in your notes — just unfiled and untitled.

Apps that do not expose a selection

A few applications publish no selection to the accessibility layer. There, CogniPage falls back to copying: it saves your clipboard, issues a copy, reads the result, and puts your original clipboard back. This happens only at the moment you press the shortcut, never in the background.

The shortcut is not working

Another application has probably claimed H first — whoever registers it first wins, and your OS does not report the clash. Quit the other app, or capture the same passage by reading it in a tracked window instead. The rest of CogniPage is unaffected.

Something here wrong, missing or unclear? Tell us — it gets fixed.